Sajith Pai @sajithpai
VC @BlumeVentures, an early stage Indian tech fund. Writings on venture, PMF, India tech etc., at https://t.co/eqQ9bnkDwL. DM me at https://t.co/LeNrPIenmG linktr.ee/sajithpai Delhi Joined May 2008-
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Latest issue of my very irregular newsletter drops. I look back at the making of the Indus Valley Report, the books i read (with short notes) and my fave podcast episodes. (If you are into venture nerdery then you should subscribe - there is a fair bit of obsession with venture…
The best consumer AI hardware product is severely underhyped: The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. If you wear glasses, you should try them. The most useful product is the one that is with you. Mine cost ~$350 with transitions rx lenses.
This is one of the best examples of the strategic use of working capital i have read. Getting your customers to pay your early, and then using that neg working capital / float to get crazy good deals from your vendors. I believe Trader Joe's does similar stuff too. This is…
I like this format of comparing / analysing other strategy frameworks / reads to his own Playing to Win by @RogerLMartin - Would love one for 7 Powers, which is what Silicon Valley loves, but which i think is a far more complicated framework than Roger Martin's Playing to Win.
I like this format of comparing / analysing other strategy frameworks / reads to his own Playing to Win by @RogerLMartin - Would love one for 7 Powers, which is what Silicon Valley loves, but which i think is a far more complicated framework than Roger Martin's Playing to Win.
An hr before! With @bbharadwaj and @gupsho
Finally met @deepakshenoy in 'Luru - we have followed each other on twitter and DMd occasionally but had never met till today. Such a fascinating eclectic convo - Gurgaon and algo trading, venture-backed startups and SME IPOs, investing podcasts etc., and a lot of market(moving)…
Such a good piece by my colleague @SeekingN0rth on IPO marketing best practices as shared by CMOs at RateGain and MamaEarth. Every founder and CMO of a late growth stage co should read this. For a founder has only two products to sell - there is the customer product, and there is…
Such a good piece by my colleague @SeekingN0rth on IPO marketing best practices as shared by CMOs at RateGain and MamaEarth. Every founder and CMO of a late growth stage co should read this. For a founder has only two products to sell - there is the customer product, and there is…
From @sajithpai’s 2018 post: “If engineers from IIT Delhi & IIT Bombay were the team behind Flipkart and Ola, the poster boys of startups catering to India 1, it will likely be engineers from IIT Kanpur & IIT Kharagpur who will find the definitive India2 startups.”
From @sajithpai’s 2018 post: “If engineers from IIT Delhi & IIT Bombay were the team behind Flipkart and Ola, the poster boys of startups catering to India 1, it will likely be engineers from IIT Kanpur & IIT Kharagpur who will find the definitive India2 startups.”
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51K Followers 3K Following Startups, jokes, kids and cricket (my cricket tweets are tagged #Cricket, so please mute that if you don't like the sport)
Rahul Mathur @Rahul_J_Mathur
83K Followers 2K Following Now: On a short break || Prev: Founder @VerakInsurance (acq. by ID) || Kindly DM on https://t.co/OWyPJw7hrU || Views are my own
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Karthik Reddy @BKartRed
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12K Followers 3K Following Flaneur, Fallibilist, Product @JarAppHQ, Past: VP-Product @Paytm, Co-Founder @getshifu (acquired by @paytm), Glass half full kind of guy.
Raj Kunkolienkar @kunksed
32K Followers 852 Following always climbing a steep learning curve. ai explorations @StoaHQ.
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Dr Ritesh Malik @drriteshmalik
38K Followers 3K Following Founder @innov8cowork (sold to @oyorooms) @wef @YGLvoices 2022 @fortuneindia 40Under40 Founder & Trustee @plakshauniv @IndiaToday Next 100 @ycombinator alum
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It’s hard not to feel inspired when you’re working with a brand like @BlumeVentures. Every day, thanks to the nature of my work, I come across such incredible and seemingly impossible stories about entrepreneurship from the early 2010’s in India. And I’m glad people are…
Current Morning Ritual Some @fredagainagain1 🎵 + this new book by @BlumeVentures (love it so far) Kudos @BKartRed 🙌
We are thrilled to announce that Lambdatest has made it to the Global 100 list and ranked 25th in the top development products! This recognition is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our team, and we couldn't have done it without the support of our customers. We are…
From 1840 to 1850, private Britons cumulatively invested 40% of British GDP into the country’s first rail network Does anyone else find it weird how nobody ever writes about this? This would be the equivalent of US VCs spending like, $10 trillion dollars on a single thing today
@sidin @sajithpai @humanipo_app if you need more inspiration mike-merrill.com but be careful of the drag rights and the hostile take overs :)
@fahdananta @chudson, @rrhoover, Morning Brew, @firstround Review, @sajithpai, Capital Call, @pmarca. Also really like @PitchBook’s reports but they’re not exactly newsletters.
The point of a tech company is not to write code. It is to convert that code into $$$.
Normal people: listen to music when they work out in the gym Me: listening to Indus Valley Report while working out at the gym Neighbor: watching IPL while working out at the gym 🙄 Have one weird little Gym 1, Gym 2 and Gym 3 happening here 😉 @sajithpai @BlumeVentures
@sajithpai @firstround Such a valuable piece on PMF, for #B2B Saas companies....
I learned this late in life: Being confident doesn’t come from being tough and persevering. It comes from feeling safe to explore failure. Knowing you have a physical home to come back to - that there is enough - and an emotional home - that you are enough.
Mercedes India in Nov, 2022: SIP's are my biggest competitor! in Apr, 2024: best month, best quarter, best year, ever! FWIW: total amount invested through SIP grew 28% YoY.
@sajithpai Precisely what we have been experimenting lately. We pay suppliers in advance and incentivise our customers for early payment (1.25% discount per month of early payment) i.e. more than what they could get a line of credit for (approx 1%). Greatly increases ROCE if done right!
@sajithpai @firstround Thanks for sharing this. Diving into it straight away. Grateful for chat offer. Definitely writing to you with specific ask.
@sajithpai @firstround Genuinely one question, Sir Why are you not writing a book; Your long form essays are banger; Just compile and publish; keep it open source though.🙌 Nice read this one, as usual ☝️
Interesting chart from the India Rises conference @ColumbiaSIPA
Delhi only has meet-ups when I’m back?? 💅💁🏻♀️
hello friends me and my brother @pingrishabh will be playing OUR FIRST EVER CLUB GIG in a back-to-back this Thursday at Bira Taproom, CyberHub. we'll be opening for some incredible DJs and while we're nervous asf, we couldn't be more excited about this. please do come
@sajithpai Another good example is Symphony in India upto mid 2010s - 50%+ gross, 20%s PAT, -ve WC for a mfg co. It's a shame a lot of things went wrong post
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