Sumanth Raghavendra
Contributor at The Ken
Building the world’s most loved presentation app Co-founder and CEO, https://t.co/RiZ0evPkG0 Co-founder, @thekenweb
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2 months ago |
linkedin.com | Sumanth Raghavendra
It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a community to raise a startup. It takes mavericks to build the future. After a decade of silent building, we're sharing the story of perhaps the most patient bet in startup history - a story of believers who remembered their own early days, when someone took a chance on their seemingly impossible dreams.
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2 months ago |
linkedin.com | Sumanth Raghavendra
Spoiler: This is not a story about unicorns. This is a story about crows. Shekhar Kirani of Accel Partners is not a good VC. To understand why, I need to tell you a story. If this were about startups and VCs, you might expect a unicorn tale. The tech world loves unicorns and other mythical creatures – magical beasts that leap fully-formed into billion-dollar valuations, pristine and gilded, soaring from obscurity to the heavens on rainbows of hype.
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May 10, 2024 |
saasboomi.org | Sumanth Raghavendra
There is a storm brewing and it answers to the name ‘AI’. Are SaaS companies in general, and Indian SaaS companies in particular, ready to face the Al apocalypse? “I am scared”Not the kind of words you would expect from one of India’s most celebrated SaaS founders. A person at the helm of a startup that has thousands of employees is a unicorn many times over and has well over $100m in ARR. But the man at the other end of the phone line had a point.
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Aug 8, 2023 |
saasboomi.org | Vinod Muthukrishnan |Sumanth Raghavendra
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”While these immortal lines from Charles Dickens can apply to many things in any age, they seem particularly apt for India SaaS in 2023. We are now at a liminal moment in time – a period of transformative transition.
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Dec 4, 2022 |
saasboomi.com | Sumanth Raghavendra
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Silicon Valley VCs now think Infosys and Cognizant are just "BPOs" prime for AI disruption? By that logic, shouldn't the likes of Palantir and Anduril - with their government contracts and services - also qualify as BPOs?
The #1 most "literally obvious" aspect about McKinsey is that it doesn't sell research, it sells "socially and politically acceptable change". Executives and politicians are paying for credibility aka CYA. No LLM or search engine, however good it might be, can ever offer that.
As an ex McKinsey consultant and now a VC, honestly #1 is absolutely obvious and buildable *today*. I’ve been tinkering with deep research and it’s literally obvious. If I was to quit VC and build something now, that would be it. If you’re building this and are in Europe, I’m
Just discussed this with a VC — more and more Indian founders in AI will focus on local investors when there is enough and more supply of great quality capital in their hood. Not surprising that people are choosing VC over YC.
Just discussed this with a founder yesterday — more and more US investors in AI will focus on local teams when there is enough and more supply of great quality in their hood. Not surprising that YC is doing the same.
