What happened 😂 
 Would love to hear stories

They talk like they’ve peaked in life and probably have because it’s probably a downhill from hereon with that attitude. Yeah, sure, Mr. KnowItAll we’ll talk when you have your head out of your butt

Investment Associate

Product Manager

Could be true but most aren’t like this. The ones with the entitlement issues could be angel investors.

I’ve faced this issue with early age investors. Can’t believe such people are the face/future of legacy funds

Keep reminding yourself. Chota admi gundai Karta hai, karne do

Founder

At the end of the day, they are not founders, if they had some great idea they wouldn't be a VC, rather a founder.

Not really, i would never be a founder its not for me. But I really like seeing new businesses and making money, hence why VC is an attractive choice

Analyst

Software Engineer

Kaleen Bhaiya, garam karke chodd mat de? Bata bhi de kya hai tea.

Brand Marketing Manager

Venture Capital

Recently met a few VCs. Why are so many of them so stuck up and have entitlement issues

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VCs- Grapevine

A masterpiece 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

Corporate Strategist

VCs then vs VCs now

Is this behaviour by VCs very common in Indian startup ecosystem? Have heard of more such stories from founder friends

Project Manager

I'm hearing some horror stories of pressure and unreasonable expectations coming from VC's even at the seed stage. Pre and post funding. 

Do you folks have stories to share about this. Especially w.r.t. interaction with associates with zero business experience giving Gyan !.

Founders on here....what's the worst VC experience that you've had ?

Kya dikat hai bhai, udane do paisa. Tumhare thodi hai. 

Good firms genuinely perform well and return money. The ecosystem is not forgiving -- you don't survive very long if you don't create any big wins. It's an extremely high stress job with very little WLB. You do make money but it comes at a cost.

Layoffs are sad but at least those jobs existed in the first place? They wouldn't without VC money. India's VC scene is extremely young and it'll take time before we produce a Google. Entrepreneurs are not always right, they are not always nice either; but they definitely are courageous.

Unpopular Opinion: VCs get a lot of crap for no reason

VCs kill many startups with unrealistic targets that the main problem. Not every business is designed to give ultra quick returns VCs want . They ruin well potential startups

I'll start - One of the older VC firms with an office in Indiranagar (also probably planning to shut their scout vehicle fund after a few employee exits) reels of toxicity at the helm. GP who comes from a rich family has the habit of arm twisting employees and putting them down even on the smallest of the mistakes. What's your toxic VC story?

Let's discuss toxic VCs

Founder’s Office

Got some tea that Jodo has laid off several people today.

Layoffs at Jodo

Kya matlab email ka subject- " Jodo se Todo " tha?

Growth Manager

Link for actual thread and comments - 

https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/15p8qrx/my_0100m0_in_5_years_story/

Must read for startup folks today

Computer Operator

Early stage venture capital does not require any complex financial skills. It is majorly about people skills and business acumen. It’s quite well paid for what the exact work is. That’s why, I feel like that it is being gate kept by folks from some colleges (IITs especially). 

What do you think?

Is early stage VC being heavily gate kept?

Tiger, Elevation and Matrix backed fintech startup has started layoff.  CTO has left and they have started firing in business roles with the largest cuts in tech. 

- Bad product fitment and loses money on every account
- Core team has started leaving
- Even got an opportunity to see their office space available for rent
- Classic case of poor culture and no actual product
- Founders travel to USA/london on trips
- Horrible place to work as a girl

Got this from one of their devs.  


STAY Away!!

JODO - Silent layoffs Started!!!

Apparently naming people is against guidelines so I'll stick to saying avoid the company. Highly unprofessional behaviour towards entrepreneurs.

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Product Owner

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- Most VCs are fraud, they never make any money and keep shifting from one fund to another to hide that they never made anyone any money. 
They also have usually no real input to add. 
They are no subject matter except negotiations which too mostly they just prey upon any founders. 

It's a thankless asset class. Most founders will always hate it as they will never get a dollar and most investors hate it as they will never net a dollar. 

Never chase VC, they are supposed to find opportunity .. Chasing them is useless, they judge you for it. 
So treat them from first day like your ex. Gf/bf. 

- Most tech startup founders are fraud,  they never make any money and keep shifting from one idea to another to hide they never made anyone any money. 
it usually takes 20 years to make a real $100 million dollar revenue company, but 20 months to be a unicorn. 
Any unicorn today is priced according to what they would make after 5-10 years... Yeah right. 

- Making real money is hard. Making fake money is easy. 
99% of startup Esops are fraud
If the company is homerun, then they won't get you stock easy. 
If the company is maybe homerun, they won't give you cash easily. 
If you get free cash and esops, just imagine it's an 18 month project. 

- Most of the humblebrags are fraud as half of them don't even understand the fine print of what they think is real money but not. 

- Most of the people who usually ask for change have no intention for it. They want to be seen as leaders, change is hard, negotiated and cried for. 

- you only live once. Go hard.. No one like people who have too much to talk but nothing to show.

Some observations after 10+ years of being in the system

Image source: https://twitter.com/f6ary/status/1712505898688528719 

I used to work with one and always thought he was like this wanted to know if anyone had any experiences like below with them here?

Anyone had any experiences like this with VCs in india?

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Hey everyone. 

Thought I could do an AMA. A bit about me - have 4 years of work experience and graduated from a non engineering college. Was at a startup before (from Series B to Series D) before becoming a VC

Personally look at consumer and B2B investments here 

Happy to answer any questions around life as a junior VC, startup ecosystem, career growth etc.

AMA: I work at a large VC Fund focusing on early stage investments

This is the biggest problem with VC ecosystem 4 yoe kids taking calls on experienced, hardworking founders. Dude first learn the game then invest , judge people playing the game. VCs know nothing about how to run startups. Unless they have been entrepreneurs themselves. IMO It's a colossal waste of talent to become a VC for young PPL.

Know a cousin who is a founder. Tells me with experience that VCs in India only operate in FOMO. Unless you tell them another VC is looking to invest in you, they will NEVER invest in you. 

They need fomo to operate 

Only exception is ex CXO founders (high profile), where they know they'll get funded so it's fastest fingers first!!

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