Damn, what’s the story on this? Why didn’t y’all invest?

Product Manager

Hey just met the mohapatra for my university’s orientation also invested in him series-g

Analyst

Not me, but a VC friend of mine mentioned Scaler has been their biggest miss in the last few years 
 It definitely one of the better outcomes

@AlphaGrindset Oooo yes yes, they popped off during 2021 when packages were skyrocketing. 
  
 They were busy selling shovels during the gold rush. I’m not sure if they are doing well rn as well.

Corporate Strategist

Arkham Intel could’ve had a big exit also had chance to lead seed and series-a

One of my elder cousin's VC friend told me about Xpressbees

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VCs of Grapevine: Which company did you end up passing on but it went on to do really well anyway?

VCs of Grapevine: Which company did you end up passing on but it went on to do really well anyway?- Grapevine

VC here. Doing this for fun.
Don't take all views seriously.

Comment a startup's name, I'll share if it's promising or whatever I know

Thoughts on the Grapevine app so far. 
Would you invest in Grapevine if you had the opportunity?
Do you think there is potential?

What do you feel about Grapevine? Is there potential to become the next big startup?

Software Engineer

VC with 5+ yrs of exp - AMA

Community Manager

Welcome to News Discussion's Private Community

Which Indian VC investor is a no-go and why? 
Share in person’s name - fund - reason(s) format if possible

Which VCs to avoid

Founder

As reports suggest that grapevine is raising money from Peak Fifteen (previously Sequoia), will they allow negative posts about their portfolio companies on the platform?

Peak Fifteen has a record of controlling the media narratives for their portfolio companies before, hope they don't kill this platform!

A thought on grapevine 💭

Product Owner

AMA- 15 yrs exp across consulting, VC & Growth stage company. Now a founder

Did sequoia have an ownership target? How does your team and you feel post the funding? What can we expect as a next step? How soon will the monetisation bug kick in?

https://entrackr.com/2023/10/exclusive-peak-xv-acquires-over-21-stake-in-grapevine/

Grapevine funding analysis

The Startup that you had an offer from but did not join, and then it went big? (Let's take a word from VCs, how they like to use anti portfolio lists on their sites - cos they got an opportunity to enter but missed)

What's your anti-startup

Growth Manager

This platform is now gonna scale, but isn’t 21% too much? Thoughts pls.

PeakXV holds over 21% of Grapevine

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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.

Investment Associate

This influencer with a massive following on YouTube laid me & my team off within a week of hiring since apparently they have deferred their Series A. Bro, why didn't you figure it out before I joined. They bumped off Sourcing, D2C sales head, Finance, Offline Sales head, etc as well. Apparently - they still have the HR head drawing the salary of probably more than 50L pa since they need to build 'culture' for a team size of less than 25 ppl now.

Business model: D2C business launching products in partnership with Influencer to leverage their following

Founders couldn't Figure Out fund raise

Bro there's Sham in the name.  What else did you expect.

Sales Manager

Consultant

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https://anonymfile.com/NEEXl/tiger-global-draft-of-new-yorker-story-doing-the-rounds-in-nyc.pdf

TLDR: Tiger Global may pass soon.

Leaked NewYorker Article on Tiger Global

A few summary points:
- LP risk is over exposed to VC funds (Tiger, for these LPs)
- Tiger has had abysmal investments and returns these last few years
- They've actively looking to pass on their assets to buyers where they can find them 
- Lee Fixel, the most prolific investor they had left a few years back
- The fund has been led by Scott Shleifer; who has reported to been an alcoholic, hosts drug parties, and invests with very little DD/deep dive.

All in all, this is scary stuff. With Softbank and Tiger both seeing difficult times, this feels like the Lehman moment for the VC industry.

These days, I can't help but keep on thinking about post white collar labour economy and it's implication on our day to  day life.... 

We can keep on dwelling in our wishful cocoon but fact remains that world is going to be vastly different in 4-5 years vis a viz today... 

In that scenario, let's us discuss some scenario :
1. What will be impact on rental yields of tier  1 cities and consequently what will be overall impact on Indian real estate 
2. What would be impact on banking interest rates 
3. Where will you park your money in that scenario : Gold, Indian Equity , Big Tech Equity , FD, Real estate or Cash.. 

My opinion :
1. As high paying jobs for majority of people diminishes, Rental yields of tier 1 cities will come down thereby directly impacting real estate. This will result in huge NPA by those people who have taken loans for 20-30 years period. This will eventually bankrupt real estate developers thereby making real estate deflationary. 

2. We will begin to witness  overall a deflationary society where cost of services like Education, software, finance etc will drastically reduce. Moreover due to high NPAs,  banking interest rate will reduce. Home loans for tenure of 20-30 years will drastically reduce due to increased uncertainty. 

3. Gold has historically been inflation proof asset. However will it still be a good asset to invest into in a deflationary society?  What are things that will still hold value then? 

Don't you think current big techs will become East India Company of future indirectly controlling world's economy? 

I would love to know what do grapevine folks think about the same  !

Discussion about post white collar labour economics

Potential investor strategy for Grapevine, no?

Curious if anyone made a lot of money from their startups getting sold here on grapevine

Has your life changed? What do u do now?

Any people who were a part of a startup that got sold

Software Developer

Exclusive: Peak XV acquires over 21% stake in Grapevine

Program Manager

I'm starting a new company and am assembling a team, in all my previous startups had like 7 people working but now everyone is settled and few have retired coz made too much from the exits so back to assembling a new team :p

As in all my previous startups I paid an average of 40Lpa an 2-3% ESOPs to all the early team they made insane wealth. But now I'm thinking of going lower and meet the realities of the market rather than paying higher why not paying the market rate?

I have been taking multiple interviews and experienced this people consider higher salaries to be a lie they want to earn dirt-cheap salaries and don't trust themselves with what they deserve and in the end ended up mocking me. One of the senior people that I interviewed thought 3lakhs per month was very high no-one pays that much. Same goes for an intern who I decided to pay 1lakh per month thought it's not possible and ghosted me thinking I'm scamming him ( his job was to meet high profile people make connection with different founders by going to parties and events regularly )!

My new startup is not in crypto but in something unique!

What do you'll think should I pay people less as that's what they think they deserve?

Paying higher / lower in Indian Startup scene

Go ahead, ask if we pushed founders to commit fraud.

AMA: Worked at tier 2 VC - got in post a few years of workex and a tier 2 Indian uni

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