Ganesh Ramakrishna

Update: it worked! Validation for the much-maligned date-me doc In addition to being a great partner to Rishi and almost-sis-in-law, Esha is a 🔥 founder. She built an AI sales coach & raised $60M! I promised to tweet if they got engaged 😛 try it- yoodli.ai

@gokulr Have you factored QSBS in this assessment? I think QSBS is valid only for US C-Corp. Of course this is a non issue for companies that don’t have US based early teams.

INDIA AS A SOFWARE IPO DESTINATION Just had my first convo with a founder whose primary customers are in the US and who has a clear line of sight to $100m ARR in 2-3 years, but is actively planning to move their parent company domicile to India from the US. Why? A software company with $100m in annual revenues and 20% EBITDA margins will be lionized in India, get a lot of press and analyst coverage, and go public at $1-2b valuation. But the same company might be several years away from an IPO in the US, if ever. (Ironically, earlier this morning, I spoke with a $125M ARR company in the US with 25% EBITDA margin and growing 10% YoY. IPO is the farthest thing from their mind - I should suggest the India option to them..) Ironically, the valuation accorded to a tech company in the Indian stock markets, at almost any revenue level, might be higher than that in the US, because (a) Indian retail investors are hungry for tech (b) many Indian mutual funds have a mandate to invest a certain % of their assets in tech and (c) the number of public tech companies in India is low. So far, it has been mostly Indian tech companies “building for India” (that is, b2c for the Indian market, eg Zomato, PayTM, etc) that have gone public in India. But now we’re going to see a wave of global software companies going public in India. It’s inevitable. It will be a net loss for the US public markets but a shot in the arm for the Indian stock exchanges and will likely lead to more global capital flowing into India.

@VCBrags Prediction: our guy is guaranteed to throw a pick six.

"We're sitting on lots of dry powder. We want a founder that can hit a home run. They need to be comfortable with a lot of heavy lifting. We have a real shot on goal here." - guy working in VC that has never played a sport in his life

@BeingPractical +1

It's been 20+ years that I have graduated from Engineering... There are times.. I wake up in middle of night in panic, thinking there are exams tomorrow and I have not prepared! Does that happen with anyone else?

@NorthStandGang Not to mention the online tickets have to picked up from a location that is 15-20 minute drive from the match venue. Why? Who benefits?

As a Cricket fan, would it be wrong to feel that the average Indian Cricket fan is almost Looked Down Upon by authorities that be? Do any of you feel the same? Isnt Indian Cricket the superpower that it is owing to the Average Indian Cricket Fan? Treat us right. About Time.

@pitdesi Kitchen Indian cooking ready (spices, kitchenware)

How would you get more Indians to use Airbnb?

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(1/2) A hard and unsolved problem ✅ An amazing co-founding team ✅ ✅ Pilot customers who have successfully implemented our solutions ✅ ✅ ✅ Presenting @LyricTechnology If you want to build a next-generation AI-first supply chain, let's jam! 🚀🚀🚀

Prediction: In less than two years, every piece of content - text, audio, or video will have to clarify if it's AIG (AI-Generated) or non-AIG.

@patio11 Did you tip the robot?

We went out to Coco’s, a family restaurant chain (Americans: think Denny’s), and were surprised to find our waiter was a robot / tablet integrated system.

@chrishlad @TrungTPhan It’s more complicated than that. His mother served on the board of United Way alongside the CEO of IBM. His mom very likely got her board seat thanks to old money connections. reddit.com/r/todayilearne…

Bill Gates got lucky. With an IBM deal he signs in 1980. Here's the hidden truth about the rise of Microsoft 🧵

For Founders: - Keep looking for the snakes and ladders in your startup - Find ways to add ladders and remove snakes - Talk about your snakes and ladders openly, build trust

For Candidates: - Ask the founder about their snakes and ladders - Pick startups with long ladders and short snakes - Run away from startups that do not acknowledge the snakes

Simple mental model to assess startups. A startup journey is like playing Snake & Ladders. For every stakeholder - The ups and downs are guaranteed - The startup will have wild swings in position (especially in the early days) [1/3] #startups

For the #Wordle fans out there, the best Initial Guesses are Salet, Reast, Trace, Crate and Slate - mathematically proven! Great work by @dbertsim and his colleague, Alex Paskov. Check out the paper here: wordleopt.com

When a talented and hyper focused team is struggling through something, they are innovating. The pain is part of the journey .

@HarryStebbings Completely agree. If there is friction to get the product functional ( training, data, system access) then use enterprise sales. If a segment of your audience does not have that friction => PLG is just a shortcut.

One of the biggest misnomers about SaaS company building and GTM today: You are either product-led growth (PLG) or traditional enterprise sales. It is not that binary. It is possible to do both at the same time.

@sudheenair @mim_djo @thoughtspot When can we see such attractive pricing for pre-seed or seed-stage startups who want to embed TS as part of their solutions? Current pricing is not optimized for startups.

@auren Lucky for us in US cities. In India, Uber does not show up and still charge the cancellation fee.

wait times for Uber/Lyft (what they tell you vs the truth)

@guptajiten How about taking the first flight out and the last flight in. It might help avoid traffic more often than not.

I wish Bangalore has Helicopter facility to Airport. Almost 2.5 hrs to reach to airport! Total waste of time. I would anyday pay for Helicopter facility to save my 2 hrs.