This is an audio podcast of a fireside chat with Dr. Vaibhav Agrawal, Associate Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, India at Startup Grind on 30th October, 2017.
Dr. Vaibhav Agrawal has an MBA from Stanford – before which we was an entrepreneur in India after qualifying as a doctor.
In this talk Vaibhav touches upon startups, talks about VC funding in general. He shares his and LSVP’s investment philosophy. And he express his own observations about how and why the Indian startup and VC markets differ from other markets in general and from the VC scene in USA/Silicon Valley in particular. He touches upon why a lot of the US investing and acquisitions often happen in the B2B space while India sees a lot of activity in the B2C space.
This fireside chat was conducted by Pranjal Jain at Oracle Office, Salcon Rasvilas, Delhi.
A bit about Vaibhav’s background:
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Further Reading:
Lightspeed Venture Partners (LSVP) wrote the first cheque of $500,000 for SnapChat – and I link here to a Quora answer about SnapChat Founder Evan Spiegel
Notes:
The name Vaibhav Agrawal is often misspelt as Vaibhav Aggarwal.