Episode 43: Shrishti Sahu- Investing in early-stage founders
About Shrishti Sahu:
My next guest on The One Percent Project is Shrishti Sahu. Shrishti is the Managing Partner at SSV. SSV is a sector-agnostic family-office investing in early-stage companies. Through SSV, she has invested in 30 companies such as Plum, Kutumb, Chingari, Rupifi, Jar and 10Club.
Before setting up SSV, she built two businesses, worked with a PE fund and led Facebook's South Asia Startup Program.
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In this conversation, she talks about:
How has waking up at 5 am enabled her?
Being a Generalist vs Specialist.
How has writing empowered her?
Leading people and businesses in towns & villages vs metropolitan cities.
Why did she plan to become an Angel Investor?
Her decision framework for startup investments & how to build a startup portfolio?
How can early-stage founders differentiate themselves?
What got her into the crypto space?
Some Key Highlights:
If you want to have a non-linear or exponential career, you can't take the same path as everyone. What has served me well is that I have picked up different things and gone deep into them. Some have interested me further, and in some, I lost interest. But each exploration has taught me something new.
As a leader, driving team performance is more important than driving individual goals and outcomes.
Angel investing is not about trying to protect your downside but trying to make the upside as large as possible.
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