About Aviral Bhatnagar:
My next guest on The One Percent Project is Aviral Bhatnagar, Founder of “A Junior VC” Community and he is A Junior VC at Venture Highway. Aviral is a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Aviral’s Quora responses have more than 30M views and his start-up essays have led to the creation of the 20,000-member strong “A Junior VC” Community and earned him 170,000+ follower on LinkedIn.
In this conversation he talks about:
- Non-Linear Decision Making & How it has benefitted Aviral
- Building a community- A Junior VC, AJVC: Why & How?
- Views on the Indian Venture Capital Ecosystem
- What does intellectual honestly mean to Aviral and why is it important in a founder?
- How has Amazon been able to penetrate Bharat?
- Are Indian start-ups improvising or innovating?
- Aviral's views on investing in a bottom-up start-up
- How Amul & Haldirams have been able to build multi-billion businesses by listening to the customer at scale
Rapid Fire:
- One book or a blog that has made the most difference to you?
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, Harry Potter series and Alex Ferguson's biography.
- Hardest thing about your job?
- Your most favorite superhero?
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