14: Lessons Learned From Investing in Public Markets with Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners

Shripati Acharya (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shripatiacharya/) and Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing partners at Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) sit together to discuss Shripati's early investment picks, lessons learned from investing in public markets, how founders can prepare themselves to build a successful company and more.Shripati Acharya, throughout his career, be it as a business lead at Cisco or as a co‐founder of Snapfish, the world's largest photo site acquired by HP or at Transarc, which was acquired by IBM, Shripati has combined his passion to build great teams, an extraordinary desire to excel and a keen eye for spotting the tales.Shripati has also worked alongside Mr Nandan Nilekani on the UIDAI project. Having spent substantial parts of working career in the United States and India addressing worldwide markets, Shripati brings a global management perspective. He enjoys the great outdoors and has hitchhiked through Europe and trekked the windswept mountains of the Himalayas and the Andes.Listen to the podcast to learn about0:52: How Shripati started investing in public markets1:55: Early picks & lessons learned from them4:15: Investing in Amazon & HDFC Bank8:15: A company's advantage is not just it’s product. There’s more to it...9:20: Lessons learned from public market investing that helped in private market investing10:30: Why public markets took long to realise the potential of SAAS companies?15:05: Product vs Service. What Scales?16:30: Lessons startup founders can learn from public market companies17:45: Why reading transcripts is a must for startup founders18:30: Amit's experience of MakeMyTrip’s transition from a private company to a public company21:20: How a company changes its strategy when it transitions from a private company to a public company23:00: Role of luck in investingFor transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/lessons-learned-investing-public-markets-shripati-acharya-managing-partner-prime-venture-partners/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/

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