Episode 25: Abhishek Nag- Building Internet Businesses

About Abhishek Nag:

My next guest on The One Percent Project is Abhishek Nag. Abhishek is the Director of Business Development at Netflix, previously with Facebook, Uber, Hike and National Instruments. He is also an Angel Investor in 40+ startups. He is a graduate of RV College of Engineering and Indian School of Business, ISB.

In this conversation he discusses:

1. The future of the internet in the next 50 years.
2. How the product is the key driver of Market Entry and Growth?
3. His learning from working at Facebook and how Facebook landed to be a social media giant?
4. What did Scared Games do for Netflix India?
5. Adoption Vs Retention- Which is more important?
6. Experience investing in 40+ seed and pre-seed stage start-ups.

Rapid Fire:

• The hardest thing about your job? 
  • It’s the fact that I'm basically now doing these two jobs. And I'm trying to be good at both of them and better and better every passing day. But there are only 24 hours in a day. So, the hardest thing is prioritizing by constantly wanting to do both Netflix and investing really, really well. 
• One book or a blog that has influenced you personally and professionally?
  • Built to Last, I can think of many built to last, Principles by Ray Dalio, Crossing the Chasm.
• Your most favourite superhero?
  • I probably don't have a favourite superhero. But if I had to pick one, it would be Batman.