EP#5 Sumukh Sridhara – Equity management for startups, the culture & founder mindset at AngelList, and the ‘startup OS’ approach to building products

In today’s episode, Sumukh Sridhara, Founder & CEO @EquityList, joins our host Digjay, to discuss among other topics, AngelList's role at various stages of a startup’s lifecycle, how it is democratizing access to venture investing, the making of EquityList, how EquityList was born out of this startup OS approach to building products and the culture of having a founder mindset at AngelList.

Sumukh is the founder of EquityList, an equity management product for Indian companies. Sumukh also heads product & engineering at AngelList India, which as a platform, is the most active early stage investor in India. You can connect with him here on Linkedin / Twitter

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Resources –

1. EquityList blogs with explainers on ESOPs, equity management and how to use EquityList for managing your cap table 

2. A guide for founders how to use AngelList in India

Show notes –

1. Sumukh’s background and how he ended up working at AngelList

2. How AngelList plays a role in the lifecycle of a startup and helps them with fundraising, hiring and product launch?

3. How AngelList is democratizing access to venture investing through its syndicates platform for investors?

4. The scale at AngelList – portfolio of ~5,000 startups globally; how it leverages its massive data set to innovate and build new products for VCs and Startups?

5. Genesis of the idea behind EquityList, an equity management product for Indian companies. What differentiates EquityList from other competitors in the market?

6. The need for a ‘Startup Operating System’ approach to build products that can catalyze the growth of startups

7. Differences & similarities between Silicon Valley & the Indian startup ecosystem

8. Developing the founder mindset at AngelList & straddling between the role of an operator & a founder

9. The ‘Naval effect’ at AngelList

10. Rapid fire and closing remarks