The One Percent Project- Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Resilience Episode 5: Karthik Prabhakar- Indian Venture Capital & Early Stage Technology
Jun 21, 2020
22:02
About Karthik:
My next guest on The One Percent Project is Karthik Prabhakar. He is the Executive Director and Partner at Chiratae Ventures. Karthik is also a member of the Investment Committee of AngelHub. Karthik for three consecutive years from 2016 to 2018 was recognized as one among the 40 Under 40 in the alternative investments space in India by AAAIF. He is also recognized amongst the global top 100 Rising Stars in the venture industry by Global Corporate Venturing.
Our Conversation:
- His learning as a Venture Capitalist.
- How he assesses early-stage startup ideas and team?
- Is branding important for early-stage startups?
- A new Indian consumer base that COVID has opened up for startups to tap into and sectors that will get a boost due to the pandemic
- How foreign entrants such as Amazon, TikTok and others were able to scale in a heterogeneous market such as India?
- Factors for Zoom's supremacy over all the other video conferencing products in the markets during the pandemic
Quickfire Questions:
- Team or idea?
- Team
- A book that has helped you think better personally as well as at work?
- One is a book by Viktor E. Frankl Man's Search for Meaning. It's been a phenomenal book. And the second one is by Christensen "How Will You Measure Your Life?"
- One app that you would recommend everybody to use, or you use extensively?
- I'm invested in gaming and education companies. So I keep playing with these games a lot. I would recommend to check out WordTrek by Play Simple Games. Disclaimers Play Simple Games is one of our investments.