94: Investing in people not in Ideas, -1 to 0, potential of India, Aditya Agarwal, South Park Commons

Aditya Agarwal is the Partner at South Park Commons. SPC is a community of technologists and builders dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and get from -1 to 0. Prior to SPC Aditya was the CTO of Dropbox and he was one of Facebook’s first engineers. 00:00 - Top moments 01:22 - Intro 02:41 - What is the founding story of South Park Commons? 13:26 - What is the thesis and the portfolio construction of the fund? 15:12 - What type of check sizes are these and what is the portfolio construction like? 16:30 -What are some examples of companies that have gone from -1 to 0 under SPC? 19:09 - What are some examples of companies that got incubated or took a bigger route? 23:03 - What has been the hardest thing about building SPC? 25:17 - What are your learnings from backing these top founders? What are some similar patterns? 28:45 - What is your relationship with India? What are your learnings from working with Indian founders? 31:36 - How can Indian companies apply for SPC? 32:35 - Are you looking to spend more time in India and what is your view on India? 35:44 - What's been making you smile these days? 36:22 - What's your relationship with health? 39:27 - What is that one hack, that you cannot live your life without? 40:01 - What's on your techno playlist these days 🔗 CONNECT WITH Aditya Agarwal 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityaagarwal3/ 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/adityaag 🔗 CONNECT WITH SHIVA 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://1947tech.substack.com/ 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfiQ... 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/shivassangwan 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/1947Rise 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiva-sin...