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Aakash Kapoor
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having insane fun partnering & building with daring founders | Sky is the limit 🦄😎
SingaporeJoined June 2011

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“We are not the best team by all metrics. 30% possession. 80% pass accuracy (vs 95% standard). But we are the most disciplined, the best organised. This gave us the best defence” - 🇮🇸coach @Sequoia_India Lesson: Identify your core and keep compounding it. Don’t worry about rest
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Grudges have no place in the present or future, and they were never in the past. There is no reason to have a nail in your heart that no one even knows. It’s very stupid kind of personal suffering, don’t let it chip away a little happiness every time. Let go!
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Just as founders are iterating on their products, we are constantly thinking (and re-thinking) what we can do to make our ‘product’ better for our ‘users’. Here’s the latest iteration
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We’re raising the ceiling and removing the floor on Surge. No longer $1-2M. If you’re looking to raise up to $3M, we want to hear from you! surgeahead.com/surge-extends- Thread 🧵 👇🏼
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This co in the tweet in 2019 was after our seed inv. Welcome Tencent, Square on the mission set out for: "fair financial services for Indonesia". Also as angel (he's been in for a while!) @Sequoia_India
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Picture taken at a fintech #startup office. #Founder says these are all the statements banks send us every month. We never open them but keep them here for inspiration - this reminds us what we don’t want to become. And it motivates team that our competition isn’t hard to beat 😂
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Fun group chat w/ founders of two seed stage companies Founder A: what do you think will get us the next round in these times Founder B *after a long pause*: …product-market fit Period. That’s what seed stage founders shd care about in ANY market. Isn’t it :)
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50 years globally, 16 in India, 10 in SEA. And now we are committing the next decade and beyond - to build with founders and for founders. @Sequoia_India
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1/ Today, we are announcing that Sequoia India & Sequoia Southeast Asia have collectively raised $2.85B across a new set of funds, including India venture, growth funds and an $850M SEA fund - our first dedicated fund for the region. sequoiacap.com/india/article/
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Heartened to see how are making a REAL, big dent for fish farmers in Indonesia. Q translation- 4x income for farmer on the left, 2 of the other man’s kids studying in a premier engineering school
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Pak Rusli (kiri), kolamnya bertambah dari 3 jadi 12 dalam 6 bulan bergabung @efishery_ai. 4 kali lipat income naik. Pak Ganda (kanan), 7 tahun jadi bagian eFishery, dua anaknya kuliah ITB. Dia nya buta huruf. Tech bisa bantu reduce inequalities kok. Asal solve the right problem.
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tech founder/ VC perspective, for this and only this: offline > online
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Here’s a sneak peek of #Surge06 in Bangkok, where many #founders met in person for the first time after months on Zoom together! They had an absolute blast connecting with and learning from each other. We couldn’t be more thrilled to have shared this experience with them.
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Proud to be partnered with @Sequoia_India , and to have a unified vision in building an amazing user-generated #Metaverse experience! Looking forward to working with . We are honored to be a part of the @Sequoia_India family. The best is yet to come! Let's build!🚀
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(1/2) Social gaming is an amazing neighbourhood - Roblox is $2B+ revenue, $600M+ OCF. Things have evolved over years though - 1) users are now creators & vice-versa, 2) local is more contextual vs global, 3) #Web3 democratising digital ownership. That leaves space for disruption twitter.com/SequoiaIndiaSE…
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(1/2) Social gaming is an amazing neighbourhood - Roblox is $2B+ revenue, $600M+ OCF. Things have evolved over years though - 1) users are now creators & vice-versa, 2) local is more contextual vs global, 3) #Web3 democratising digital ownership. That leaves space for disruption
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. @aakash_kpr & Shenya Wang write about why we’re psyched to partner with @risafeng, @shawnxlin_ & the team building @budcreate, a #UGC #metaverse platform designed to unleash the creativity of #GenAlpha & #GenZ with easy-to-use #NoCode tools! india.sequoiacap.com/build/bud-turn
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The startup ecosystem needs guardrails so that a few errant founders don’t create setbacks for all. We want to build companies that endure, and that can only happen if governance is strong. Hope more people join us on this pledge to greater governance.
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Underlining general problem solvers who *break rules*
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5. when you're an early founder: focus on talent that can drive disproportionate outcomes for you. having a high talent density of insane problem solvers will become your biggest delta. you need general problem solvers who like to break rules.
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Heartiest congratulations to the team at GoTo on $1.1B IPO in Indonesia Huge honor for @Sequoia_India and me to be part of the journey of both Gojek and Tokopedia since the early days 🙏🙏🙏
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GoTo raised about $1.1 billion after pricing the deal at the middle of its price range, sources say. bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via @technology
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Wow 🙌 The process and journey of taking a chance on motivated individuals — and then fighting alongside them — is so fulfilling and addictive! In fact, the end result is just a bonus if anything at all (plus I’m sure you’ll help him land well nevertheless). Exciting!
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Spoke to very well exposed parents (founders of an ERP company), who were very insistent on enrolling their 16 YO son to Scaler. Our admission team had said no earlier because its a program for working professionals.
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‘Decision making’ should be taught as a subject starting from high school. One can never master this art but the earlier you become a student of it, the better. Everything in professional and personal life depends on the decisions we make, and oh boy, do decisions compound fast
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That’s because it doesn’t feel like work when you do what you love
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just got off a founder call w @RajanAnandan @P_Kemps @aakash_kpr & others founder: is it normal that many of you get on a call on sunday night? me: as a founder, are you always willing to do what it takes for your startup? why do you think we wont do the same? @Sequoia_India
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Early team members are special. They are passionate (may even complain a bit). But they feel the customer & wld deliver highest NPS. In scale-up pursuit, don’t lose them or cage them. Infact separate thm from the new ‘rockstar’ & org process so they don’t lose their fire
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Go !! Excited to back the incredible opportunity in consumer x web3, but even more thrilled to back you and your passion for building . @Sequoia_India
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Thrilled and humbled to announce that Flint (@flintdotmoney) has raised $5.1 Million in our seed round from some of the biggest backers across the globe - led by @Sequoia_India and GFC (@Global_Founders), with participation from @coinbase Ventures, @hashed_official and more.
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Stunning. Innovation and wealth creation flywheel is spinning. And it’s spinning fast. Just imagine how much entrepreneurship and consumption this will fuel in the next decade - future is veryyyyy bright
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CRED surpasses Byju's, Ola and Swiggy in terms of ESOP pool size Top companies by ESOP pool👇 Flipkart: $2.26 Bn Oyo: $1 Bn Zomato: $750 Mn Paytm: $610 Mn Nykaa: $570 Mn PolicyBazaar: $515 Mn CRED: $500 Mn ▪️ In non-listed companies, CRED is only behind Flipkart and Oyo
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Its a massive privilege AND above all lots of fun building with We are tripling down, and committing the NEXT *decade & beyond* to build (Bukukas) @Sequoia_India
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Excited to deepen our partnership with @KrishnanMenon17, @LPeracchione & team @LummoSHOPid (formerly Bukukas), which is enabling Indonesian entrepreneurs & brands to unlock & maximise their business potential through online commerce. 🤩 #D2C @_surgeahead economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/funding/t
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secure managers build love & cred, earning the right to be leaders. insecure ones remain managers, until a secure leader takes over btw it's possible to shed insecurity..by being overly generous. counter-intuitive. but try it. give credit, elevate others. you'll feel secure aft
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Finally announcing this one! Stoked to be partnering with and building the future of Web 3 auth 🚀 #authentication #wallets #SSO
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1/ We are excited to share our raise of $13m from @Sequoia_India @usv @multicoincap and others to continue to drive mass adoption of dapps and wallets! We are also proud to reveal #Web3Auth, which kickstarts the decentralization of the Torus Network. techcrunch.com/2022/01/12/web
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