E143 - India's Biggest Angel Investor w/Utsav Somani of Offline, AngelList India, iSeed, Galaxy

Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar

In this Episode of the Podcast, we speak to Utsav Somani - India's Biggest Angel Investor and decode how he thinks. Utsav is the Founder of AngelList India, General Partner - iSeed and Founder of Galaxy. Tune in to hear Utsav unfiltered on a host of subjects, lets dive in! 00:00 - Introduction 01:32 - Starting AngelList India via a Cold Email 06:15 - How Utsav started to Angel Invest? 15:23 - Evolution of Angel Investing 21:20 - What is Smart Capital? 25:15 - Mastering New Initiatives (Angel Investing, AngelList India, iSeed, Galaxy) 30:42 - Founder Led Capital in India 33:06 - Substance vs Noise 37:18 - Outlier Traits in Founders 40:28 - Original Thoughts? 43:00 - Priorities 46:44 - Depth vs Breadth 47:55 - Future Lens 50:30 - Health as a Focus 57:07 - Leveraging Naval's learnings 1:00:02 - Most Important Learnings 1:04:15 - The 1% quality for Utsav 1:06:02 - How will founders define Utsav? 1:06:50 - The ONE Learning 1:08:06 - One truth that Utsav knows more than anybody else 1:10:05 - Conclusion

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