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Anurag Agarwal

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
182 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

I'm 43.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

Oh, that's not old.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

Come on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

But, you know, we're calling them young people now, which means I'm old.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

So, you know, I'd suggest two things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

One is, you know, you have to be able to...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

justify a valuation so when you just asked me about a 20 times valuation on my 360 i actually was able to walk you through what i consider to be a rational rational approach to to getting that 20 times multiple down to four times based on the run rate right and you've got to have that kind of clarity on your business so that you can convince yourself people and eventually that's how you grow the business to scale and the other thing is you know i'll

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

I say this, there is investors and there's investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

You've got to know who you're taking money from and you've got to get them on the same page so that tomorrow, if there is a $3 million deal on the table, at least you can have a conversation with your investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

You know, you just have to, just, it's, you're...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

building relationships for life with your investor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

So don't just take the first money that walks through the door.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

Just query them, question them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

In our case, we absolutely ask investors how passionate they are about our mission because we're trying to also change the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

And an investor who's only interested in return may...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

not necessarily be a great fit for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

Don't get me wrong.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

I mean, you know, as I said earlier at the top of the show, we're very focused on shareholder value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

We know we're going to give our investors multiples and multiples back on their investment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 110: He gave up a $1m wall street salary for nature with Anurag Agarwal

But...