Gokul Rajaram

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1,839 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 16 Mar

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: The 8 Moats of Enduring Software Companies: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI | Why Dropouts are "AI Maxing" the World & Remote Early-Stage Companies are Dying with Gokul Rajaram · 16 Mar 2026 podcast

And you say you back those people.

And that's a much...

much better risk reward there.

So you want to do a few of those in addition to, you want to do a few incubation and seed in addition to, in addition to series A. You're doing that, right?

In some ways, I think every early stage firm, I think you've got to have proprietary founder access and access to founders and their first call when they go to start a company.

And then you meet founders, you don't know them before, you're kind of betting on traction and so on.

You've got to have a mix of both kinds.

What is proprietary is your ability to add value.

And I think founders, you basically have to, I think, build-

If you're just capital and assuming founders will come to you, you're not going to win.

But what you have to offer them is something.

What you offer them is something very different and unique.

What I offer them is something very different and unique.

We all have, I think you've got to hone as investors, what is it that we're offering?

Is it counsel?

Yes, that's free.

Is it distribution?

You offer incredible distribution.

Is it a network of customers that you can get them access to?

Is it like talent hiring?

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