Rajat Suri

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6,225 appearances 38 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 31 Aug

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Founders in Arms · Founding Teams: What Works, What Doesn’t — with Andy Chen · 1 Apr 2026 podcast

I mean a lot of uh you know, a lot of early stage folks are betting on talent. podcast-host

Um, you know, and but I haven't seen that many people come from your background. podcast-host

Yeah, it's interesting you said, you know, the the networks perpetuate. podcast-host

I mean, yeah, a lot of folks, um, I can imagine, yeah, g they're around money a lot. podcast-host

And if you're around money, it's easier to to be an investor and and a venture investor. podcast-host

And you know, if you're in yeah, i you know, some elite uh schools or, you know, you have some um uh you know, m family money or something like that, your family has connections and it's easier probably to get started. podcast-host

Uh podcast-host

in this space. podcast-host

Um, you know, I I think for me as a founder, like uh I never really thought about the characteristics of a like a venture investor at all. podcast-host

I mean I w you know I just kind of dealt with whoever was there. podcast-host

But yeah, it was interesting to me how many of them were ver financial in nature and like, you know, um I mean now there's a there's more of like a an operator trend, but like at the same time it's um you know there were I was surprised how many podcast-host

like, you know, former bankers, you know, where um we're investors, you know, and uh you know, there's even like a lot of journalists, right, who become um investors 'cause they developed a network, right? podcast-host

And someone eventually is like, Hey, you're looking at startups, you're ready for tech crunch, come like, you know, join our funds. podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

So w do you have any sector focus on your fund? podcast-host

Do you or d is it pretty broad? podcast-host

Yeah, it makes sense. podcast-host

Yeah, I think to be talent oriented first. podcast-host

And that is similar to my thesis too. podcast-host

And when I invest, uh I really focus on the talent uh pieces. podcast-host

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