Sramana Mitra: How were you addressing the blacklist issue? How were you detecting if something wasn’t blacklisted but was a problem? How were you figuring that out? Rob Cheng: What we’re doing is the opposite. We’re creating a white list of everything that’s good. We’re looking for every single good program that we can find
Sramana Mitra: This was actually fascinating because we do have a very large Indian following. It’s very interesting to hear about these trends. What’s new? What’s cutting edge? So I’d love to hear more about other interesting ideas in your portfolio. Rahul Chowdhri: Shop101 is a social commerce application. In the last few years, Facebook,
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors, advising Prime Venture Partners, a firm focused on core technology ventures in India. Unlike most VCs, Prime does concept-stage investments. Oracle project As for the entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Arun Philips from Bangalore, India, who is also
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Sramana Mitra: Were you hiring these developers in South Carolina? Rob Cheng: We used Monster.com. Back then, that was a way to hire people. So I would just look for the best people and for the skill. I would find them wherever I could. As it ends up, a couple of our developers ended up
Taylor Greene, Managing Director at Collaborative Fund, shares his firm’s investment thesis.
Sramana Mitra: Give us a few examples of what you have invested in catering to that next 400 milion users. Rahul Chowdhri: We invested in a company called VOGO. It is a scooter-sharing business like Lime or Bird. The problem that Lime solves in the US is very different from what VOGO is in India.