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Episode Synopsis
Aditya Agarwal is the Partner at South Park Commons.
SPC is a community of technologists and builders dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and get from -1 to 0.
Prior to SPC Aditya was the CTO of Dropbox and he was one of Facebook’s first engineers.
00:00 - Top moments
01:22 - Intro
02:41 - What is the founding story of South Park Commons?
13:26 - What is the thesis and the portfolio construction of the fund?
15:12 - What type of check sizes are these and what is the portfolio construction like?
16:30 -What are some examples of companies that have gone from -1 to 0 under SPC?
19:09 - What are some examples of companies that got incubated or took a bigger route?
23:03 - What has been the hardest thing about building SPC?
25:17 - What are your learnings from backing these top founders? What are some similar patterns?
28:45 - What is your relationship with India? What are your learnings from working with Indian founders?
31:36 - How can Indian companies apply for SPC?
32:35 - Are you looking to spend more time in India and what is your view on India?
35:44 - What's been making you smile these days?
36:22 - What's your relationship with health?
39:27 - What is that one hack, that you cannot live your life without?
40:01 - What's on your techno playlist these days
🔗 CONNECT WITH Aditya Agarwal
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityaagarwal3/
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/adityaag
🔗 CONNECT WITH SHIVA
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🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfiQ...
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/shivassangwan
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👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiva-sin...
SPC is a community of technologists and builders dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and get from -1 to 0.
Prior to SPC Aditya was the CTO of Dropbox and he was one of Facebook’s first engineers.
00:00 - Top moments
01:22 - Intro
02:41 - What is the founding story of South Park Commons?
13:26 - What is the thesis and the portfolio construction of the fund?
15:12 - What type of check sizes are these and what is the portfolio construction like?
16:30 -What are some examples of companies that have gone from -1 to 0 under SPC?
19:09 - What are some examples of companies that got incubated or took a bigger route?
23:03 - What has been the hardest thing about building SPC?
25:17 - What are your learnings from backing these top founders? What are some similar patterns?
28:45 - What is your relationship with India? What are your learnings from working with Indian founders?
31:36 - How can Indian companies apply for SPC?
32:35 - Are you looking to spend more time in India and what is your view on India?
35:44 - What's been making you smile these days?
36:22 - What's your relationship with health?
39:27 - What is that one hack, that you cannot live your life without?
40:01 - What's on your techno playlist these days
🔗 CONNECT WITH Aditya Agarwal
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityaagarwal3/
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/adityaag
🔗 CONNECT WITH SHIVA
💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://1947tech.substack.com/
🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfiQ...
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/shivassangwan
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/1947Rise
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiva-sin...
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