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VCs in India invest in things they wouldn't lose money on: Aravind

Inshorts · 4m ago

VCs in India invest in things they wouldn't lose money on: Aravind

Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas said venture capitalists (VCs) in India "are still very risk averse". "They like to invest in things that they wouldn't lose money on," he stated. "⁠The mindset should be like- 95% of my investments would fail, but 5%...would return me 100-1,000 times. That mindset doesn't exist in India VCs," he added.

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