E143 - India's Biggest Angel Investor w/Utsav Somani of Offline, AngelList India, iSeed, Galaxy

In this Episode of the Podcast, we speak to Utsav Somani - India's Biggest Angel Investor and decode how he thinks. Utsav is the Founder of AngelList India, General Partner - iSeed and Founder of Galaxy.

Tune in to hear Utsav unfiltered on a host of subjects, lets dive in!

00:00 - Introduction
01:32 - Starting AngelList India via a Cold Email
06:15 - How Utsav started to Angel Invest?
15:23 - Evolution of Angel Investing
21:20 - What is Smart Capital?
25:15 - Mastering New Initiatives (Angel Investing, AngelList India, iSeed, Galaxy)
30:42 - Founder Led Capital in India
33:06 - Substance vs Noise
37:18 - Outlier Traits in Founders
40:28 - Original Thoughts?
43:00 - Priorities
46:44 - Depth vs Breadth
47:55 - Future Lens
50:30 - Health as a Focus
57:07 - Leveraging Naval's learnings
1:00:02 - Most Important Learnings
1:04:15 - The 1% quality for Utsav
1:06:02 - How will founders define Utsav?
1:06:50 - The ONE Learning
1:08:06 - One truth that Utsav knows more than anybody else
1:10:05 - Conclusion

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