E93 - Enduring Venture Investing w/General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja

In this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Hemant Taneja, Managing Partner at General Catalyst. 

Hemant is one of the most legendary venture investors of our generation. In his path-breaking career, he has invested in companies such as Stripe, Snap, Livongo, Gusto and many other phenomenal companies. His brilliant investing career fundamentally stems from his core trait of being an original thinker and intentionally resorting to first principles thinking when developing frameworks. Alongside being a wonderful venture investor, Hemant is well-renowned for the books he has authored and other writings, which have spearheaded some incredible modern-day entrepreneurship principles such as Unscaling, Responsible Innovation, Empathetic Entrepreneurs and many more. He has been with General Catalyst for over two decades now, contributing and shaping an enduring venture investing practice. 

General Catalyst is a global venture capital fund, investing in technology companies across the world. With a portfolio that includes Canva, Stripe, Deliveroo, GitLab, Airbnb - General Catalyst is definitely one of the most successful institutional investors.

Through this conversation with Hemant of General Catalyst, we decode how one may build an enduring venture investing practice.

We discuss the following through this conversation:

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About our sponsor: Stride Ventures, which is one of India’s leading Venture Debt Funds, becoming synonymous with innovative startup financing in India. Stride provides comprehensive solutions, going beyond venture debt, to cater to distinctive challenges faced by high-growth and inherently strong businesses, backed by leading institutions. The fund has a portfolio of over 60+ diversified companies, having deployed more than Rupees 1500 Crore to date. In just over two years, Stride Ventures has emerged as the preferred venture debt lender in the Indian Ecosystem. To know more about this phenomenal fund, visit - https://strideventures.in/

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