Sequoia's Rajan Anandan urges startups to be authentic, look at sectors where they can create impact

Rajan Anandan, the man who was the Managing Director at Microsoft India and Vice President India and Southeast Asia at Google, is now an important player in the Indian startup ecosystem. As the Managing Director of Sequoia Capital, he leads Surge, the firm’s accelerator program for early-stage startups in India and Southeast Asia, and has a ringside view of India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
In conversation with Shradha Sharma, Founder, and CEO, YourStory, at TechSparks 2019, Rajan said he felt that the Indian startup ecosystem’s time has come.
“We have entered a new phase; I would call it an Indian Internet startup ecosystem 2.0." He added that things were falling in place for startups in India with the proliferation of the internet and smartphones, which have created new business use cases.
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[@PriyaRanjanSinghIN]

One of the good qualities in host is she lets Rajan speak, interrupts almost never, moves ahead with asking clear questions and is genuinely interested in listening to what he says. Thanks Shraddha.

[@dhakasuchak645]

This person has very unique quality.
smart, simple, Straight forward.
🙏👍👍👍👍

[@sandeepyoutuber1]

He and Satya Nadella have similar tones!

[@umangchikte3560]

He pridicted 2025 but it happens in 2022.
Look how fast india is growing. ❤️

[@subodhpatil585]

This is just about marketsize and valuation instead of essence of startups which is solving a problem

[@arjunn7683]

One day I will be there

[@mdamirhussain1670]

Surely u can

[@rudhisundar]

LET TODAY BE THAT DAY! START SOON!

[@debesh]

1 yr gone whr r u

[@vikasgupta9052]

Thankyou so much for these inspiring interviews 🙏

[@fastaid3356]

Great efforts to bring up new ideas.. Salute to Rajan Sir.. Keep supporting..

[@harshpatel105]

Awesome stuff, thanks shradha. Found him from the latest sam altman interview in India where rajan is asking a question to sam.

[@Jimmedaraadmi]

Great....today I am watching all the videos of your story

[@BigDataLogin]

cool

[@subodhpatil585]

why there is no one talking about solving a problem.."¿

[@hariboliye5318]

Shradda mam you done nice job really

[@sanchitbhadauriya1982]

Insightful

[@hariboliye5318]

Hii shradda mam founder of your story

[@sanujitroy6830]

Why 70% to 80% startup have issue running the operation?

[@bhatukaranda3607]

because of lack of knowledge

[@sanujitroy6830]

@@bhatukaranda3607 why mass intake of poor quality candidates took place?

[@pratik6342]

Lack of funds as well as operational knowledge i guess..

[@prakashbhapkar4876]

Mam aap hindi mey video creat kijiye

[@loser3357]

@Siddhartha dash chup 🤢🤨😡

[@VINEETKUMARJ]

March 2020 lol

[@Sanjeev.vampire]

KHATABOOK has 0 in terms of revenue. I don't understand startups; it's like giving a bate and then taking benefit after network of trust built up. In between competition enters; which delays the taking the benefit stage. And in between investors pulled out or stops funding which leads to 90% startup failure. We businessmen are raising free product/service habbit in the public which is so NOT A BUSINESS