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Nikhil Kalghatgi

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“If that's what I could do to focus on helping them achieve their vision, then I've really found my edge in helping them succeed. So the reason I focus on moonshots is because, honestly, logically, it's the place where I thought I could be everyone else. Because a company that's going forward on, I don't know, asteroid mining. That's like one example of a company that I've actually invested in. Now, that sounds like they're moonshot is pretty close to what the literal definition of a moonshot is. You know, in the context of being a good investor.”
2018-04-10 · Invest Like the Best · Nikhil Kalghatgi – Moonshot Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.82] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You mentioned this as we were just chatting before we hit record. Maybe you could describe what that term means, and we'll get into some of the nuanced detail around. Whether or not something has moonshot potential. Moonshots are pretty much the biggest idea you can possibly muster. And everyone's moonshots are different in someone else's. So it's not you're limited to actually being Elon Musk or trying to go to Mars or whatever it is. In my experience, the best gift you can give to an entrepreneur is to expand their mind and their goals and what they can achieve. This has happened to me when volunteering at inner city schools teaching entrepreneurship to being a VC. And the best thing that I tried to do when I spent the last eight plus years as a venture capitalist was ask entrepreneurs sort of what their moonshot really is with their company. Not the vision of their current company, but what they're really trying to achieve in the five or ten year kind of horizon. And even if it's a really remote possibility,”
2018-04-10 · Invest Like the Best · Nikhil Kalghatgi – Moonshot Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.82] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source