Rohit Malhotra

Lifeselfmastery's podcast I Startups I Venture Capital

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Life Self Mastery Podcast is an interview based show where I interview online entrepreneurs who started their businesses and scaled up their businesses to improve their lifestyles. Previous guests include Guy Kawasaki, Brad Feld, James Clear, Shu Nyatta, Ida Tin, Elizabeth Yin, Polina Pompliano, Evgenia Plotnikova, Anna Khan, Minnie Ingersoll, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Mac Conwell, Danielle Strachman, Jake Gibson, Wes Kao, Brian Requarth, Vivek Sodera, Eric Siu, Amit Garg, Nischal Shetty, Pranav Pai, Nir Eyal, Paul Shapiro, Nick Huber, Rob Walling, Andrew Dsouza, Fabrice Grinda, and 300+ incredible g...

Author

Rohit Malhotra

Category

Business

Podcast website

partnergrow.substack.com

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

Carmen Alfonso Rico on investing early into Hopin and leveraging the power of communities 17.03.2022

In this episode, Carmen talks about her operating experience in Morgan Stanley, her early investment in Hopin, market sizing, building ownership in your best companies, Carmen's biggest misses, hacking your first round of funding, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

Mike Smerklo from Next Coast Ventures on building disruptive companies in big markets 10.03.2022

In this episode, Mike talks about his experience with the Lehmann Brothers and Marc Andreessen, how Next Coast Ventures is growing the next generation of entrepreneurs, his biggest lessons on market size, Mike's biggest misses and How did they impact his decision-making process moving forward, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...

How Deliverect simplifies online food delivery management with Zhong Yuan Xu 03.03.2022

In this episode, Zhong talks about how did he come up with the idea of Deliverect, the experience of raising money remotely, acquiring first customers, what does a customer care about, how to decide which market to enter, the decision-making framework, company culture, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,...

How is Fuzey Helping Local Businesses Attract, Engage, and Retain Customers with Alex Boyce 22.02.2022

In this episode, Alex talks about the pain points Fuzey solves for SMEs, the prioritization process, how decision-making changes with scale, reference-checking investors, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

Tiny Business, Big Money: Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness With Elaine Pofeldt 17.02.2022

In this episode, Elaine talks about the process for writing the book, strategies to grow small businesses, tools for automating your business, marketing channels, funding options, and what is common among all tiny businesses and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

Backing cryptocurrency, blockchain, and Web3 startups with Atul Ajoy from Horseshoe Capital 10.02.2022

In this episode, Atul talks about how decision making is determined at Horseshoe Capital, mental model when investing into crypto, differences between DAO and more traditional forms of financial services such as traditional banks, practical applications of NFTs, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...

Joseph Fung on Transforming Tech Sales Careers with Uvaro 04.02.2022

In this episode, Joseph talks about Sales practices you should be practicing, customer personas, unbundling of the university, secret weapon to scale startups, selling freemium products, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

Investing in Fintech and Software with Ansaf Kareem from Lightspeed Venture Partners 27.01.2022

In this episode, Ansaf talks about his experience at McKinsey and HBS, sourcing deals, metrics an enterprise software founder should focus on, the biggest mistakes founders make when they hit traction, assessing market timing,, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

Building an EV subscription business with Rob Jolly from OnTo 22.01.2022

In this episode, Rob talks about his journey with Land Rover; how does Rob determine what to do next vs what to do later, his style of leadership today, fund-raising, strategy lessons, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

Jeroen Bertrams on investing in 10 unicorns and how the world of fundraising has changed with COVID 14.01.2022

In this episode, Jeroen talks about the biggest changes in the venture landscape in the last few years; DVC funds, market timing risk, presenting CAC/LTV metrics to investors, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

How does Capchase provide non-dilutive recurring revenue for startups with Miguel Fernandez 06.01.2022

In this episode, Miguel talks about helping SaaS companies finance the growth of their operations, distribution channels one should use to build a business, metrics to process loans; Capchase Expense Financing, hiring the best remote talent, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack....

How GlobalBees raised a record $150 million to acquire DTC brands with Nitin Agarwal 01.01.2022

In this episode, Nitin talks about challenges for smaller businesses selling on Amazon, how are Amazon businesses typically valued, how does GlobalBees pick companies to acquire, Brand building on amazon, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

Building a virtual educational program for kids with Victoria Ransom of Prisma 22.12.2021

In this episode, Victoria talks about her learnings from Google and Wildfire, the audience for Prisma; How does Prisma provide socialization for a child, building a two-sided marketplace, unbundling of education, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

Investing in early-stage FinTech companies globally with Chad Fox from Fox ventures 16.12.2021

In this episode, Chad talks about the current financial ecosystem, thesis of the Rolling fund, investments in Level and Baraka, current Fintech M&A market, portfolio construction and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

How Walnut is making healthcare more affordable for patients by breaking up large medical bills into small, monthly payments by Roshan Patel 10.12.2021

In this episode, Roshan talks about his journey with Space Capital and H/L ventures; how does Walnut make money; how much loan can a customer take, his experience with OnDeck and Plaid accelerator, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

Ryan Allis from Heartrithm on how a crypto quant fund is turning code into money and money into good. 03.12.2021

In this episode, Ryan talks about how he grew iContact to 300 employees, his time at HBS, the Thesis behind HeartRithm fund, and how it never had a down month, and what crypto-currencies he would invest now, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

Ahana Banerjee from Clear on building a skincare tracking database and social app 26.11.2021

In this episode, Ahana talks about the story behind Clear app, customer acquisition channels, biggest lessons in building community, right time to add ancillary products, YC experience and her biggest learnings, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

Patrick Pichette from Inovia Capital shares his Google journey and how can founders start right and have diverse cultures 19.11.2021

In this episode, Patrick talks about the biggest lessons from his time working with Larry Page and Sergey Bin, the decision framework at Inovia Capital, his advice to founders to look at diversity and inclusion in their teams, approaching the talent market today, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...

Alexej Pikovsky on Building an e-commerce incubation and acquisition platform in health & wellness 13.11.2021

In this episode, Alexej talks about how Alphagreen picks companies to acquire, what are retail cos doing to combat Amazon's massive marketplace, the importance of trust and quality in brand building, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

How Vastly Valuable Ventures evaluates defensible ideas in large markets with Ali Rampurwala 05.11.2021

In this podcast, Ali talks about his experience in building his syndicate and how the rise of syndicates has impacted the seed capital landscape and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

How Engineering Capital partners with great entrepreneurs driven by technical insights by Ashmeet Sidana 30.10.2021

In this podcast Ashmeet talks about how investing in Technical Insights is different from traditional venture capital in Silicon Valley, why he choose to be a solo GP, his biggest advice to those in the earlier years of their VC career, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

Investing in exceptional SaaS companies from early stage to pre IPO with Evgenia Plotnikova, General Partner at Dawn Capital 20.10.2021

In this episode, Evgenia talks about portfolio construction, time allocation across your portfolio companies, innovation in SaaS, revenue metrics, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

How To Invest In Distressed Assets with Scott Krone 16.10.2021

In this episode, Scott talks about processes of converting underperforming buildings to self-storage, capital Requirements For Self-Storage, the occupancy rate for customers renting self-storage units, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

How can Avid help you share your knowledge and monetise it through audio lessons with Charlotte Duoyi Zhao 08.10.2021

In this episode, Charlotte talks about how is Avid different from other e-learning companies, target audience, the production value for a creator, marketing the courses, Avid's revenue model, comedy stand-ups, and much more This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

How is Uncapped providing upfront revenue to digital companies with Piotr Pisarz 02.10.2021

In this episode, Piotr talks about debt financing, higher CACs on traditional platforms, opportunities in DTC and SaaS, metrics for processing loans, remote work, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit partnergrow.substack.com

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