We are back with your favourite Konversations Cafe!
In today’s Konversation, we are excited to bring to you Sajith Pai, VC at Blume Ventures. 🙌 Prior to pivoting into the world of venture capital, Sajith has spent over two decades at the Times Group, and resigned as the Associate Vice President.
We start the conversation right from the beginning, when he had shifted to Goa to pursue his bachelor’s degree in 1992. After his graduation, Sajith went ahead to pursue an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.🏫
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Sajith shares his experiences at IIM Ahmedabad, and how he was in tears after getting rejected by his dream marketing companies during the placement season.🎓
He then goes on to share his work at the Times Group, and then at Blume Ventures. He even shared exciting insights on how a Venture Capital invests in startups.
✍️Further, he tells us about his love for writing, and that if a day comes when he’d have to choose between writing and his IIM Ahmedabad degree, he’d give up the latter.
Watch the entire Konversation to know more about his journey.
0:00- Coming up
1:26- Konversation Cafe Intro
1:38- Who is Sajith Pai?
04:05- How did Sajith Pai land in IIM Ahmedabad?
05:42- Were you academically interested in MBA?
06:00- Sajith Pai wanted to do psychology but did economics. Why?
06:30- Famous Newspaper helped Sajith Pai understand business
07:31- Career after IIM Ahmedabad
08:03- Sajith Pai wanted to be in marketing
09:22- Journey from Goa to IIM Ahmedabad
10:00- Career after IIM Ahmedabad
10:22- I got one F in IIM Ahmedabad
12:18- All FMCG firms rejected Sajith Pai
14:08- MBA still relevant
16:28- What was it like founding Bennett University?
17:58- Future of Ed-Tech in India?
20:30- Building product market fit business
21:50- Two big spaces in ed-tech are jobs and TestPrep
22:20- How do Sajith Pai has assess product market fit with his startup
24:07- How did India’s media landscape change?
26:00- TOI: Beyond advertising mindset
26:35- The Incredible India change moment
30:09- Arnab has been an audience capture
33:29- The future of Newspaper Industry
36:08- How did Sajith Pai land up in the VC world?
38:56- My writings are far more important than my IIM Ahmedabad degree
42:15- What does a VC do?
49:14- Do B-schools prepare you to start something of your own or drag you to doing a job?
50:51- Struggles in business
54:27- Insides of Venture world
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Very inspiring to hear the bit where he didn't give up despite not achieving his desired goal at IIMA! Please keep posting more such videos!
It's crazy how he went a massive career change after 20 years of working in a particular industry to a completely different one. Hustle really never stops!🫡
The speaker really knew what he was talking about, with so many insights packed into a single session. Making it understandable even for a layman is not an easy job. Kudos to the team for bringing us these talks.🤝
This video is quite interesting, quite different from what i usually see on youtube, The entire story of IIM Ahmedabad back then seems to be very captivating, will attend K-cafe in person moving forward.
So much to learn from the indepth discussion from the founder's lens.
Glad to hear about the Inspiring journey of Sajith, So many ups and downs in his life but that did not stop him from achieving his goal as a VC.
Inspiring journey! Super helpful insights on venture capital. Thanks for sharing! 👍
Seems like Host could have beeen more attentive to the talks of Mr Sajith sir. 🙂