Amit Garg
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I have been in Silicon Valley for 20 years -- at Samsung NEXT Ventures, running my own startup (as of May 2019 a series D that has raised $120M and valued at $450M), at Norwest Ventures, and doing product and analytics at Google. My academic training is BS in computer science and MS in biomedical informatics, both from Stanford, and MBA from Harvard. I speak natively 3 languages, live carbon-neutral, am a 70.3 Ironman finisher, and have built a hospital in rural India serving 100,000 people.
180 Stories by Amit Garg
In the US there are more food outlets than ever before, which is to be expected given increased prosperity and population growth. But what...
Following up from the last article “VCs Suck? Here Are 5 Practical Ways For Entrepreneurs To Minimize The Pain,” this post is focused on...
I hear on an almost daily basis a startup complaining about VCs, mostly about lack of response or lack of clarity. Having been both...
Hindsight is 20/20 — once a company has succeeded its success almost seems pre-ordained. But when it is just starting that is hardly the...
In the past, I have discussed how to run board meetings effectively and how to work best with board observers. Continuing that conversation around...
Iterative Scopes is announcing shortly a large seed round and is one of the bets we are making through Tau Ventures, an AI-first seed...
“Hardware is hard” — there are good reasons for the saying. At least compared to software, hardware typically takes longer to build and is...
In mature ecosystems like Silicon Valley, there is just so much entrepreneurial activity that it often becomes hard to distinguish signal from noise. In...
“Venture Capital In Q1 2019: The World Pulls Back From Record Highs.” “Apple buys self-driving startup Drive.ai just days before it would have died.”...
Hot startups are often thought of that way because of who is involved and how bold the idea is. And they get disproportionate and...
According to the US Small Business Administration, there were 30.2M for-profits in the US in 2018, with almost a 50/50 split between people working...
Non-traditional VCs playing the startup game is nothing new but the scale at which they are participating now is bigger than ever. Pitchbook called...