In this episode, Elias Rubel is joined by Arjun Sethi, co-founder at Tribe. Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm launched by a trio of former Social Capital. Some of their previous select investments include Digital Currency Group, Intercom, Slack, Relativity, Carta, Cover, Invenia, Front, Cloud Kitchens and many more. He is an entrepreneur who learns and adapts quickly. In this episode he shares lessons learned along the way.
[04:39] Arjun’s background
[07:16] How grew up here in the Valley and a lot of my family was coming from all over the world
[10:13] How to judge whether it is math question vs communications question
[12:04] The journey into the SaaS business
[16:34] The process of seizing fabulous opportunity right now
[16:35] You only need to have a hundred customers and then you can scale something
[19:22] The challenge of scaling your first company
[27:04] Starting a company is hard. Finding the customers to pay you as hard
[30:18] His thoughts on the evolution of tech
Marc Andreessen
[01:25] The importance of mentorship and how to choose a mentor
[02:57] The second type of mentor
[04:56] Why you need to know how to ask for help and how asking for help will put you ahead
[08:20] Mentorship for underprivileged and underrepresented populations
[10:34] Prospecting and selling are two different skill sets
[14:54] How to use SalesSource
[17:20] Lars’s career, what he has learned, and his priorities now
