“VC isn’t luck. It’s proof.”

If you’re a founder or curious investor, this episode makes VC legible—math first, hype last.

At 24, London-based investor Anmol Goel walks us through the real game behind venture capital—why you place 100 bets and only 2–3 need to become monsters, and why most “good” 2–3× ideas get ignored to chase the outliers. We start where pop culture ends beyond Shark Tank, into the math, the discipline, and the messy early-stage judgment calls that separate noise from signal.

Anmol breaks down the power-law (YC’s few mega-winners return a huge share of the fund), the “not spray & pray” myth, and what “educated bets” look like when there’s barely any data—only founders, velocity, and the glimmer of a moat.

0:24- Introduction

1:20 - VC investing in General terms

4:27 - It's not Spray and Pray

6:51 - Private Equity

10:45 - How he became a VC

20:21 - Schedules to Manage: Impossible

24:26 - Start up Investing for NRIs

30:12 - Raising Money

34:21 - The Forty Under 40

39:23 - Investing money : To be or Not To be

48:11 - Is AI just a trend

52:45 - Factor to be consider

52:56 - Changing US policies

58:48 - Founders not from IITs/IIMs, do they struggles?

1:01:00 - VC ghosts startups? Why?

1:02:42 - The luck factor for Start ups

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