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57 Fireside Ventures' Kanwaljit Singh on backing Indian consumer brands before anyone believed, why he'd rather a portfolio full of winners than one 100x, and turning down half the money he could have raised

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By Rohin Dharmakumar Verified
| First Principles
For fifty-odd episodes, First Principles kept venture capitalists off the show, because the conversation tends to drift to the portfolio rather than the person. Kanwal Singh is the exception. In 2017, at the peak of the tech boom, he walked away from tech investing to raise a fund only for Indian consumer brands, an idea investors could not place. His first cheques came not from institutions but from the families who had built India’s consumer businesses.
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Kanwaljit Singh on the consumer-brands bet, the anti-power-law fund, and turning down twice the money

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By Rohin Dharmakumar Verified
| The Ken
I started interviewing founders for First PrinciplesThe KenFirst Principles, starting with Kabeer Biswas of Dunzo in August 2022. Then, over the years I added CEOs, Chairpersons, and operators to the mix. But no venture capitalists. I held off on VCs because the conversation drifts to their portfolio rather than the person. Kanwaljit Singh of Fireside Ventures is my first exception, because the most interesting thing about him is the bet he made with the fund itself.
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By Rohin Dharmakumar Verified
| The Ken
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