About Aviral Bhatnagar:

My next guest on The One Percent Project is Aviral Bhatnagar, Founder of  “A Junior VC” Community and he is A Junior VC at Venture Highway. Aviral is a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Aviral’s Quora responses have more than 30M views and his start-up essays have led to the creation of the 20,000-member strong “A Junior VC” Community and earned him 170,000+ follower on LinkedIn. 

In this conversation he talks about:

• Non-Linear Decision Making & How it has benefitted Aviral
• Building a community- A Junior VC, AJVC: Why & How?
• Views on the Indian Venture Capital Ecosystem
• What does intellectual honestly mean to Aviral and why is it important in a founder?
• How has Amazon been able to penetrate Bharat?
• Are Indian start-ups improvising or innovating?
• Aviral's views on investing in a bottom-up start-up
• How Amul & Haldirams have been able to build multi-billion businesses by listening to the customer at scale

Rapid Fire:

• One book or a blog that has made the most difference to you?
  • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, Harry Potter series and Alex Ferguson's biography. 
• Hardest thing about your job?
  • Saying No.
• Your most favorite superhero?
  • My Dad.