In this episode, Aashay Sanghvi, a partner at Haystack joins Sean Linehan and Erik Torenberg to discuss his frameworks for identifying venture scale ideas.

Today’s episode of Request for Startups features:

* Guest: 

* Aashay Sanghvi: Partner at Haystack (https://twitter.com/aashaysanghvi_)

* Hosts:

* Erik Torenberg: Investor, founder of Turpentine.co (https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg)

* Sean Linehan: CEO at Exec (https://twitter.com/seanlinehan)

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(00:54) Aashay’s Journey from College to Venture Capital

(01:46) The Evolution of Aashay's Approach to Startups

(03:03) Reflecting on Past Startup Ideas

(04:07) Frameworks for identifying venture scale companies

(05:11) Better Trade Schools

(06:39) Challenges and Opportunities in Trade School Models

(13:12) ISA: challenges and potential to reshape industries

(19:52) DataDog for X 

(22:55) Replit for X

(31:41) Github for X

(36:10) The Role of AI in Business Applications and the Future of Software

(43:01) Healthcare Data as Infrastructure

(46:54) Virtualizing the Creation of Biotech Companies

(48:18) Wrap

Upcoming guests on this season of Request for Startups include Dan Romero, Talia Goldberg, Imran Khan, Qiao Wang, Nick DeWilde, Avlok Kohli, David Booth, Greg Isenberg, Gagan Biyani, and more.

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