Across The Lines

S2 Ep 2 | Ajay Agarwal, Partner @ Bain Capital Ventures, On Entrepreneurship & The Immigrant Experience

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Ajay Agarwal is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where he focuses on seed and Series A software investing. Ajay’s portfolio includes investments in leading SaaS companies like Gainsight (acquired by Vista Equity), Clari, and SendGrid (IPO and then acquired by Twilio). Prior to BCV, Ajay led Product and Sales as an early employee at Trilogy, an enterprise software pioneer, where he grew annual revenue from $1M to $300M.

In this episode we spoke with Ajay about the following:

  • How the entrepreneurial journey of creating something from nothing is analogous to the immigrant experience
  • The parallels between his experience delivering newspapers while growing up in Pittsburgh and his early career in enterprise sales
  • Startups as a vehicle for rekindling the American Dream through more equal opportunity

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    Episode resources:

    • Ajay's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajay_bcv
    • Ajay's LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajay1agarwal/
    • Bain Capital Ventures: https://www.baincapitalventures.com/

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