Mayfield's Navin Chaddha: “The best companies get bought, not sold”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Navin Chaddha of Mayfield Fund, to talk about the future of work (3:10), and Silicon Valley (9:50), managing $2bn with seven people (13:55), his first startup in the dotcom boom (18:00), the importance of timing (22:50), holding his nerve at the recent peak (28:10), the other two companies he started (33:10), the lessons from he took from them (38:10), the current downturn (42:05), how he made it here from India (46:50), going through the IIT system (50:00), and what he’s excited to back (55:05).

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0:00.0	At the University of Southampton, they won't just teach you.
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0:32.5	Yo, technology. What is it all about?
0:36.7	I remember standing up and saying this stuff in 2020 and this
0:41.4	in q3 this is unsustainable and then q4 markets even go up q1 2021 better q220 even higher higher
0:53.0	so i was just going maybe all my learnings were just fake.
0:57.9	Maybe this is a new world.
0:59.8	This time is different.
1:01.1	This time's really different.
1:03.2	Like, it was gut-wrenching, to be honest, right?
1:06.2	Like when the markets kept going up, up, up, up last year.
1:11.1	Like, I was just wondering, man, like, what is happening?
1:14.8	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley Your Weekly podcast from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
1:35.5	I'm your host, Danny Fortson, and wow, my goodness, what a week in tech.
1:41.8	So this week alone, we've had stripe, lift,, Open Door, Chime, and probably by the time
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