Aashay Sanghvi (Investor @ Haystack)

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This week we had on Aashay Sanghvi (@aashaysanghvi_) of Haystack.

Haystack is an early-stage fund that backs outlier founders at the earliest stages. Some of their portfolio companies include DoorDash, Instacart, Figma, Carta, and OpenDoor to name a few. Aashay is one of the three members of the team, and he focuses primarily on dev tools, fintech, and healthcare opportunities.

In this talk, we discuss:

• the hype cycle of a venture career

• distinction between the business and the game of being a VC

• things that make developer tools an attractive category to invest in

Check out the full episode below:

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🧠 20 cognitive biases to help you make better decisions

🎨 Color psychology map to show what different colors communicate

🚫 Why products fail

📝 On Deck Series A investment memo

💸 The economics of social money

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