#93 The Power of A Big, Bold Vision & Solving Challenges of Tomorrow with Kirthiga Reddy

Kirthiga Reddy, Growth-stage Investor & Technology Executive Ex Facebook & Softbank chats with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.

Kirthiga is President, Athena Technology II, the third in a series of all women-led SPACs bringing leading talent, access to capital and transaction experience to enable a market leader to access the equity capital markets. She is Founding Investment Partner of F7 seed fund. She serves on the Board of Directors for WeWork and Pear. 

Previously, Kirthiga was the first female Investment Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA), manager of the $100B+ SoftBank Vision Fund. She led a portfolio of $5B+ across 9 investments, two new unicorns, three companies publicly listed (IonQ, WE, PEAR). 

Prior to SBIA, she was Managing Director, Facebook India and South Asia for over six years, starting as their first employee in India. She started one of the global operations offices that now serves over 3.5B people. 

Listen to the podcast to learn about

03:00 - "making the most of the opportunities given to you"
08:30 - Joining & Scaling Facebook India
13:45 - BHAG(100,100,100)
20:00 - Facebook IPO and the Mobile Challenge
27:00 - Late stage investing at SoftBank
34:00 - AI & Data for Good
42:00 - Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

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How about listening to another leading name in the Indian corporate sector – someone who has taken both Facebook and Hotstar forward in India? Ajit Mohan, Managing Director of Facebook India, talks about  his intrapreneurial journey at Hotstar before moving to Facebook along with talking about how new culture needs new heroes, the Indian consumer’s emotional and cultural revolution, when ads are acceptable, how to measure the success of engagement, the customer’s willingness to pay and more. 

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