Bhavish Aggarwal & Ankit Bhati on VC vs Bootstrapping

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The trade-off between outside capital and founder control.

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Ola Electric — Encyclopedia entry (founding, IPO, gigafactory)

Funding velocity was fast: 56 million dollars from Tiger Global and Matrix India in February 2019, an undisclosed Series A cheque from Ratan Tata in May 2019, then a 250-million-dollar Series B from SoftBank in July 2019 that crossed the one-billion-dollar valuation mark — the unicorn tag arrived in under 30 months from founding.

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