...my first phone call with Abhishek while I was raising a round - Pin Point perfection with the questions a VC should ask, the questions that actually mattered. He just knew a lot about me, what I had typically done/achieved/failed in life etc. I have met several investors but no one who will actually take the time out to research and understand the person they were talking to. ... We would have exchanged half a dozen emails and he would come back with some great questions. These questions were not for him, but for InVideo - Overall, it made me look at the blind spots ... After investing, he has actively helped me with introductions throughout. Please note - I never asked for them because I did not know about his connections. They were all more than just helpful. For eg: he helped me chat with an ex-VP of an Israeli company in the similar space....

Ever since my first conversation with Sairee, and then with Abhishek about THC, I’ve always felt like I was talking to founders, first—not investors. My learnings from being a participant in the Indian venture ecosystem have highlighted to me the need for more operator-VCs in India, who are qualified to give advice on the basis of authentic, lived entrepreneurial experiences vs. borrowed “textbooks” or mere spreadsheets. Even when founders and investors disagree, in my view, that disagreement should come from a place of data-driven perspective. I’m grateful to have Appreciate on our cap table as respectful, honest supporters of our (and I am sure, many a) long-term mission.