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Aviral Bhatnagar

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Aviral Bhatnagar

@aviralbhat

Investing in pre-seed startups at ajuniorvc.com

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ajuniorvc.com

Joined September 2016

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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
Aug 19, 2024
I’m excited to announce the beginning of my journey as the founder of AJVC, the VC fund AJVC’s goal has always been to support Indian entrepreneurship. With capital, we are now transforming into an enabler of entrepreneurship. Over the last decade of early-stage investing, I
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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
Sep 4, 2024
Stree 2 has made 730 Cr on a 100 Cr budget, a 7x return for Maddock Films Just this year, Maddock produced Munjiya which made 130 Cr on 30 Cr, Teri Baaton Mein which did 140 on 50 Cr 1000 Cr on 180 Cr this year and 3 100+ Cr hits, Maddock has left YRF and Dharma in the dust
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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
Jul 31, 2024
Infosys gets 4,200 Cr for managing India's income tax portal and then gets a 32,000 Cr tax evasion notice The irony
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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
Mar 17, 2025
Ashok Talpatra was my hostel mate at IITB His parents earned less than 10K/month, and they lived in a slum for 500 INR/month He cracked AIR 63 out of 4.7L students, and is now a Staff Software Engineer at Google in Zurich IITs are India's biggest social mobility enablers
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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
Apr 15, 2025
TCS with 3,600 Cr cash in hand gets land worth 40 Cr for 1 Rs Middle class with 50L cash hand gets a house truly worth 50L for 2 Cr in loans due to inflated real estate Capitalism favours the large, constrains the small
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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
May 27, 2023
New India: - Uber driver - Watching IPL live - Flawless streaming - Tuned into Jio Cinema - TV added in a low-priced car We don't appreciate how incredible this in a "developing" country India tech is transforming employment, entertainment and comfort
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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
Nov 15, 2022
Fastest growing languages in the United States in the last 10 years: 1. Telugu (150%) 2. Arabic (62%) 3. Hindi (61%) 4. Urdu (45%) 5. Chinese (35%) 6. Gujarati (31%) 100% Asian dominance, but Telugu absolutely surprised
Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
Sep 22, 2024
Simple hack to watch Coldplay now that tickets in Mumbai are 1.1L: Step 1: Have 1L in your bank account Step 2: Pay 40K to Cathay Pacific to fly to Hong Kong Step 3: Pay 20K for Coldplay tickets in HK Step 4: Spend 30K on food and acco Enjoy, and save 20K
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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
May 16, 2025
India wiped out almost 2,000 Cr INR worth of market cap in Turkish cargo handler Celebi India is one of the fastest growing and largest airport/cargo markets globally, losing it could be huge Impressive to see India's economic muscle at play bringing stock down 20% in 2 days
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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
Apr 4, 2025
India Ranking: Ease of Doing Business: 63rd Number of Startups Created: 3rd Number of Unicorns: 3rd Digital Payment Volume: 1st We know where the problem is
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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
Jan 24, 2025
India's real wealth classification is: 10L: Middle Class 1Cr: Rich 10Cr: HNI 100Cr: Wealthy 1,000Cr: Generational Wealth 1Cr is not middle class, and dollar millionaires are rare
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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
Nov 23, 2024
1.5L/month is more than enough to live well anywhere in India If you want more than being in the top 1% and add luxuries like foreign vacations, take it to 2L/month You can cover this with 5% each year on a ~4.8Cr corpus, the remaining returns compound More is good, not need
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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
Mar 16, 2024
Ravish Kumar's YouTube has rocketed to 89 lakh subscribers, bigger than India Today His channel is now more than half of NDTV's 1.6 Cr, with orders of magnitude higher engagement While NDTV's videos do ~10K on day 1, Ravish does 10 lakh Stars no longer need media houses
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Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat
Jan 16, 2025
8th Pay Commission could see an increase of 25-30% of overall compensation for government employees Cognizant is struggling to give 1-3% to employees, while government employees are getting big pay rises 1L Cr of taxpayer money making public service faster growing than private
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