Brick by Brick: The Magic of Small Teams with Shreyans Bhansali, Employee #1 @ Venmo

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Brick by Brick

Garuda Ventures

15 episodes

3 days ago

Join us as we learn how successful startups were really built, from the people who built them. We know firsthand how much successful company building is a team sport. The founders, early employees, and first investors work together to lay the foundation for the business. In the early days chaos reigns, processes and systems are non-existent, and bold moves are required daily. It’s unglamorous. It’s blocking and tackling. It’s not for the faint of heart. Hear stories, lessons, and the 'what not to dos' from the early employees, founders, and investors from startups you know.

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Brick by Brick: The Magic of Small Teams with Shreyans Bhansali, Employee #1 @ Venmo

Brick by Brick

56 minutes 27 seconds

11 months ago

Brick by Brick: The Magic of Small Teams with Shreyans Bhansali, Employee #1 @ Venmo

Shreyans Bhansali is a serial entrepreneur who was employee #1 at Venmo, co-founded Socratic (acquired by Google), and is currently building Maven. He studied computer science and economics at UPenn before diving into the startup world.

In this episode, we talk about :

- Shreyans first foray into tech in middle school

- Why he left his stable consulting job to join Venmo as employee #1

- The early days at Venmo and a crazy SXSW 2010

- The power of talking to people

- The feeling of Product-Market Fit at Venmo

- How to identify great talent for hiring

- Similarities and differences between being an early employee versus being a founder

- What he would have changed about Socratic instead of selling to Google

- Lessons from fatherhood

& lots more

Where to find Shreyans?

Website - https://shreyans.org/

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shreyansb/

Brick by Brick is presented by Garuda Ventures (https://garuda.vc).

About Garuda Ventures:

Garuda Ventures is a B2B-focused pre-seed and seed venture fund. Garuda is a first-check firm and aims to earn the right to be a founder's first call as they go about building their companies. To learn more, visit https://www.garuda.vc

Today's episode was hosted by Rishi Taparia. Find Rishi on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rktaparia/), Substack (taps.substack.com) or X/Twitter (x.com/taps)

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