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“I don’t want to be the richest person in the cemetery,” he says. “And I certainly don’t want to be remembered for a hot IPO that cratered six months later.”

That insight became his investment thesis. While Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz were chasing growth-at-all-costs, Raghuvanshi began writing small checks to “boring” infrastructure companies: supply chain logistics, industrial IoT, and B2B compliance software. In 2010, he launched Equanimity Ventures with $47 million from a handful of wealthy Indian families and ex-Sun colleagues. His first fund was considered embarrassingly conservative. He passed on Uber (“unregulated taxi service with a legal time bomb”), passed on Snapchat (“ephemeral messaging for teenagers is not a moat”), and passed on WeWork (“they sell office space wrapped in a cult”). bs raghuvanshi

“He made complex systems simpler,” he says finally. “And he was kind.” “I don’t want to be the richest person