{"podcast":{"title":"The Neon Show","slug":"the-neon-show-862453","podcast_index_feed_id":862453,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1601695.rss","website_url":"https://neon.fund/","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/4me3nndjub23jxn91gn772p77ooa?.jpg","author":"Siddhartha Ahluwalia","episode_count":382,"summary":"Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journey from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. Hence was born the Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes. We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T02:20:15.730302+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neon-show-862453"},"episode":{"title":"Gaurav Jain on Building $500M Fund, Missing Ramp and Backing Irrational Founders","slug":"gaurav-jain-on-building-500m-fund-missing-ramp-and-backing-irrational-founders","published_at":"2026-07-17T11:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neon-show-862453/gaurav-jain-on-building-500m-fund-missing-ramp-and-backing-irrational-founders","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neon-show-862453","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1601695/episodes/19507363-gaurav-jain-on-building-500m-fund-missing-ramp-and-backing-irrational-founders.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1601695/episodes/19507363-gaurav-jain-on-building-500m-fund-missing-ramp-and-backing-irrational-founders.mp3","summary":"What does it take to write the very first check into a company that has almost nothing to show yet, sometimes not even a finished idea? Afore Capital helped invent the pre-seed category. When Gaurav Jain and Anamitra Banerji started the firm ten years ago, \"pre-seed\" was almost a slight, a label for founders who couldn't raise a proper seed round. They set out to build the world's largest pre-seed fund anyway, closing $47 million on a $40 million target, and every fund since has closed above...","meta_description":"What does it take to write the very first check into a company that has almost nothing to show yet, sometimes not even a finished idea? Afore Capital help…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3523,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-neon-show-862453/episodes/gaurav-jain-on-building-500m-fund-missing-ramp-and-backing-irrational-founders/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neon-show-862453/gaurav-jain-on-building-500m-fund-missing-ramp-and-backing-irrational-founders.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}