Yash Patel leads Telstra Ventures’ consumer tech investing efforts, with an emphasis on esports/gaming, social media, ecommerce, web3 and SaaS. Yash has sourced and led TV’s investments in BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC), Snapchat (NYSE: SNAP), Skillz (NYSE: SKLZ), Near (Nasdaq: NIR), MPL among others.
In this episode we talk about:
- How Yash makes investment decisions?
- What are Network Effects?
- Investing in an Esports team as a VC fund
- Perspective on Esports & Gaming sectors
- Why they’re bullish on crypto?
- Exciting portfolio companies
