Don't overthink angel deals - you'd happily overpay 100% on your winners

Mandeep Singh, an angel investor and co-founder and former CEO at Trouva on Riding Unicorns · Markeplaces, hard truths and angel investing with Mandeep...

commit, you know, and I have committed to people before they even quit their jobs, the valuation will be set by someone externally at some point.

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commit, you know, and I have committed to people before they even quit their jobs, the valuation will be set by someone externally at some point. Yeah. I think it's a really important lesson for any angel investors out there. I think, you know, it is easy to talk yourself out as as you say of great deals, and we we've done that at episode one, and I've done that as an angel and wanna make that mistake less going forward. I think someone said on another podcast, like, in hindsight, you'd happily overpay,

like, a 100% on your winners because if they're proper winners, they're so the returns are so outside that, like, you would have just really you wouldn't have cared whether you got in at five, ten, or twenty. The fact that you're in it is insane. So that's, yeah.

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Mandeep Singh shares a crucial lesson for angel investors about not talking themselves out of great deals. He argues that for true winners, the returns are so massive that overpaying by 100% wouldn't matter - whether you got in at $5M or $20M valuation becomes irrelevant when the company becomes a unicorn.

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This clip offers counterintuitive but valuable investment wisdom that challenges common overthinking patterns in angel investing.

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