Exponential Engineers with Ashmeet Sidana

About this episode

The episode features Ashmeet Sidana discussing his journey from engineer to venture capitalist and his focus on technical insights in startups.

Today on the show, we have a special guest — Ashmeet Sidana, the founder of Engineering Capital. Ashmeet started his career as an engineer at some great companies like Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics before founding his own company, getting it acquired, and eventually starting his venture capital firm, Engineering Capital. With his strong engineering background, Ashmeet looks for startups that have a technical insight — something unique that gives them an edge over their competitors. This focus on technical insight sets Engineering Capital apart from other VC firms that often emphasize market insight or distribution insight or some other kind of advantage. We talked about AI, Exponential Engineers, Entrepreneurship, and had a lot of fun.

People in this episode

Guest: Ashmeet Sidana

Topics covered

• AI
• Exponential Engineers
• Entrepreneurship
• Venture Capital
• Technical Insight

Keywords

• Ashmeet Sidana
• Engineering Capital
• venture capital
• technical insight
• entrepreneurship
• AI
• startups

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Engineering Capital, Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphics

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