E125: Shubham Goel (Co-founder & Co-CEO, Affinity) - a podcast by Akash Bhat

from 2023-11-26T00:00:51

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Shubham Goel is the Co-foudner and Co-CEO of Affinity, a relationship intelligence platform for dealmakers. The company has raised over $120M in funding from Menlo Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Pear VC and Advance Venture Partners. Prior to Affinity, Shubham completed his BS in Computer Science at Stanford University.


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Episode notes:



  1. What made Shubham pick entrepreneurship (2:00)

  2. Propensity of risk increasing as the company grows (6:08)

  3. The journey until the ah-ha moment (10:06)

  4. The aha-moment (17:00)

  5. Unlocking the operator and leader persona as a founder (25:15)

  6. Getting the most out of your teams as a leader (31:10)

  7. Things that have surprised Shubham in the company building journey (37:15)

  8. What would Shubham do differently if he were to build Affinity from scratch today? (43:54)


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