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That insight became his investment thesis. While Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz were chasing growth-at-all-costs, Raghuvanshi began writing small checks to “boring” infrastructure companies: supply chain logistics, industrial IoT, and B2B compliance software. In 2010, he launched Equanimity Ventures with $47 million from a handful of wealthy Indian families and ex-Sun colleagues. His first fund was considered embarrassingly conservative. He passed on Uber (“unregulated taxi service with a legal time bomb”), passed on Snapchat (“ephemeral messaging for teenagers is not a moat”), and passed on WeWork (“they sell office space wrapped in a cult”).

If Silicon Valley is a high school cafeteria, Raghuvanshi is the librarian: ignored by the jocks, respected by the few who know where the real secrets are buried. Born in Kanpur, India, in 1968, Raghuvanshi was the son of a railway engineer and a mathematics teacher. He arrived at Stanford in 1990 with $200 in his pocket and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering on his mind. What he found instead was a valley on the cusp of the internet boom. bs raghuvanshi

“He made complex systems simpler,” he says finally. “And he was kind.” That insight became his investment thesis

“I don’t want to be the richest person in the cemetery,” he says. “And I certainly don’t want to be remembered for a hot IPO that cratered six months later.” His first fund was considered embarrassingly conservative