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Download 1% Club App Now! https://app.onepc.io/?c=fws-yt-vid Aviral Bhatnagar is the Founder and Managing Partner of ajvc (A Junior VC), a pre-seed venture capital fund that closed its maiden fund at over ₹200 crore. Before starting ajvc, he spent close to a decade in early-stage investing, most recently as a lead investor at Venture Highway, where he covered SaaS, consumer and AI. He studied engineering physics at IIT Bombay and graduated top of his class from IIM Ahmedabad, and he runs one of India's most closely watched pre-seed funds largely as a one-man operation out of Pune. In this episode, Aviral breaks down how venture capital actually works at the earliest stage, where nothing is certain and the company being funded is often just three people with an idea. He explains why quantum mechanics shaped his investing philosophy more than any finance textbook, how the power law governs returns in VC, why roughly 0.2% of funded Indian startups ever reach unicorn status, and why even