Yash Patel leads Telstra Ventures' consumer tech investing efforts, with an emphasis on esports/gaming, social media, ecommerce, web3 and SaaS. Yash has sourced and led TV’s investments in BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC), Snapchat (NYSE: SNAP), Skillz (NYSE: SKLZ), Near (Nasdaq: NIR), MPL among others

In this episode we talk about:

- How Yash makes investment decisions?

- What are Network Effects?

- Investing in an Esports team as a VC fund

- Perspective on Esports & Gaming sectors

- Why they're bullish on crypto?

- Exciting portfolio companies

Links mentioned:

Telstra Ventures website- https://telstraventures.com/

Follow Yash on Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ypatel1/

Full episode post at https://vc10x.com/telstra-ventures