Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma is usually at the getting finish of some bizarre emails, and he shared one of them on Twitter last evening. The e-mail, from a man in search of funding for his begin-up concept, is a study in how not to create pitch decks. It starts with the man explaining that he studied more in the last eight months – almost everything from Socrates to Newton to Swami Vivekanand – than he did in 18 years of college. He then goes on to wax eloquent about his two guidelines in life, his assurance that he can create a trillion-dollar small business and the value of revenue just before coming to the point of the e-mail – his purpose of constructing the world’s quantity one toy firm.
“Sir me paisa to bohat kama sakta hu trillion dollar business – textile, telecom, real estate beer alcohol jaisa hazaro steel etc (Sir I can earn a lot of money, I can set up a trillion dollar business in textile, telecom, real estate etc),” the man wrote in his e-mail. “Aaj k samay air, water, friends, family k baad important hai to paisa (money) hai (In this day and age, money is most important after air, water, friends and family),” he continued.
He then reveals his purpose for writing to Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma: “Mera aim hai No 1 toys company in world (Nxt level).”
“My aim is to build the world’s number one toy company (next level),” he told Mr Sharma.
To that finish, the man revealed, he sought funding from 5 venture capitals by calling, messaging and emailing them, but no one agreed to fund his concept.
The funding-seeker goes on to clarify that if he had a trillion dollars and if an individual asked him for .01 per cent of it, he would give it effortlessly. In his trademark rambling style, he then begins speaking about the challenge with the Indian economy: “India me kisi k pass paisa hi nhi hai jiske pass hai bo deta nhi (neta log)” — which roughly translates to “No one in India has any money. And those who do have it (politicians) don’t want to part with it.”
Sharing the e-mail on Twitter, Mr Sharma asked his followers if they would element with .01 per cent of a trillion dollars if they had the revenue. He also added the hashtag #mails_I_get
Maan ko aapke paas 1Tn hai, tab kya aap .01 se sakte ho ? #mails_I_getpic.twitter.com/Tn9FKHTqR1
— Vijay Shekhar Sharma (@vijayshekhar) October 13, 2021
Mr Sharma followed it up with a different gem from his inbox. In the second e-mail, a Hyderabad man elaborates on his dream of constructing a “progress report” app for little small business owners, related to report cards handed out to schoolchildren.
“Sir we will have a 100 million paid users,” he says, explaining how that would lead to 24 billion dollars in income every year without having supplying any statistics, numbers or history to back his projection.
And … we will have earnings of $2.25 Bn.
Another #mails_I_getpic.twitter.com/FF3ffIw8oL— Vijay Shekhar Sharma (@vijayshekhar) October 13, 2021
The emails amused a lot of on the microblogging platform, racking up hundreds of ‘likes’, comments and retweets.
Agar socrates, newton aur buddha ke paas #linkedin hota to woh bhi ek baar to funding maang hi lete shayad… ????
— Sriram Iyer (@iyer_sriram) October 13, 2021
He appears to be completely frustrated by that no one is taking interest in his concept. But I genuinely did not get the beginning sentence, in which he stated I studied a lot in last handful of days. Why he was telling that?
— Gaurav Seth (@post2seth) October 13, 2021
Such emails need to be entertaining at occasions amid aggressive pitches loaded with heavy financials.
— Gautam Gupta ???????????????????????? (@GAUTAMGUPTA10) October 13, 2021
You really should NFT these
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) October 13, 2021
It’s protected to assume these budding entrepreneurs will not be hearing back from Mr Sharma, but if you are in search of funding for a begin-up, you can check out Ratan Tata’s pitch deck template to enable debuting entrepreneurs right here.