New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- A casual coffee meeting with a friend at a Bandra cafe turned into a golden opportunity for a young entrepreneur to pitch his startup after he coincidentally stumbled upon Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath.

The incident, narrated by the entrepreneur Yash Gawde on both Reddit and LinkedIn, unfolded at Subko Cafe in Mumbai, where he had gone to meet a venture capital (VC) friend. The meeting began on the first floor, but they later moved upstairs. That shift, he says, changed everything.

Gawde shared that while his VC friend was breaking down the nuances of fundraising, such as how VCs think, how to pitch a business, why storytelling matters, and how clarity in a founder's head has to translate into clarity in pitch, ...