Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma shared an email he received.
Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma is often at the receiving end of some bizarre emails, and he shared one of them on Twitter last night. The email, from a man seeking funding for his start-up idea, is a study in how not to write pitch decks. It begins with the man explaining that he studied more in the last eight months - everything from Socrates to Newton to Swami Vivekanand - than he did in 18 years of school. He then goes on to wax eloquent about his two rules in life, his assurance that he can build a trillion-dollar business and the importance of money before coming to the point of the email - his goal of building the world's number one toy company.
"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 email. "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 reason 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 end, the man revealed, he sought funding from five venture capitals by calling, messaging and emailing them, but no one agreed to fund his idea.
The funding-seeker goes on to explain that if he had a trillion dollars and if someone asked him for 0.01 per cent of it, he would give it easily. In his trademark rambling style, he then starts talking about the problem 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 email on Twitter, Mr Sharma asked his followers if they would part with 0.01 per cent of a trillion dollars if they had the money. He also added the hashtag #mails_I_get
Mr Sharma followed it up with another gem from his inbox. In the second email, a Hyderabad man elaborates on his dream of building a "progress report" app for small business owners, similar 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 revenue each year without offering any statistics, numbers or history to back his projection.
The emails amused many on the microblogging platform, racking up hundreds of 'likes', comments and retweets.
It's safe to assume these budding entrepreneurs will not be hearing back from Mr Sharma, but if you are seeking funding for a start-up, you can check out Ratan Tata's pitch deck template to help debuting entrepreneurs here.
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