# VC10X - Design Thinking For Building Great Products - Manish Patel, Founder, Nava Ventures

An episode of [VC10X - Investing, Venture Capital, Asset Management, Family Office, Wealth Management](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1632806986), 28 Jan 2025, 33 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/a453ddd4/podcast/play/97669425/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-0-28%2F805a7a9c-fb05-8472-cb9b-077300fab3a7.mp3

Manish Patel is the Founder of Nava Ventures. Manish has 14+ years of experience in venture capital, helping startups secure Series A funding. He also led product teams at Google and teaches design thinking at Stanford. In this episode we talk about - - Manish's story and how he got into investing - The investment thesis at Nava Ventures - How to apply design thinking to build great products? - What makes a company Series A worthy? - His biggest learning investing in startups over the years & lots more Links: ⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com Nava Ventures website - https://www.nava.vc/ Manish on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishpatelli 🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey Follow Prashant on X - https://x.com/ChoubeySahab Follow Prashant on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab For sponsorship or guest appearance requests, write to prashantchoubey3@gmail.com Subscribe to VC10X on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts.

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