Remember the iconic dialog from the 1975 classic Deewar? “Mere paas Ma hai”: Ravi, played by Shashi Kapoor, famously told his brother Vijay, played by Amitabh Bachchan. Now, turn to the Indian venture capital-funded startup ecosystem of 2010s and 2020s. Their dialogue is: “Mere paas metric hai.” In the startup ecosystem, “Ma” has been replaced by “Metrics” – often of a kind that would make even the scriptwriters of Captain Vijaykanth’s movies
