Unlike many investors, Kumar also doesn’t subscribe to the growth-first-revenue-later mentality that runs throughout Silicon Valley. While that approach has worked out nicely so far for the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare, Kumar says that anything he backs has to have a direct revenue model.

His other criterion include that he’ll only work with “technical founders – a team that’s capable of building its own product,” he’ll only back a company with a “radically new technology or that’s participating in a market where money hasn’t been changing hands prior,” and the company has to be in the Bay Area.