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Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George
- ▶ 38:02 Will Gaybrick Most of them are nationalized, you know, UPI in, in India. 2 times in the scene
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 56:06 Benedict Evans And the answer is, well, it depends which mark, whether you're in America or Europe or India or China.
Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show
- ▶ 46:03 Tony James And then within funds or within sub-businesses, maybe private, how do you get the guys in India to care enough about the guy that deals in New York?
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 19:35 Balaji Srinivasan So, um, one way of thinking about it is AI is like the rise of Asia and India from an American perspective, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:23 Balaji Srinivasan There's many founders who are from countries that were, quote, poor countries or what have you, from India, from Latin America and so on.
- ▶ 56:06 Balaji Srinivasan So that's not just China, but it's like India and Southeast Asia, the ASEAN countries, and so on.
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 13:53 Olivia Moore India is probably the other one that I watch really closely just because there's so many people that you can have standalone big companies focus on India. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:15 Anish Acharya We should see more divergence country by country, because obviously the culture, the movies they make in India couldn't be more different than the movies they make in China or the US.
The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
- ▶ 12:19 David George So just today, um, or I guess yesterday, uh, technically, uh, opening, I released their India subscription product.
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 44:26 Marc Andreessen I'm gonna find a new route, you know, route to India, by the way, you know, there's like a, I don't know, whatever, 50,
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 11:02 Marc Andreessen Um, and you have these, you know, amazing projects like GEO and India that are bringing,
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 10:11 Amjad Masad So one, one really, uh, funny thing happened is we had servers in Asia, uh, and we, the reason we had servers in Asia because we wanted our Indian or, you know, Japanese users to be, to have a, you know, a shorter, uh, time to the servers.
Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
- ▶ 11:42 Vishal Misra That was before India came on.
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 24:28 Alex Rampell And I pay somebody in India to go write gobbledygook, um, and then SEO the heck out of that to make money.
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 33:27 Mark Cuban You know, and our cost to, to run the factory is a fraction of pretty much everybody other than India and China, and we'll catch up to them.
Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
- ▶ 47:13 Noah Smith We need Europe and Japan and Korea and maybe India, which is the biggest country of them all, uh, to, to partner with us so that we can scale, but that requires some reciprocity, right?
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 9:29 Guido Appenzeller So I've got to find some developer in India that I do pair programming with
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- ▶ 1:03:18 Dwarkesh Patel More so like the way that the East India company was able to play different provinces in India off of each other. 2 times in the scene
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 1:03:01 Balaji Srinivasan Like the thing is, I saw this myself in India. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:31 Balaji Srinivasan Someone in India, someone in the Philippines, someone in the South, someone, someone in the North, wherever you can do math.
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- ▶ 1:08:28 Balaji Srinivasan And so, uh, and the other aspect of this is I don't think people have thought about the international aspect where, um, if you've got, let's say, a lawyer who's making 200 K a year in the US or a doctor in the West, and then you've got…
Tech Executives: AI Has Changed SaaS Forever (Don't Fall Behind)
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 42:48 Steven Sinofsky It's obviously more than an experiment to build in India, which solves their problem.
Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents
- ▶ 16:20 Anant Bhardwaj So just think of, I was working with a bank in India, and now given that AI is, has become reasonably reliable, they are offering entire lending over WhatsApp.
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- ▶ 46:08 Rick Rubin You can go to India where people are much poorer and much happier.
AI Is Becoming a Regional Race
- ▶ 5:11 Anjney Midha Um, and so you have the U S you have China, um, you have India, and then you have a number of smaller countries that decided they wanted to be flow points.
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 44:56 Ben Horowitz Are likely, not only are they very unlikely to work, um, because, you know, if you just look at, okay, where are the carbon emissions coming from and all these kinds of things, they're, they're not likely to work because, you know, most of…
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 1:12:57 Marc Andreessen Um, it was just flat out cheaper, uh, to hire people in, you know, Korea or Vietnam or China or India or other, you know, wherever you go, Mexico, it was just, it was just flat out cheaper.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 1:04:24 Marc Andreessen And it turned out the key, the key to the whole thing was a lot of people in India watching on cameras.
The Calculus of Success
- ▶ 8:49 Anarupa Ganguly When you get to immerse yourself, like leave the four walls and go to the Himalayas in India to build new elementary schools that create, create shaded regions as an architect, they're able to fully build an, an identity.
Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
- ▶ 14:40 Anarupa Ganguly So in the case of prisms, you are building an elementary school building in India that creates a shaded region.
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 15:05 Chris Schroeder You have some, you know, there've been a hundred unicorns in India.
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 6:18 Aarthi Ramamurthy We used to go home to India once a year, and we didn't do that that year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:36 Sriram Krishnan Rahman, who's huge in India. 2 times in the scene
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 9:53 Amjad Masad Someone who, uh, ended up, uh, working at Replit, their grandpa in India is like a physics
- ▶ 12:39 Amjad Masad Um, apparently it hit a nerve in some discord, uh, discourse in India about how parents push their children really hard on, on IIT. 2 times in the scene
Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)
- ▶ 54:09 Alex Bouaziz And you've got other amazing places like India or Columbia, right? 2 times in the scene
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 9:21 Balaji Srinivasan Others, like, let's say, India, that's, like, more of a civilization state. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45:03 Balaji Srinivasan Fighting, has been fighting, simultaneous conflicts with, ah, tech, with half its population, with Russia, with China, with, to a lesser extent, with Israel, India, Hungary, France, Brazil, with the Brexiteers in Britain, um, with Web…
- ▶ 2:24:15 Balaji Srinivasan Why did they leave Poland or India or 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:41:15 Balaji Srinivasan When India got independence, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:48:19 Balaji Srinivasan Once there is no longer an American nation, there's a Democrat nation, the Republican nation, you have these fractals that look just like the princely states of India in 1947, 2 times in the scene
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 2:33 John Riccitiello It's actually a lot larger that some of that excludes a big chunk of China and India and a couple of the markets.
- ▶ 26:35 John Riccitiello Then you got markets like India, where there's a lot of developers, a lot of content creators, not a lot of consumption yet.
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 2:16 Marc Andreessen Like, I think the most exciting thing happening in the world right now is Mukesh Shambani, who's the richest man in India, has this program called GEO, uh, where he is, he is literally providing internet access to the five hundred million…
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 1:11 Sanket Pathak I came from India. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- ▶ 3:02 Safi Bahcall And in fact, so much of the stuff that we take for granted and fed into that revolution came from China, Islam, and India. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 35:49 Sonal Chokshi It's like the classic discussions around manufacturing, like, you know, this idea that like, it's a, it's a physical product that is made in India, made in China, made in Japan, made in Italy, you know, um, it's very specific, and you're… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:03 Qasar Younis One of my friends who's Indian who wished that, that states themselves in India would have more of a control over their own laws because he believes that within the U.S., the, the, the states creating their own regulatory, mini regulatory…
a16z Podcast | To All the Robots I've Loved Before
- ▶ 21:21 Kate Darling There was just this case in India where an old man
Immigration Shifts 2019: Prep & Resources for Startups
a16z Podcast | The Science and Business of Innovative Medicines
- ▶ 47:55 Vas Narasimhan Hyderabad, um, India as a kind of the, the main, and East Hanover, New Jersey.
What's Next for Education Startups
- ▶ 14:28 unnamed speaker So how long does this last where sort of the big motion you see in the world is somebody growing up in India or China or the Philippines or Mexico wanting to come to a US or Canadian university?
a16z Podcast | All About Stablecoins
- ▶ 3:18 Sonal Chokshi My grandmother grew up in India in the generation where gold was literal money.
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 38:04 Sonal Chokshi I could see programmers in my parents' village in India becoming
a16z Podcast | How to Manage a PR Agency
- ▶ 6:09 Shannon Brayton Number two, if you've got, you get the phone call, hey, we're going to launch in India, but we're actually not going to put an office there or a country manager, and we just need some arms and legs on the ground, that works beautifully to…
- ▶ 27:01 Margit Wennmachers okay, I need the Indian people to do X, right?
a16z Podcast | The Scientific Revolution of Ancient DNA
- ▶ 20:04 David Reich Dravidian languages spoken in the southern part of India, or Bantu languages in Africa today.
- ▶ 24:23 David Reich If you look in people in India today, India today are the result of a massive convulsive mixture between two groups that occurred around three or 4000 years ago, and we now know that from lots of lines of evidence, including ancient and…
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 54:01 Sonal Chokshi For me, my frame of reference is I have relatives in India, 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End
- ▶ 33:51 Bryan Caplan Even in countries like India, where you have a terrible problem with teacher absenteeism, in the labor market, education pays the individual who has more degrees. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
- ▶ 10:32 Dr. Nicole Forsgren We have India.
a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
- ▶ 17:04 Dick Costolo You know, um, um, Modi in, in India on the platform, and, uh, Prime Minister Abe in Japan, and
a16z Podcast | On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life
- ▶ 13:08 Sonal Chokshi Because I'm not born in India, but my family's from India, and the caste system is basically almost exactly like this notion of dividing people into four houses. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Fintech for the People
- ▶ 5:18 Matt Flannery Without going through an NGO in Kenya or India or wherever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:44 Matt Flannery You know, the middle class of India is not going to have plastic credit cards.
a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
- ▶ 14:06 Sonal Chokshi There's actually a concrete example that just jumps into my mind about this right now playing out today, which is India's decision or discussion around not having driverless cars because they don't want to displace the labor that can, they…
- ▶ 20:06 Sonal Chokshi Like China and India. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 4:12 Matthew Colford I want to talk about a quick case study that doesn't come up that I think is somewhat instructive and important, though, and that's the U.S.-India relationship.
a16z Podcast | Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
- ▶ 24:11 Sonal Chokshi One of my favorite things I've ever done in my life was go to this Jurassic Park of India. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains
- ▶ 7:47 Sonal Chokshi And in fact, thinking about the natural conclusion of your argument is that that growth is now shifted to other countries like India, China, where they are now experiencing the kind of boom that you were describing that happened pre 1973.
a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
- ▶ 2:13 Kamala Harris My mother arrived at Berkeley, um, as a nineteen-year-old from India.
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 27:20 Dan Primack I mean, the, the perception is, obviously, there was the India tweet, and there was a hubbub over that, and then you were just like, screw this, I'm done.
a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Digital 'Pill'
- ▶ 18:17 Vijay Pande And, you know, when I think about other countries like India, India, you know, has billion-ish people and apparently half a million doctors. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
- ▶ 3:58 Sonal Chokshi And this can play out from some, a farmer in India who now sees a whole different life and the ability to connect with someone in California through his phone where he could never have done that before. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:25 Tyler Cowen But my numerous trips to India and China over the last 1015 years were a big influence behind this book, because you visit India and China, and in most parts, you see a new country every three to five years.
- ▶ 27:17 Tyler Cowen Soviet Union falls, China reforms, India gets wealthier.
- ▶ 37:34 Tyler Cowen They see new software coming in, but they don't actually see huge productivity gains, and that contributes to this static sense of the world that, again, you just don't see in India or China, where the whole country changes every five…
a16z Podcast | When Will Genomics Live Up to the Hype?
- ▶ 17:56 Malinka Walaliyadde There's, there's a lot of countries where it's either single pair, or it's very much self-pay, and consumers are using, used to paying for tests for them, by themselves, like in India.
a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
- ▶ 21:09 Sonal Chokshi I think of India where you have like bulls and cows cross the road and food, vegetable sellers and people driving like crazy.
a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
- ▶ 23:48 Sonal Chokshi Hard not to use that word, but I will say that the concept that comes to mind is this concept of Jugaad innovation, which is a term that Navi Rajdu wrote about a few years ago, but it's based on this word in India, Jugaad, which is like…
a16z Podcast | Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
- ▶ 6:48 Sonal Chokshi So in the case of mangoes, if I'm a farmer in India who's growing mangoes, and I am a consumer in the U.S. who wants those mangoes, currently I probably really can't get them. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
- ▶ 24:37 Sonal Chokshi Even beyond the Western knowledge sphere, there's so many wonderful examples coming out of Asia, in China, India, as well, where there's a lot of ancient, like, work in that area.
a16z Podcast | Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
- ▶ 13:24 Sonal Chokshi Firsthand, what you guys describe, I'm comparing it to WhatsApp and what happens with my cousins and relatives in India.
- ▶ 20:27 Sonal Chokshi One of the things that I've noticed, for example, in India is a lot of women would be really into like face lightening creams, you know, or other sort of things.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- ▶ 19:23 Anu Hariharan I remember I was one of the early WhatsApp users because I had to communicate with my family in India, and I was paying steep amounts being in the U.S. per minute while WhatsApp was free, and I could engage with them on a daily basis.
a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
- ▶ 4:30 Sonal Chokshi Did not grow up with Pokemon in India, right?
- ▶ 32:14 Sonal Chokshi And I got to see a whole new view into Diwali and India on Snapchat, which I would never have seen.
a16z Podcast | When Humanity Meets A.I.
- ▶ 24:19 Sonal Chokshi This is no longer, you know, we can have these algorithms work perfectly fine, but to have them navigate, I'm not, I'm thinking of streets like in India where, you know, there will be a cow and like 10 buffaloes behind you in the middle of…
a16z Podcast | An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy
- ▶ 3:54 Arun Sundararajan So, for example, um, about 80% of India now has access to a mobile phone.
a16z Podcast | Politics Over Pragmatism -- On China, Trump, and Smart Guns?
- ▶ 22:16 Sonal Chokshi To adapt to a place like Brazil or, you know, India or other places than U.S. companies even.
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 52:08 Balaji Srinivasan What comes after the dorm room entrepreneur is the developing world entrepreneur, and the immigrant entrepreneur, and, but especially in the developing world, and I think, you know, one thing, you know, depending on what country one is…
a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
- ▶ 29:46 Penny Pritzker It's a pilot in the ASEAN countries, India, China, Japan, Brazil, and the EU.
a16z Podcast | Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)
- ▶ 22:48 Sonal Chokshi It will be interesting, and it's always going to be an early test study, but just like with all studies, when we talk about countries like Sweden and Switzerland, where they're smaller and less diverse, and I'm thinking of an extremely…
a16z Podcast | Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform
- ▶ 14:59 Sonal Chokshi So let's develop them in China and India and Brazil and, and, um, South Africa.
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 3:37 Benedict Evans Then they start thinking about kind of knowledge graph, and you search for Taj Mahal, and it knows that there's a more slim in India, and it knows that there's a curry restaurant around the corner.
a16z Podcast | The Cloud and The Public Sector
- ▶ 13:08 Teresa Carlson We announced India.
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 6:52 Sonal Chokshi Yeah, I've seen it in India all the time. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- ▶ 20:49 Sonal Chokshi The perspective that I come from is that I was born and raised in this country, but I come from immigrant parents, and we spent a lot of time in India.
a16z Podcast | E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
- ▶ 0:21 Sonal Chokshi Joining us for that conversation, we have two special guests today, Kunal Bal and Rohit Bansal, the co-founders of India's Snapdeal. 3 times in the scene
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