India

“In some Indian states, it had more share than Chrome. And one of the things we noticed that UCWeb did was it blocked ads.”

“In fact, the top three breakout companies in India in the last two years are all YC.”

“Singapore and India have already linked theirs up. And so, that is a method of transferring money between countries that has nothing to do with Visa.”

“The television audience back home in India for this was four hundred million people.”

“The average TV share viewership for the entire season is 4.9% of all active televisions in India are watching IPL, like on average.”

“As this is all going down, Modi ends up leaving India and relocating to London, where he still lives to this day, and he has not set foot back in India since 2010 when this all goes down.”

“India is the largest populations of users on Instagram.”

“Cricket is the biggest sport in India, nothing else matters, it borders on religion, it has 93% mind share of sports in India.”

“The BCCI's responsibility is not really a profit maximizing organization. It's kind of a regulatory body. It's not the government, but they're tasked with developing the sport of cricket and in particular cricket in India, ensuring that the sport has longevity…”

“The Indian government says that two hundred and fifty million people have been lifted out of poverty between 2015 and today.”

“Reliance Geo comes in, thirty million handsets when they launched in 2016. Fast forward six years to 2022, Eight hundred million install base of handsets.”

“The industrial structure in India, at least to date, seems to be more like South Korea or Japan, the big conglomerates.”

“At least two more teams are gonna get added in the next x period of time here.”

“There are a lot of billionaires in India, so there are a lot of potential buyers of sports franchises in India. And there are only 10 viable major sports franchises, the 10 IPL teams, and let's say they expand to 12 or 14 or 16, you know, whatever. There's gon…”

“The TV penetration went from 40% to 74% during the IPL's run. Internet usage went from under five percent to over 60% today. The population, the literal number of people, increased by two hundred and thirty million. That is the adult population of the US stack…”

“India is YouTube's largest country by user base.”

“So the entire total addressable market for advertising, not digital advertising, not mobile advertising, in 2008 in India was two to three billion dollars.”

“Launches a social network within Google called Orkut, and it didn't become that big in America, but it got at its peak, I think, three hundred million users. It was the biggest social network in Brazil, the biggest social network in India.”