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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Bollywood comes up on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath, the Neon Show, Acquired, My First Million, Innovators & Investors
Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?
- ▶ 3:07:02 Puneet Chhatwal So just like Bollywood became very famous from India, including getting a statue of Yash Chopra in Interlaken.
S2Ep13: Stories to Systems: How Richa Chadha is Reimagining Cinema, Business & Impact
- ▶ 1:05:24 Abhay Tandon Uh, one thing Bollywood gets wrong about women?
Abundance vs Scarcity: We Built 20 Brands With 30 Strangers In 90 Days | The Foundery · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:00:27 Nikhil Kamath No, if a Bollywood actor or a cricketer is the co-founder of a particular brand, does it make such a difference, really?
Martin Escobari: Trauma, Chaos & Three Industries Worth $100B | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 12:41 Nikhil Kamath Gangsters are celebrated via Hollywood, Bollywood in my case, and entrepreneurs via podcasts like mine. 2 times in the scene
17 Young Founders | 8 Startups | 20 Lakh Grants | Third WTFund Cohort · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:01:33 Nikhil Kamath And the way Bollywood and Hollywood has depicted the idealistic version of romance, I mean, it might be attainable in the short term, but I don't know how sustainable it is.
Ep4: Indian Fandom: COMIC-CONised ft. Jatin Varma ep4
- ▶ 41:25 Abhay Tandon Did you, did you receive any kind of a pushback or a blowback from Bollywood?
A.R. Rahman: The Genius Who Took Indian Music Global | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF | Ep 15 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 26:52 Nikhil Kamath In India, obviously, Bollywood is very, very popular.
What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- ▶ 45:29 Somesh Dash If you look at, you know, seventies, eighties movies in Bollywood, it was as melodramatic as you can imagine. 2 times in the scene
Tira, Bombay Shaving Co., Inde Wild | WTF is Fueling India’s Beauty & Skincare Revolution? | Ep. 25 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:17:41 Shantanu Deshpande There's an Instagram reel, which had 20 Bollywood actresses saying, I just love how Shah Rukh Khan smells.
Nikhil Kamath x Netflix Co-CEO, Ted Sarandos | People by WTF | Ep. 10 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 34:13 Nikhil Kamath Bollywood should not try and sell or make the stories of Hollywood, and Hollywood should not try and make the stories of Bollywood. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:41 Ted Sarandos I think there was a belief for a, a conventional wisdom was that India is all Bollywood and India is all local.
- ▶ 1:21:57 Nikhil Kamath So I have a, I don't know much about Bollywood. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:44:20 Ted Sarandos They love Bollywood.
- ▶ 1:54:26 Ted Sarandos It's kind of like, you know, um, people, I think people in India and people outside of India know nothing about the inner workings of Bollywood.
Nikhil Kamath x YouTube CEO, Neal Mohan | People by WTF Ep. 9 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 18:49 Neal Mohan You know, creators are the startups of Hollywood, and I mean Hollywood, I mean Bollywood, I mean kind of just whatever, pick your metaphor there.
- ▶ 22:51 Nikhil Kamath For content like Hollywood and Bollywood, I've had this conversation with a friend of mine who was recently putting out a movie,
- ▶ 39:14 Neal Mohan That the media landscape here started to change dramatically, too, which was, there was, of course, Bollywood, and then, you know, what T-Series represented in Bollywood, but it was also the advent of things like Star. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:50 Neal Mohan There's a few things that I would say that's happened, I think, to music in, in India in general, regardless of, you know, YouTube or Spotify, which is, you know, the growth of, um, you know, Indian origin music, pop music, um, in that… 2 times in the scene
EP8: How to build a Multi-Faceted Career: Actor, Producer & Entrepreneur ft Vishakha Singh
- ▶ 21:14 Vishakha Singh If you shift to Navi Mumbai, you are supposed to be in Bollywood.
- ▶ 26:51 Abhay Tandon Uh, in Bollywood.
Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:08:07 Nikhil Kamath Is also Bollywood, movies.
#1 Reason Why Most Startups Fail - "They Don't Have A Business Model"
- ▶ 17:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You know, Bollywood actresses are launching their own clothing labels and.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:27:01 David Rosenthal Apart from Bollywood, Lalit and I agreed that we didn't want to compete with other cricket, we wanted to compete with the soap operas.
- ▶ 1:27:52 David Rosenthal And the reason that that is the case is because they bring Bollywood in to the ownership groups.
- ▶ 1:27:57 David Rosenthal So, Bollywood and cricket were and still are the two biggest things by far in India, as Andrew Wildwood was saying, like, there is no number three.
- ▶ 1:28:05 David Rosenthal It's Bollywood and cricket.
- ▶ 1:28:07 David Rosenthal And when it comes to Bollywood, there is one star that shines
- ▶ 1:28:19 David Rosenthal He writes, within Bollywood, there are B-listers, A-listers, double A-listers, and way above them all is Shah Rukh Khan, richer and more famous than Tom Cruise or Clint Eastwood, and adored by the entire country.
- ▶ 1:33:53 David Rosenthal And you gotta prove that, which means you need Shah Rukh and you need Bollywood.
- ▶ 1:34:52 David Rosenthal We got Bollywood, and oh yeah, Nokia's in, and they're in for five million dollars for jersey sponsorship of a single team.
- ▶ 1:35:04 David Rosenthal Okay, so now that Shah Rukh's in, all the rest of Bollywood wants to come in, because wherever Shah Rukh goes, you know, he's the leader of the pack.
- ▶ 1:35:53 David Rosenthal Now you've got triple A top list, one of the best actresses in Bollywood, who's also going to be a principal owner of one of the teams, who's also going to be at all the games, also in the stands, also going to have TV cameras all over…
- ▶ 1:36:13 David Rosenthal In one way, they are 90% of the market, they being Bollywood.
- ▶ 1:37:37 David Rosenthal And you're gonna have all the biggest Bollywood stars there, all the triple A listers who
- ▶ 1:39:34 David Rosenthal Second, you've got a diverse ownership group, which is necessary both to ensure that no one group has financial resources outside the system that can outspend any other, but more importantly, you really need Bollywood to be involved here…
Ep. #19 | WTF is “Making it” in an Offbeat Career? Nikhil Kamath Ft. Kriti Sanon, Badshah & KL Rahul · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:07:32 Nikhil Kamath See, when I, when I hear Bollywood is not working, right?
China Expert: “India Must Copy This From China To Stay Ahead!” Manoj Kewalramani | Neon Show
- ▶ 6:07 Manoj Kewalramani There is a shared culture of, uh, enjoying Bollywood music.
Nikhil Kamath x Ranbir Kapoor | People by WTF Ep #2 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 3:11 Nikhil Kamath Uh, I'll set context and say, I don't know too much about Bollywood. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46:34 Nikhil Kamath Who do you think if you were to categorize somebody as competition you really look up to in Bollywood, who would it be?
Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Indian VCs
- ▶ 0:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia All the top engineering, grads, MBA grads, and now Bangalore, like people used to think about Bollywood in the nineties.
- ▶ 35:24 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And now coming on to careers in VC, because right now I'm seeing like, especially all the top engineering grads, MBA grads, thinking of Bangalore, like people used to think about Bollywood in nineties, 2000 times.
Understanding Indian consumers & breaking down jewellery brands w/ GIVA Founder Ishendra Agarwal
- ▶ 1:23 Siddhartha Ahluwalia In fact, their brand ambassador is Bollywood's Anushka Sharma.
Ep# 15 | WTF is Climate Change? Nikhil ft. Sunita, Bhumi, Navroz and Mirik · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:34:08 Nikhil Kamath Why doesn't Bollywood your industry?
Ep# 13 | WTF does it take to Build Influence Today? Nikhil w/ Nuseir, Tanmay, Prajakta & Ranveer · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 34:38 Prajakta Koli Yeah, we had Bollywood kind of going that way.
- ▶ 2:52:23 Tanmay Bhat Like, I know Bollywood movie stars have launched products and most of them are tank.
Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 54:03 Nikhil Kamath Is Bollywood a big part of your lives in Bombay?
Metaverse IRL, Bollywood Protein Powder & AI Gadgets That Suck (#507)
Ep #11 | WTF Goes into Building a Fashion, Beauty, or Home Brand? Nikhil w/ Kishore, Raj, and Ananth · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:31:45 Nikhil Kamath Beast, these guys, but is not working for say, for example, Bollywood, because none of the brands propagated by Bollywood seem to be working. 4 times in the scene
Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 24:06 Nikhil Kamath But, ah, the fact that she's choosing not to do so leaves a lot of people intrigued because to a layman, to people like us who have no exposure to fame and popularity like Bollywood affords somebody.
- ▶ 39:41 Nikhil Kamath So no connection with Bollywood, but found your way there. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:01 Nikhil Kamath Bollywood was killing it.
- ▶ 2:03:49 Nikhil Kamath What's happening with Bollywood amongst Gen Z? 3 times in the scene
Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:27 Nikhil Kamath So I was walking down Bandra, and ah, it was raining, and I had an umbrella with me, and there was this guy with all these Bollywood actresses walking on the other side of the road.
- ▶ 48:52 Ajay Bijli The 10% which is not back is because of Bollywood. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:01 Vijay Subramaniam He just said that, 90% is working, 10% is not, Bollywood is not firing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:38 Nikhil Kamath Establish Bollywood actors getting paid market size. 3 times in the scene
Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 46:54 Nithin Kamath but I think Bollywood is, I think the biggest challenge being an actor in my, you know, like as an extension to what you just spoke, is actually being constantly being judged. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:37 Nithin Kamath Like, do something, you know, like, do, especially, I mean, I don't think it's a big problem in Bollywood, because I don't know if you're getting to sit for long hours, right?
- ▶ 1:16:30 Nithin Kamath So about Bollywood, right, I mean, I'm sure a lot of people will be curious about this question, right?
- ▶ 1:42:42 Nikhil Kamath You're known to maybe 80% of the country, because Bollywood is humongous, right?
Ep #5 | EdTech What’s Broken, What’s Next? With Nikhil, Ronnie Screwvala , Gaurav Munjal & Jay Kotak · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 29:15 Ronnie Screwvala I would say cricket and Bollywood for India are very internal insulated soft powers.
Ep #3| WTF is E-commerce: Kishore Biyani, Udaan & Meesho Founders Reveal What Sells and What Doesn’t · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 52:41 Nikhil Kamath And do you think celebrities, like I'm talking about old school celebrities, Bollywood, cricketers, do you think that connection has somewhere gotten lost because people have assumed 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:36 Kishore Biyani Today, the entire Hindi-Bollywood team is still struggling.
No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
- ▶ 31:25 Emad Mostaque So like now we're training on hundreds and soon thousands of Bollywood movies to create Bollywood video models with our partnership with Eros, um, you know, and that is exclusively licensed.
From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
- ▶ 2:16 Aprameya Radhakrishna The influencers, whether it's the cricketer or the Bollywood person or a spiritual leader or politician, so they are making, they're, you know, expressing themselves in English most of the time, and they're connecting to the English…
#1 WTF is Metaverse? WTF is with Nikhil Kamath ft. Tanmay Bhat, Umang Bedi & Aprameya Radhakrishna · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 15:40 Aprameya Radhakrishna It's like a micro Bollywood movie. 2 times in the scene
Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva
Status-driven Indian Society, Learnings, & Building For Bharat- Lal Chand Bisu, CEO, Kuku FM
- ▶ 4:30 Lal Chand Bisu Everyone believes, like, agar bade log believe karte hain, kya, agar, koi bollywood celebrity, koi achi dress paan ke rakta hai, toh, I will also buy that.
Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- ▶ 28:09 Kunal Shah Uh, I would say 80, 85% of Bollywood revenue comes from like 10, 15 people. 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 2:40:23 Balaji Srinivasan Bollywood is going to take over the world. 2 times in the scene
Power of Storytelling ft. Roshan Abbas, Investor | Entrepreneur | Actor | Director | Producer
- ▶ 15:15 Roshan Abbas Uh, so I was there, big gold Bollywood.
Mastermind behind @beerbiceps and Monk Entertainment Viraj Sheth on Influencer Marketing
- ▶ 4:21 Viraj Sheth That is when I would say was sort of, um, you know, the inflection point where brands actively started considering influencer marketing and realizing that, Hey, it's actually also the creators who we need to start working with and not… 2 times in the scene
If you don't monetize your hobby, it will die.- Abhishek Asthana on Creativity & Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 24:38 Abhishek Asthana I took up a moniker of a Bollywood handle, which also helped get me the initial number of followers.
Khan Academy: Sal Khan
Nikhil Kapur, STRIVE Ventures on different SaaS models in Asia
- ▶ 3:55 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Do you enjoy, like, is there in VC a certain, you know, Kapoor clan, like Mitch Kapoor, Nikhil Kapoor, which you enjoy, like being a, like Bollywood Kapoor?
20VC: Cameo's Steven Galanis on Why You Must Fall In Love With Your Mission Not Your Product, How To Extract As Much Value From Your Investor Base As Possible & Should You Really Hire For 6 Months Ahead of What You Need?
- ▶ 16:05 Steven Galanis You know, imagine how big this could be in Bollywood, or how big this could be in, uh, Korea with K-pop, or in Brazil, or in Mexico with telling novellas.
a16z Podcast | Building Worlds with VR, Art, and Narrative
- ▶ 36:53 Sonal Chokshi By the way, Indian movies still have intermissions, and then Bollywood movies, they still have intermissions.