Mumbai

“When he created the Taj Public Service Welfare Fund after the 26 11 terror attacks at the Taj, Ah, and ensured that this fund took care not just of the families of the Taj employees who had lost their lives, but of every family in Bombay who had lost someone i…”

“It was actually the first location, the first dark store we launched was in a neighborhood in Mumbai called Bandra. And pretty quickly that neighborhood became bigger for us than the rest of the entire city that we were operating in.”

“In this air quality here in Mumbai, it's equal to smoking over 10 cigarettes a day. If you're out in the, every day, like the entire city is smoking, you know, 10 plus cigarettes a day, breathing this air, right?”

“So you see Bandra Kula complex. I would argue it's now, you know, that small little bit, but it's in within that it's Singapore level quality of offices and so on.”

“And now I'm doing some few million square feet, six million square feet plus of office and a few million square feet of Residential, which I never imagined that I could, I have to pinch myself every time to remind myself, am I really doing this?”

“They went on then to inaugurate in 1941. What is known today as the Tata Memorial Hospital in Parel in Mumbai. That was India's first cancer hospital”

“Listen, women in this country are also really oppressed. Like, really oppressed. And I see it in a city like Mumbai. So what happens in India, we don't even know. So it'd be very unfair to say that men are more oppressed.”

“Mumbai is the costliest. Any city, like if you want to launch his beer from Mumbai, as a startup, it's very tough. The kind of money it burns, like, you know, it like I addressed Mumbai the last. It's the most expensive market.”

“No startup can literally think of having a great office in the initial period. And that's how Mumbai lost out.”

“Your mithi is declared a drain. Okay, it's declared a drain. It was a river, fresh water river. In Delhi, we have something called the sahibi. It was a river, a fresh water river, which came and joined Yamuna. It's called the Najafkar drain today.”

“You have high rise buildings, so your problem is you can't really do rainwater harvesting at the scale that we can do in Bangalore, for instance.”

“There were, they, Bala Saab Thakre asked for reservations and Very heavy reservations. Yeah. 50% for faculty, hundred percent for staff, and I don't remember, for students.”

“We are factory only in five places, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, and Dubai.”

“So the battery volume, if you look at it. So the Bangalore is around 50. And Bangalore is a Bangalore. Chennai is around 15. And then, ah, if you look at, you know, Hyderabad around 20. Mumbai that around 20, 25. And, ah, Delhi. We're almost there in 10.”

“There is a store in Bombay, Hermes. So, it's the most popular brand of the world. 60 people account for 80% of the business.”

“Shanghai, we're running at 75%. Mumbai, 64% average occupancy. Here in London, 52%. Milan, 45. And New York, 24. And in the US, I'd say we vary between 15 to 25% occupancy.”

“And you think that you can build like a thousand crore business based on the insight you got from the people you spoke to in Mumbai, Delhi. I think that is the root cause of a lot of underestimation and sorry, overestimation on TAMP. Because what works for tha…”

“So you can travel to the city that has the most opportunities, work over here in the initial part of your career, hustle, and then you can decide wherever you want to go. You can work remotely later on.”

“Okay, so Mumbai, where I'm from, and Delhi, which is India's capital, are the two probably it's one of the most used route in the world in terms of sheer number of shipments you know, and also in sheer number of people who move between them, the planes which f…”

“So it will typically cost around 1500 dollars. If you're moving a 32 feet size vehicle from Mumbai to Delhi one way that's a typical freight today given current diesel prices.”

“So in Mumbai and Bangalore, I think we were there for almost two years before we expanded to more cities and then we slowly expanded to four or five cities more, but it was very gradual and very thought after.”

“We have 52. So right now we are international. We have a, we run a thirty-seventy Onshore, offshore model. So we leverage Mumbai as well as Costa Rica. Costa Rica for the product design And then engineering takes place in India”

“So for example, while in Mumbai, I used to record four podcasts in a day. In different locations. So I used to travel by Mumbai local because in a traffic city like Mumbai, you know, going by a cab and reaching the four destinations on time in a single day, wh…”