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“So the challenge for us is that the Indian market is actually quite small, even though the customer base is very large companies don't pay a lot of money yet. So the email market plus the martech business put together would probably be just about 150 odd milli…”

“So, I think this wave, unlike the 99, 2000 wave, where it lasted for a very short time, This is really substantial and irreversible. And this is really what's going to make the future of India because government in India cannot solve problems. So whether it's …”

“The removal of the friction of the click through to a website or app, I mean, we have seen five times, 10 times increases in actions.”

“In ad tech, actually, there's a lot of, there's two hundred billion dollars of waste, you know, in reacquisition and wrong acquisition.”

“Because otherwise, like in Freshworks, more than 90% of the ownership is with investors.”

“In 2012, I stopped because I started, I was doing some work on the political side, which I did for almost six, six and a half years. So at that time, I didn't want to write anything which would I could not be candid about what I was doing, and I did not want t…”

“Because in the U.S., for e-commerce companies, 20 to 40% revenue is coming from email.”

“So we built it up to about a hundred million in by 20 20.”

“I mean, look at, what is a typical adoption of most SaaS platforms? 30, 40%.”

“So I'd say about 60, 70% of customers typically would be able to see the AMP interactivity”

“We send out about thirty-five billion emails a month.”

“We were the first, started very close to the time Yahoo and eBay did, and I sold it five years later for hundred and fifteen million dollars. 166 times revenue.”

“We're also planning to do an IPO in India in about 12 months time.”

“So our profit margins have basically been about 17 to 18%.”

“We've been profitable for 15 years.”

“So we do eighteen billion emails a month. Which is, I think, which would be among one of the largest ones. I mean, we are probably one of the few independent email companies left in the world”

“And it was the first internet website, first Indian, of course, internet website.”

“In the space of three weeks, our valuation went up from the forty million stock offer that mail.com had given, To a hundred and fifteen million dollar largely cash offer from DSP Merrill Lynch.”

“Their stock, After the deal was announced, that same night, went up by seven hundred million dollars, and kept rising on subsequent days, which enabled them to do a secondary offering, diluting very little, which then got them the additional money that they ne…”

“So the hundred million audience, which is there today, transacting audience, will become 200,000,300 million.”

“And that has really helped us in the last three years build a business today, which is seven 50 people, which is eighty five million dollars in revenue.”

“A 115.”

“I mean, we have companies in India for mutual funds collecting those what they call SIP in India, systematic monthly payments for funds. All of that's now happening inside email.”

“A hundred million plus users in the U.S. On WhatsApp. That's probably about 30, 40% of the adult population.”

“The first one I sold for a hundred million plus, and the second one I'm still running, Netcore, we'll talk about that. That's hundred million in revenue.”

“And if I look at the last 10 years, the per share value of, ah, Netcore Has grown 25% CAGR. That's 10 X in 10 years.”

“In my 30 years as an entrepreneur, I've succeeded two times. I've failed 30 times. That's an average of one a year.”

“We got a very good exit when Satya Minfoway, which was listed on NASDAQ, Sifi, bought my company for hundred and fifteen million, primarily pretty much all cash. In November, 99, we sold, I think, at the right time, just before.”

“In those five years that I ran India World, we had two or 200 sites that we managed. Most of the large corporates were either created and hosted with us, or at least hosted with us.”

“Samachar was just one page with hundred links, you know, more, more. Every five items per publication updated every 30 minutes. And that became the start page for most Indians outside of India.”

“Satyam Infoway had become the first Indian internet company to IPO on Nasdaq.”

“So in 2021, we had hundred million dollars come into India on average every day.”

“If you look at, ah, ease my trip. When they did the IPO, they had not raised any external capital. And even for the IPO, it was the secondary offering, you know, promoters sold.”

“So from 1999 till 2012, I wrote every day. Emergic.org was my first blog.”