India

“Less than about five percent of India was actually online in, in 2009. I just, You know, look at this graph. Now it's more than 50%, right? That is basically, that's an insane number, right? You know, 10 x over a decade on something like kitchen net connectivi…”

“India has this incredible initiative right now to get a makerspace in every single public school in the country. And they've already implemented more than 10,000 of them in the past five years.”

“In India, six to eight percent of all electricity produced is consumed by home ceiling fans. Just ceiling fans. Wow. Six to eight percent depending on the season.”

“You watch, ah, one economy that's gonna outgrow the rest of the world for the next decade, It'll be India. Wouldn't surprise me to see him grow in the nine to 11% range for a decade.”

“Modi definitely has it in India. He dreams very big. He'll change that, that country in a big way”

“Cognitive separation has happened. Social separation has happened. We're still physically proximal. And what that portends in my view is something similar to do you know what partition was in India?”

“There's now more unicorns per year recently in India than China, as China falls, and India seems to be rising there.”

“And the second thing for India, any problem is a problem at scale that you're trying to solve, right? I talked to my friends in Europe, and they're looking at a total addressable market, number of people they want to have an impact. The entire country's popula…”

“Education in India was still very much top-down. So the government told you what you could teach in the classroom. You had a, you had centralized authorities that would set the curriculum for the entire country, and no matter what your context, you had to lear…”

“Every, every vote at the UN Council, Russia's backed India to the hilt for decades, consistently so, right?”

“It used to take three to five years to get a phone line.”

“It was sort of engineered to make sure that a very small number of people succeed very well, but not allow a lot of people to be entrepreneurs. There was a license system. You could go to the government, and they would give you a monopoly on a certain sector.”

“And principally because we have great tech coming out of China, India's catching up, but we're at 2030 years away. But if you're looking at coming to solve some of the greatest problems faced by humanity, it is still led by America, America's university system…”

“You have an impressive amount of entrepreneurship that's come up, and I think it's created a much more equal society.”

“I think they're trying to change that. It's going to take them five years. I think they scared a lot of people by changing the policy, but it's a democracy. It's going to take five to 10 years.”

“These are people that if you're creating a value-added product, Beyond bottom of the pyramid, you have an addressable, easy market around about forty million. After forty million, you start to hit price points, which have to be very, very good, and, you know, …”

“Zoho which, you know, the Freshworks founder used to work there for 10 years, was one of the very early B to B product companies from India though. So I think they, even as early as early 2000 had their cloud-based SaaS products coming to market, and that is w…”

“In general, that's true that, you know, people may not join after accepting an offer from you in India. I think it, it's been called out a fair number of times on LinkedIn and so on. So I think the behavior is changing a bit.”

“I'm sure a lot of people don't know that companies like Postman, or Chargebee, or Atlan, et cetera, were started in India, and then came to the US.”