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“The government is unfortunately behind as compared to other parts like China, Russia, India, right? Some of the Countries that just, they can do things faster because the technology exists today, right? Because they own that airspace. They have a little bit mo…”

“So India was great back in sort of 20, 20, 21, and then it got a bit saturated and the quality dropped like all these speculative hype cycles. The quantity of stuff coming out goes up and the quality drops and you step back a little bit and say, this is a bit …”

“Mostly when we think about ethics, we're thinking from a Western point of view some things that might be acceptable, maybe an Indian context or maybe a Chinese context may not be very similar to what we look from a different aspect.”

“We invest in early stage enterprise companies, primarily pre-series A to series A stages. A lot of our companies are born in innovation hubs such as Israel, France, and India, and we help those companies come over to the U.S. And help them scale up over here.”

“Have an, have a culture of ownership, accountability, where people have, don't need to be managed too much, and that actually is, at some level, a strange culture in India still because folks in many, many parts are still used to being told what to do, and are…”

“I think we're already on a ride towards consciousness. We're very far away from the West.”

“One warehouse, Small team with a dream could reach 65% of India's pin codes in three years.”

“Right now I'm most excited about lifestyle. And what do I mean by lifestyle? I mean, luggage, handbags, watches, jewelry. It's a really up and coming segment in India.”

“Like yoga was robbed from India, repackaged and made a multi-billion dollar industry in the US. It's the biggest travesty for us. We lost our own billions of dollars of value because we were Lazy or complacent and can't let the same happen with Ayurveda.”

“India is not, it's a large country with a lot of people, but the number of people who can spend 10,000 dollars a year on discretionary spend is much smaller number. To take that to Southeast Asia and you take that percentage of people who can spend the same am…”

“There's a lot of cultural connect between the two markets, Southeast Asia and India. You will find a lot of Indians living and working in these markets as well. So you, for you to create, and it is much cheaper. Then going to the US. So for you to make a marke…”

“On the other hand, I think we're gonna see parts of the world take a different, you know, technology development roadmap than we did in North America and the U.S., where there's, You know, advancements that leapfrog that. If you go to India and you're driving …”

“If you take a look at, like, where are the world's largest, like, student populations today? Like, the two countries where the world's largest student populations are in India and China. And then, like, you fast forward, like, call it, you know, 20 years or 30…”

“For me I have Vige Ventures, which is also one of the ventures I have to invest cross-border in India. So India and US happen to be the two markets that I invest in today through the different entities.”

“I think India won its first ever cons like major cons awards in the, which are the equivalent of Oscars. Yeah. We won Titan lion.”

“So no part of the world, some of those tools and tech and products exist, but Meta is introducing that into India and so is Google.”

“And we saw that happening in India, minimalist, picking up a big amount of money for, you know, 4000 crore.”

“We're also the largest, I think, content creator economy in the world today.”

“If I were sitting in, say, in, in, in Europe, somewhere in France or in India or China, I don't think I'll be able to do this at all, right? So regardless of how entrepreneurial I am.”

“Today India is the number one country in digital payments in the world.”

“Just on UPI we process around twenty five billion transactions a month.”

“So even if you look at India, while absolute credit card volumes and spends have been growing, the share has been declined, right? Because the payment transactions share has been going on the UPI side.”

“Because even today the credit penetration in India is very less. Whereas the need for credit is very high. Right. And that's a real problem that I think will, and that's a real thing that we will take possibly another decade to solve before we say, okay, we ha…”

“I think we were the first to you know, put out that wallet in the system in Indian system.”

“Because the factories in the West, the warehouse in the West have a very similar set of issues. But then the factories in China, in India, they have a very different set of problems because the labor cost is not the same. When the labor cost is not the same, l…”

“And I also, and just to add to that thought process, I've seen a Bombay in every city. So there's a part of, in, and there is a village in every Bombay.”

“India is probably the first country to have two percent mandated”

“I generally feel the way things work in India is something happens in us. It takes about five years for it to reach Singapore and it takes about like four years more for it to reach India. Right. I'm just sort of culturally, that's how just things move. Right.…”

“I think the global average is going to be about 35, and the Indian average is actually going to be about 29, 30. It's an extremely young individual who's starting to face these problem statements on average.”

“You know, they're going to be about 90 odd million men in the country. Who at some point in their life are going to face E D or P. Ninety million is a crazy stat. It's about two and a half times the number of men facing diabetes.”

“Now, you know, we would be about 20 to 23% of the online India market share.”

“Very big reason for divorces in India. You know, I think there's, it's been a while, but there was a study, I don't remember if it was like a top three or a top five reason, but then it is there, you know, right at the top of, let's say reasons for divorces, y…”

“I think it's the deepest FDA that India signed with anybody as well.”

“It is harder to go straight India, India, US, and whether that's New York or Silicon Valley, it's, it is more difficult. And they are more likely to say, well, actually, if you're going to be serious here, we want you to move the whole business to US, set up a…”

“I think, you know, it's obvious that GCCs will benefit because H-one B visas were really people going to work, right? And GCCs represent work coming to people, right? So people happen to be in India and Poland and, you know, Manila or in Vietnam or, you know, …”

“LG as a company and South Korea as a country just didn't have the DNA to make that transition, and they were looking towards India to, you know, get the necessary help.”

“In early 2000, what NDS did not only in bringing Tata Sky to India and the whole direct to home revolution, but also creating a product company that became almost a global monopoly in technologies and products for the broadcasting industry.”

“And I guess the next iteration, you know, all these prefixes are going to be demised. It's just going to be the company in India.”

“I guess in some ways, GCCs are also a very India thing. Okay. And the reason why I say that is this very cultural. We derive that exhilaration that comes with The impact that we can create. We feed on the recognition that goes by doing, you know, truly impactf…”

“One is it's so hard to get AI talent globally, specifically in countries like US. Everybody wants AI talent. Meta is hiring, and so is Google, and so is Microsoft, and they'll do anything and pay everything, anything to get people. So therefore, traditional en…”

“Before you go to startup, I just want to add one more point is, all the policies of the government of Kananaga, right, from a startup policy to IT policy to ER&D policy to GCC policy to, you know, cybersecurity policy, biotech policy, Two things which you shou…”

“Three hundred billion dollars is our explanation target to contribute one trillion dollar digital economy of the country. That means that one third coming from one state,”

“It's a powerhouse of a lot of services exports, and it's actually contributed more than one fifty billion dollars in services exports to India at large and globally as well.”

“About 13% of adults in India, Are facing extremely high level of stress. Most of them are untreated.”

“We understood from the first day that people are not going to travel in India for something like this. You'll have to take it to them.”

“I think our digital public infrastructure is a unique thing that we have created and continue to create... And these DPI's are allowing us to utilize this in many meaningful ways that I think is going to be India's biggest strength.”

“A hundred percent.”

“I think quick commerce is the biggest innovation where, which had changed entire consumption pattern in India, especially the 10 minute delivery from dark stores.”

“Where we see that India could lead the world is more in two wheeler, electric two wheelers.”

“So, so we see Dutch companies also moving to countries like Vietnam or Malaysia, Thailand. So there's also international competition. It's not only within the States in India, but there's also other countries around that, That vie for investments.”

“What I see is there's a lot of competition in in offering incentives, incentives in land, in these type of things, while for Dutch companies, it is much more important that there is a, you know, a system in place that, that is relatively stable and that, There…”

“Even though India is at the forefront of a digital government, there is still also procedures that require specific paper. It all has to be signed. It cannot be electronically stamped.”

“India is not normally number one in many many Dutch companies' minds. India is a big country, a bit challenging, complex to do business. Especially for Dutch startups that have such limited time and resources. Are we going to put our eggs in the India basket o…”

“I think in 2015, India was ranked around 85th in the world to the recent ranking in 2025 was about 36.”

“We're the only pre-bronze age culture that is still alive.”

“If we can do a black with Wukong, with the age of Bharat, it will, every VC will come to India. And there'll be almost like a problem because you know how it is, like everybody has a herd mentality. Like suddenly, every VC in the world will be like, gotta get …”

“The top 10 games in India, most of them are actually Chinese. Many don't know our money is actually going to China.”

“More gamers than any other country.”

“I think Jio is also going to launch it in India, because that means that today, anyone with a mobile phone, they just have to buy a little controller. They don't have to spend 50,000 rupees, which is what a PS five cost and have a TV screen with an available s…”

“There are players who do stem cell rejuvenation. They are curing dementia and Alzheimer through exosome therapy or stem cell rejuvenation.”

“In fact, Target was one of those first examples where I saw that, you know, the Target Accelerator program started in India before it started in Minneapolis, right?”

“Yeah, we're adding about 400 to 500 a day to that as well”

“So a lot of global fintechs have tried over the last 25 years to dabble their feet in, but for whatever reason a lot of them have not necessarily survived in a meaningful way over time”

“More than five hundred million customers at last.”

“We already have more than four and a half lakh people on the waitlist.”

“This account is integrated with UPI on day one.”

“Even in India, just like Revolut's core DNA overseas, our core hook will be around disrupting Forex.”

“If you think about it, there is nobody else who has thought of it completely tech or digital first, has taken their own licenses and then interpreted the license in their own way.”

“So consumers on day one itself can open their kids account for a kid who's between eight to 18 years of age, and give their kids the chance to get introduced to finance, to the entire world of budgeting, saving, spending, with the parent remaining in control a…”

“The second pattern of spending that we're observing is a lot of spending on travel and international travel in particular, which is supported by other phenomena, like a lot of countries becoming visa free or visa accessible or electronic e-visas would just tak…”

“Today in India, we have 85% of consumers already on some digital financial app or the other.”

“For core product deployment, Revolue does not look at partnerships. What I meant is a lot of Fintechs you will see getting into partnerships with banks or others to have a quicker go to market. You would see we've been patient over the last two, three years. I…”

“The fact that India went from the most expensive data rates in the world to the cheapest data rates in the world because of Jio.”

“Given the number of Indians who are in the software industry and are in AI, you know, modeling, the number of them who are in the industry / How many of them you would have expected them to be in India is actually relatively lesser.”

“Japan has come in and now is training caregivers from here and taking them to Japan.”

“It took us five, six years to sort of break it, but today where we stand, like you said this has almost become an aspiration. For those who know about what senior living is”

“We are responding to an aging population. We are not preparing for an aging population. And I think that's something we need to do.”

“The number of Indians becoming senior every day I don't know if the numbers out there, but there are 19,500 seniors become, Indians becoming seniors every day.”

“As our world tends to age, we will probably end up in a situation where we won't have enough caregivers. Caregiving is going to be a massive issue. And that's clearly India is not prepared for it. We don't have enough trained caregivers. We don't have enough c…”

“We will be exporting some of this talent as well. Like, just take for example, tech. We are exporting so much talent in tech. What stops us from being that in a few years from now, where we'll be exporting talent for geriatric caregiving.”

“If you look at retirement mutual funds, investments in them over the last five years have grown up to 230%.”

“If you look at it from a dollar value the industry is valued at around 10 to fifteen billion dollars today. Expected to go in a few years to 30, thirty five billion dollars.”

“We don't have enough geriatric specialists in the country. We don't have enough doctors who are trained as geriatricians. To take care of seniors from that medical point of view.”

“We're talking about very soon being a three hundred million senior rich country.”

“We will, whether we like it or not, in a few years have the largest senior population in the world.”

“Now coming to India being the largest market, I don't think there's a choice, but it will be the largest market. For two reasons. As we are almost the most populous country in the world, we will have the highest population of seniors, and hence both the privat…”

“The belief system that, you know, the only successful way a family can operate is joint families. Right. That belief system is changing. Similarly, the belief system that you know, children have to be around, and that's the only way that seniors will be taken …”

“If you look at the NPS assets under management today it's 16 lakh crores.”

“So when you look at from a senior housing perspective, the view is that in a few years from now, we would need 20 lakh residences for seniors against which we are just at around maybe 18, 20,000 today.”

“Two lakh seniors die of falls every year in India? Two lakh. Two lakh seniors die of just falls.”

“And I believe that if you look at the stats that in the next couple of years, that you will surpass the US in terms of, A number of graduates and talent availability.”

“There was, the good part was there was no airline that came in for at least five, six years before, or even longer than that in India.”

“In Carrier we have predominantly a program called Content Hubs. So we have India, Mexico, and China under those under under this program, these three GCCs. Important locations, strategic locations and we want to make sure that These GCCs are not competing with…”

“So India is our deep tech center where emerging tech and all traditional enterprise, you know, skill sets we bring on a table.”

“The currently, the thing is, oh, you know, we can give 500 crores for a big actors film, and then we'll make thousand crores. More likely to lose that 506 hundred crores, because it doesn't end there. India has a very high exhibitor tax. You're better off inve…”

“Mark my words, in the next two years, India is going to be the cancer capital of the world as well.”

“95 out of hundred highest temperature cities in the world are in India in this summer right now.”

“The reason the farmers keep protesting is because, I mean, does India have a food scarcity problem? I don't think so. You constantly see visuals of, ah, you know, farmers, ah, destroying their own crop. Matlab, biste ton piyaaz kisi na highway pe pheg diya, gu…”

“Again, the West is doing this. It's a new form of colonization. And we will use water from India to cool off data centers, data that they will use in the West.”

“Speaking as an arrogant American, most, most financial innovation comes to the United States. Maybe you could argue about infrastructure, which may come from over in Europe or India, but if you look at financial innovation, it's come here, right?”