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Panigrahi claims Indian clinics are curing Alzheimer's using exosome therapy.
“There are players who do stem cell rejuvenation. They are curing dementia and Alzheimer through exosome therapy or stem cell rejuvenation.”
Chadha: South India had only three recorded cancer cases before 1970
“Till the 19 seventies, I think in all of South India, there was like three recorded cases of cancer.”
Tripathi: Most of India's Top 10 Video Games Are Chinese
“The top 10 games in India, most of them are actually Chinese. Many don't know our money is actually going to China.”
Rajagopal: Amazon was the first to launch a digital wallet in India
“I think we were the first to you know, put out that wallet in the system in Indian system.”
Anderson: KiHealth validated liquid biopsy detecting diabetes two years before symptoms
“And we just clinically validated the first liquid biopsy test that can identify diabetes two years before you're symptomatic.”
Gujral claims Klarna rehired half the customer support staff it fired
“Less than a year later, they've come back saying we are rehiring half of those people we fired because, you know, it's really not working out because people want to talk to people.”
Padnos: VCs rate male founders higher in 13 of 16 success attributes
“The male and the female entrepreneurs responded to a long set of questions, almost identically. But when you ask the VCs, the question is a male or a female, what are the most important attributes first stack rank them? And then is a male or a female more like…”
Tepper: There are zero billionaire traders in the world
“So of that list, there's zero billionaire traders. And of the 3000 billionaires, they're split between stock investors, real estate investors, and entrepreneurs.”
Cooper: Black enterprise founders raise Series A at 5x the market rate
“When you really study the category, one in three black founders who are focused on enterprise tech is getting the series A. Right. The gross number for everybody is one in 15. Right. So they're beating the market by a factor of five.”
Chadha: Mumbai's Dharavi slum exports up to $700 million globally
“It exports between six hundred million to seven hundred million dollars worth of goods everywhere to the world.”
Bayramov: Prompt injection against foundational LLMs has leaked US customer data
“We've seen a lot of data leakages happening on, on foundational LLMs because, you know, someone in India was trying to prompt inject the company in the US, and they were able to get their customer data.”
Khanna estimates that 99% of cyber frauds target senior citizens
“See, seniors are a very vulnerable population, especially when it comes to interface with technology, using so many cyber frauds that happen mostly. I think 99% of them are with seniors.”
Tripathi: India is the only surviving pre-Bronze Age culture
“We're the only pre-bronze age culture that is still alive.”
Deora: India has more video game players than any other country
“More gamers than any other country.”
Ahuja: Yahoo and Jerry Yang sought to acquire News Corp in early 2000s
“Jerry Yang and Yahoo were chasing Rupert to essentially acquire News Corporation, you know, following the footsteps of, you know, what AOL did.”
Jadhav: The average age for ED and PE in India is 29
“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.”
Devillieres: Shein runs its $8B supply chain with just 40 data scientists
“The supply chain department of Sheen is 40 data scientists, and they are running an eight billion sales operation with like thousands of factories in the way because the control point is on the rules and not on the system.”
Heiss: GDPR and CCPA Establish Consumers Own the Data They Generate
“Privacy, privacy laws and I think the most representative one is the GDPR in Europe and the California Consumer Privacy Act. They are very strict and very clear that the person who generates the data is the owner of the data. Doesn't mean he possesses the data…”
DeMarco: Modified barium swallow is Medicare's most reimbursed procedure
“The modified barium swallow study is the most Medicare reimbursed procedure that exists in the country.”
Mounts: Joby Aviation to launch NYC air taxi routes in 2025
“Joby has done a phenomenal job. We're close with them. They're now starting to launch what's expected and hopefully 20, 25 operations in New York. Just transferring from downtown New York to LaGuardia or JFK, and we'd like to see that scale very quickly.”
Joel Martin: Value-based care won't reach 20% of healthcare costs by 2035
“Cause I certainly would not bet on It getting to even 20% of cost being covered by value-based care within the decade, for sure. I think it'll be for sure longer than that.”
Robinson: His IBM team built the first internet bank
“I think we did the first internet bank with first interstate bank, and we did first bill payments.”
Emil claims an average of 168 days pass between medical appointments
“We want to fill the 168 average days that pass between appointments, so we can keep people engaged with why they came in the first place.”
Vijayavargiya: Under 1% of venture capital goes to the real sector
“Less than one percent of venture dollars are going into this sector.”
Marquez: Carta data shows SF startup valuations two standard deviations above NY
“When I look at the data coming out of Carta I want to say, you know, the San Francisco Bay Area is generally two standard deviations greater than in valuations than number two, New York.”
Competing GLP-1 companion apps are pivoting to in-app drug marketplaces
“We've actually seen several of the several other apps in our space just recently start to add you know, kind of a marketplace for the drugs themselves within the app.”
Statter: Los Angeles Has the World's Highest Firefighter Density
“LA has the highest density of firefighters, you know, anywhere on the planet.”
Khanna: 200,000 senior citizens die from falls each year in India
“Two lakh seniors die of falls every year in India? Two lakh. Two lakh seniors die of just falls.”
Hari: Steinberger built a Reddit-style network for autonomous AI agents
“Now, what the founder, Steinberger, did is brilliant. He allowed those agents with human consent to go into their own Reddit-like social network and talk amongst one another, collaborate, and kind of be in cahoots with one another for activities, whatever it w…”
Brown: California has the highest density of nursing homes in the US
“Like, California, San Francisco in particular, like, it has the highest density of
Nursing homes in the whole country.”
Tripathi: Video gaming is bigger than movies, music, and books combined
“Because gaming is bigger than movies, music, books combined.”
Yang: Yelp stops routing leads if businesses do not reply within seconds
“If you are not answering Yelp inquiries in seconds, Yelp will depreciate next time, will not send you the lead, right?”
Marquez: Carta Data Shows More VC Dollars Backing PhD and Older Founders
“You're seeing a lot more PhDs. You're seeing a lot more older founders. Yeah. You know, at least this is what's coming out of Carta in terms of where they're seeing investment dollars flow.”
Walker: Carta down rounds peaked at 22% in 2022
“In the peak of that, in 20, 22, 22% were down rounds.”
Emmons: Latest iOS runs over 20 specialized quantized models on iPhone
“It's the iPhone is a great example of there are multiple, I think there's. 20 plus small foundational models in the latest release of iOS that are running very specific tasks now, and they've been quantized to just do that one thing.”
Jadhav: Sexual health issues are a top driver of young Indian divorces
“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…”
Jadhav: Bold Care Generates Over 110 to 120 Crores Annually
“Again, not to say that we've built something big, but we do more than what, 110, 120 crores a year.”
DAISY is New York's eighth-largest and fastest-growing property manager
“We're now number eight in New York with the number of buildings we manage, and we are the fastest growing management company for the past few years”
Lancaster: The Average MSP Uses 75 Different Technologies
“Taking an MSP, for example, managed service provider, you know, average MSP is working with 75 different technologies to either deliver their services to their customer or to run their business internally.”
Lancaster: IT Management Company Kaseya Is Valued Around $15 Billion
“I helped them Kaseya who bought it, run their go to market. And so, you know, I'd had a really interesting insight in running a You know, now valued at some, I think somewhere in the neighborhood of fifteen billion dollar, you know, organization”
Niv: Audiobooks represent about 40% of book consumption
“About 40% of book consumption nowadays is voice, audio books.”
Rajagopal: UPI processes around 25 billion transactions each month
“Just on UPI we process around twenty five billion transactions a month.”
Indian Skincare Startup Minimalist Raised Funding Involving a 4,000 Crore Valuation
“And we saw that happening in India, minimalist, picking up a big amount of money for, you know, 4000 crore.”
Sanghvi Asserts India Possesses the Largest Content Creator Economy Globally
“We're also the largest, I think, content creator economy in the world today.”
Anderson: Half of the US population lacks a primary care provider
“50% of the U.S. Population does not have a primary care provider, so they're not even going to the doctor. They're not getting regular checkups.”
Martin: Startup funding rounds post-Series A dilute cap tables 20% to 30%
“After series A, after series B, you start every round, you know, you're taking probably between, you know, 20 and 30% dilution to the whole cap table. So that, that compounds pretty quickly.”
Ramsaran: Clinicians spend 80% of their day updating medical records
“What's occurred is you've got clinicians being away from the bedside, and there's now inside of the terminal, we'll call it, but the medical records, 80% of the day taking notes and updating information, reducing what's going on at the bedside care standpoint.”