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How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
- ▶ 34:38 Tanay Tandon And between the Middle East, uh, Australia, Europe, uh, a couple of regions in, in Asia as well, there's just been so much interest and pull, uh, that initially it was more of a,
Money Rules The Top 1% Follow and Others Ignore | Rohit Sarin, Client Associates
- ▶ 9:04 Rohit Sarin So typically see when countries, and this has been seen in the South, uh, Southeast Asia and Asian economies like China and all in the past, that whenever a country's per capita income has crossed 2000 dollars,
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 31:17 Navneet Dalal We absolutely want to ship to, like, we have so many customers pushing us or, like, you know, potential customers pushing us to ship in Europe, even in Asia, and even in India.
He Built "GPT For Shopping" And Got 450M+ Users | Naveen Tewari
- ▶ 13:34 Naveen Tewari That it will happen mostly in Asian markets because the US already has a much more powerful, uh, platform of, uh, you know, personal computing. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:02 Naveen Tewari We took it out into Asia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:37 Naveen Tewari The idea was that, look, we will build a mobile advertising platform for driving, you know, uh, you know, driving this for Asia. 2 times in the scene
How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
- ▶ 0:18 Aneesh Reddy Asia has a very high ROI market. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:15 Aneesh Reddy Uh, so pedals on scale, I feel, uh, uh, uh, two, three things, uh, you know, um, now this is where I think it's interesting because, uh, the US thinks very differently from Asia, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:49 Aneesh Reddy So yeah, in our case, like I said, uh, we did very well in Asia, uh, 2008 to 20 12. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:10 Aneesh Reddy You know, so it's just a, I think a, while in Asia you see a lot of outbound work pretty nicely. 2 times in the scene
Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
- ▶ 22:16 Manish Jindal You can't be good at selling a customer in the US and also in Europe and also in Asia.
- ▶ 50:29 Manish Jindal Similarly, uh, even before we went to Singapore, we now have a lot of, uh, like big customers in Asia, and, and they pulled us in. 2 times in the scene
Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- ▶ 36:38 unnamed speaker I think there is, there's definitely opportunity across the overall Asia, which is like India plus the near shore of Asia. 2 times in the scene
What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- ▶ 1:10:51 unnamed speaker You know, we backed a number of companies in Asia.
How One Indian Company Powers the World’s Hotels & Airlines | Bhanu Chopra, RateGain
- ▶ 8:54 Bhanu Chopra In Asia and in Europe, uh, in terms of the capability set that they go after from a Martech perspective, they focus a lot on, uh, the display and programmatic channel.
- ▶ 29:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And I believe there would be no other better person better than you to, to give out what's happening right now in 20, 25 in terms of global travel, in terms of Asia travel.
Ola, Flipkart & Swiggy use This $800 Million Software to Send Notifications | Raviteja, MoEngage
- ▶ 38:42 Raviteja Dodda I mean, there's a harder way to kind of keep cracking these Asian markets. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:05 Raviteja Dodda I think there is, there's definitely opportunity across the overall Asia, which is like India plus the near shore of Asia. 2 times in the scene
Is China Behind Pakistan's Military Moves? | US Tariffs Hitting India’s Economy w/ Rajiv Sikri
- ▶ 34:33 Rajiv Sikri Then the first thing they have to do is that they should be number one in Asia. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:45 Rajiv Sikri The Asia, most of Asia, Africa, Latin America were poor, were colonial countries.
Growth, Migration and FDI: The Real Kerala Story with Minister P. Rajeev
WHAT Will Decide The Next Superpower? | Raja Manickam | iVP Semiconductor
- ▶ 8:37 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And despite leading in design, US became dependent on Asia for their most advanced chip making. 2 times in the scene
Lightspeed’s $500M Bet On India With 1/3rd In AI Companies | Dev Khare | Neon Show
- ▶ 27:51 Dev Khare Um, and then finally, there are a few companies that have broken out that have created the market in Asia, which is a slightly different thesis.
- ▶ 32:52 Dev Khare But if you're sitting here selling into Asia or selling into India or, you know, going as a fast follower, you know, you're not gonna, it's gonna be tough to get very, very large.
- ▶ 1:00:30 Dev Khare Yeah, but they've gotten big in Asia before that. 4 times in the scene
10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
- ▶ 46:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So how are institutions thinking about this money, this much percentage should go to US, this much to India, this much to Asia or rest of the world?
$200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- ▶ 1:38:45 Sharad Sharma Lots of people from outside India, particularly, I would say in Europe, it's France, in Asia, it's Vietnam, and Japan are paying a lot of attention to our thinking.
Global Investor Matein Khalid On World Economy | The Neon Show
- ▶ 27:10 Matein Khalid I, I guess a little too late in the date for that, but, but you know, some of the leaders in Asia, like the Japanese Prime Minister, the, uh, even this President Yoon,
SANJEEV SANYAL On India's East Vs West Divide, Kolkata's Decline, Goa, C-PACE And UPSC | Neon Show
- ▶ 36:14 Sanjeev Sanyal Whereas if you went back to the fifties, it, it was considered one of the most industrial places in all of Asia.
Rajiv Sikri Former MEA Secretary On India-US Relations, Pakistan's Decline & Bangladesh
- ▶ 25:06 Rajiv Sikri Geographically, we are in the heart of Asia.
- ▶ 31:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia They never associated themselves with Asia. 3 times in the scene
Millionaire Investor On PM Modi, India Opportunity, & Wealth Creation | Mark Mobius | Neon Show
- ▶ 8:07 Mark Mobius I did, uh, industrial research, uh, for companies like Volvo, uh, like, uh, people who were farmers, farming associations who were involved in soybean production, and that it was a wide variety of, uh, uh, industrial research all over Asia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:32 Mark Mobius I was running Asia funds. 2 times in the scene
JAMSETJI TATA: How The Legend Built Tata (Taj Hotel, TATA Tea, Air India, And Tanishq) | Harish Bhat
- ▶ 27:02 Harish Bhat In fact, Asia did not have one.
These 90 Minutes Will Teach You Everything About SaaS Business | SaaSBOOMi Co-Founder | Neon Show
- ▶ 13:34 Manav Garg It was Asia, yeah.
- ▶ 13:35 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you were managing the trading desk for Asia? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:42 Manav Garg So somebody introduced me from a trading connection into me to head of JP Morgan in Asia.
Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Indian VCs
- ▶ 22:41 Amit Somani And, and very high quality people globally, not just the US, which of course is a big, uh, kind of LP base into India, but US, Middle East, Asia, et cetera.
Global VC's Honest Opinion About India's Startup Ecosystem Explained | Stepstone Group Partner
- ▶ 33:15 Hunter Somerville I think there is increased interest in, in India and in Southeast Asia and in South Korea, specifically as people think of other ways to get exposure in Asia.
Sanjeev Sanyal UNFILTERED - Kolkata’s Downfall, Bihar’s UPSC Craze & The Indian Dream I Neon Show
- ▶ 3:38 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Across Asia, like after Japan, maybe.
Bangalore Water Crisis Explained I Karnataka Govt Failure? | Vishwanath S on The Neon Show
- ▶ 16:04 Vishwanath Srikantaiah Making one of Asia's costliest water.
Before Applying For A Venture Capital Job, Watch This Podcast! I Blume Ventures Partner I Neon Show
- ▶ 22:24 Ashish Fafaria And a global reinsurer knows even much more than a local Asian reinsurer because of their exposure. 2 times in the scene
PM Modi’s Economic Advisor On Kolkata’s Decline, Amrit Kaal & $10 Trillion Economy I Sanjeev Sanyal
- ▶ 0:51 Sanjeev Sanyal It was one of the most important industrial hubs in Asia.
- ▶ 2:30 Sanjeev Sanyal It was one of the most important, uh, industrial hubs in Asia.
ISB and Ashoka University Founder, Pramath Raj Sinha on The Neon Show
- ▶ 13:32 unnamed speaker That, um, he took everybody and made a, presented, and of course, the presentation was done by the McKinsey team, but the title was Hyderabad, the knowledge capital of Asia.
Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
- ▶ 57:56 Vijay Rayapati Ah, you know, Rick Hirschman was like their first, ah, guy who used to look after Asia, and after that he looked after APAC and, ah, you know, like, till recently used to, you know, look after Google Cloud for APAC.
Infosys Ex-CFO: Nehru Vs PM Modi, India’s Future, Corruption I Mohandas Pai on Neon Show
- ▶ 14:00 T. V. Mohandas Pai In the 1950, we had the richest economy in Asia because China was destroyed, Southeast Asia was destroyed, Japan was destroyed. 3 times in the scene
Top SaaS startups to watch in 2023 with Alok Goyal, Investor in Whatfix, LimeChat, GTM Buddy
- ▶ 10:38 Alok Goyal I don't think in 10 years I have seen that ability to build a large successful SaaS company with India or Asia as a market.
The Playbook To Build 2000Cr+ Revenue SaaS Company, Ft. Oren Kaniel, Founder-AppsFlyer
- ▶ 10:04 Oren Kaniel Uh, we serve a lot of companies in the east and Asia. 8 times in the scene
Scaling From 0 to 120Cr+ Revenue Playbook For SaaS-Entrepreneurs in India Ft. Yamini Bhat, CEO-Vymo
- ▶ 3:50 Yamini Bhat With some of the largest enterprises and I've done this work in Asia as well as us.
- ▶ 33:49 Yamini Bhat And if you look at the growth that is happening in Asia at this point in time, right? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:20 Yamini Bhat And there is no way you can sell a consistent product to public sector utilities in this, in Asia at this point in time, but in the U S you would have 3000 such companies that you can sell into, right?
HOW They're Competing With ADOBE! ft. Satej Sirur, Founder @Rocketiumapp
- ▶ 35:22 Satej Sirur So it's not a very Asia-only problem or Europe-only problem. 2 times in the scene
Investing Lessons from Anjali Bansal, Founder, Avaana Capital and The next Decade in VC
- ▶ 5:50 Anjali Bansal And then moving on, uh, was a partner at TPG Growth, looking after some part of the, you know, Asia, Middle East, North Africa, et cetera, Southeast Asia business.
What does it take to make a mark - Not so usual story ft. Manish Pandey
- ▶ 0:19 Manish Pandey Uh, then a good friend of mine, Yashraj Akashi, he, uh, he curates an event called TEDx gateway, which is one of the largest TEDx's in the country, maybe in Asia.
- ▶ 13:24 Manish Pandey Uh, then a good friend of mine, Yashraj Akashi, he, uh, he curates an event called TEDx Gateway, which is one of the largest TEDx's in the country, maybe in Asia.
From Bootstrap to IPO ft. Rajdip Gupta, Founder, Route Mobile
- ▶ 10:10 Rajdip Gupta Then we have another market which is Africa, then Asia, then Middle East.
A recipe for success with Chef and Entrepreneur, Sanjeev Kapoor | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- ▶ 1:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Sanjeef hosted the popular TV show Khana Khazana, the longest-running show of his kind in Asia, which broadcasted in 120 countries, and in 2010 had five hundred million viewers.
@mamaearthindia1509 Founders on D2C growth, ft. Ghazal & Varun Alagh
- ▶ 3:51 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, Mama Earth is also Asia's first Made Safe certified product.
Dr. Geetha Manjunath on building Niramai, the most affordable product for breast cancer detection
- ▶ 45:23 Dr. Geetha Manjunath So that has given us, and I believe is going to be a huge inflection point, um, which we've just reached, I would say, um, for not just in India, for several other countries in the, in Asian area.
Making a crisis work for you with Sanjay Swamy & T. N. Hari
- ▶ 15:04 T. N. Hari You know, we had most of the people operating out of Asia, the delivery centers were in Asia. 3 times in the scene
Nikhil Kapur, STRIVE Ventures on different SaaS models in Asia
- ▶ 1:30 Nikhil Kapur So we're, firstly, we're an Asia-wide VC. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:20 Nikhil Kapur I think when we, when we started this fund, the two managing partners that are based in Japan, and they started the fund, they always had this vision of being a broader sort of Asia fund.
Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- ▶ 10:21 Somesh Dash They will harness people in India and parts of Asia.
- ▶ 52:59 Somesh Dash So there's probably a misalignment of who the LPs are for some of the early-stage funds and what their expectations are, and I hope that as family offices get created in Asia, we're seeing that trend, and specifically in India, more and…
Ganesh Rengaswamy, Quona Capital, on the growth of Digital Lending and Neo Banking in India
- ▶ 0:33 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Ganesh is the co-founder and managing partner at Kona Capital, which is a growth stage venture capital firm focused on fintech in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
- ▶ 2:03 Ganesh Rengaswamy And, and since then I've been, I've been an investor both in the valley and then back in Asia and India for over 10 years now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:33 Ganesh Rengaswamy In India and Asia, um, frankly, very soon after we raised funding, the market became quite tough, and we decided to focus a lot more on hotels, uh, hotel consolidation instead of airlines, um, focus a lot more on digitization of entire…
- ▶ 40:33 Ganesh Rengaswamy Uh, uh, bulk of our Asia team is in Bangalore.
Anup Jain, Orios Venture Partners, on identifying the best founders & investing in Consumer Brands
Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures on Impact of COVID19 on upcoming Investments & Startups
- ▶ 5:57 Deepak Gupta I was a potential controller for Intel's Asia business when the 2008 downturn struck for a very large business it was.
Pankaj Makkar, Bertelsmann India Investments, on Investing in Growth Stage Startups
- ▶ 1:49 Pankaj Makkar Uh, or Asia, um, and so on.
Episode 54 | Rahul Chandra, Managing Director, Unitary Helion Fund
- ▶ 4:00 Rahul Chandra He was, ah, looking at Asia.
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 8 | Sandeep Aneja, Founder and Managing Partner, Kaizen Private Equity
- ▶ 8:06 Sandeep Aneja At this time, all I can think of is can we bring better, ah, more measurable, more outcomes driven education to the masses in India and the broader Asia region.
- ▶ 16:26 Sandeep Aneja That market opportunity is billions in India right now, and in Asia.
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 11 | Alok Mittal, Founder Indifi & Angel Investor
- ▶ 1:02 Alok Mittal Uh, it's, uh, the largest angel investment network in Asia, probably in the world.