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How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
- ▶ 49:21 Tanay Tandon And so in the States, I think like an insane policy that we have today is that a physician licensed in Kentucky, you know, can't serve a patient that's in California.
The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing
- ▶ 37:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Even if we take only history of California, the first largest wealth was created in oil, then railroads, and tech came much, silicon and tech came much later.
Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath
- ▶ 54:37 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like, 80% are from India, but 20% are from California.
Why Construction still Runs on Spreadsheets (And How AI Fixes It) | Sneha & Graham, Merlin AI
- ▶ 9:44 Sneha Kumari So I am, um, here in California, so Southern California, Orange County is where my base is at.
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 50:38 Ashmeet Sidana I mean, it is basically the failure of the California state and the city governments that it has become so expensive.
How TATA Acquired Jaguar, Tetley, Corus and Redefined Indian Ambition | Harish Bhat
- ▶ 7:55 Harish Bhat He loved California, I'm told, and wanted to settle down there.
For the CEOs of 2026, From One of India's Top Leaders | Roopa Kudva, Ex-CEO Crisil
- ▶ 10:44 Roopa Kudva One day, one Christmas Eve, I got a call from a California number, which I didn't recognize, and there was this person at the other end of the line saying, hey, you know, I'm so and so from Omidyar Network, and he said, uh, we, um, we are…
- ▶ 24:17 Roopa Kudva And, uh, then along the way comes, uh, comes this phone call from California.
The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen
- ▶ 27:43 Sachin Aggarwal Uh, I came to California, Silicon Valley, and I realized that, wait a sec, why am I wasting my time in healthcare?
With a Swiss Founder-Investor Who Built 9 Startups and Funded 40 | Thomas Dübendorfer
- ▶ 1:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you have a, I think, a good mix of what the ecosystem offers in Switzerland plus what you learned, uh, uh, in California. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:10 Thomas Dübendorfer Um, from what I heard from people that, uh, grew up in India, went to, to study, and some of them I met when I worked in California.
How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me To Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder - Featurely
- ▶ 1:02:43 Vasanth Namasivayam I want to say it's the climate in California, but, uh, I, I, I think in, when I look at the Bay,
$1Billion CRM From India Competing With Salesforce | Nilesh Patel, LeadSquared
- ▶ 32:48 Nilesh Patel but I think, you know, large states like California, you know, Texas and, you know, Florida and, and places there we have, uh, but they're sort of, you know, across.
Digi Yatra, AQI, UDAN Scheme, And India's Net Zero Goals | Jayant Sinha | The Neon Show Podcast
- ▶ 43:35 Jayant Sinha The fires in California, or the flooding in Valencia and Spain, or the droughts that we're seeing.
How Chess.com Founder Built A $150 Million ARR Empire With Zero VC Funding | Erik Allebest | Neon
- ▶ 2:52 Erik Allebest I grew up in California.
$2.5 Billion Tech Empire Built On Acquisitions, Efficiency, & Pure Ambition w/ Founder, Luca Ferrari
- ▶ 58:19 Luca Ferrari California used to suck too at some point, and then a bunch of things happened, primarily fertile semiconductors, and then it's kind of a snowball effect. 2 times in the scene
Entrepreneur First’s Founder On Indian Talent, AI Startups, Selling SaaS Globally And Silicon Valley
- ▶ 46:43 Matt Clifford He, he emphasizes his time in California a lot.
2024 VC Updates, IPO Trends, And Fundraising Advice with Churchill’s Raja Doddala I Neon Show
- ▶ 24:32 Raja Doddala So in the U.S., um, California still is the epicenter of the venture ecosystem. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:20 Raja Doddala You know, geographical concentration, like, 70% California, you know, versus 25% New York.
ISB and Ashoka University Founder, Pramath Raj Sinha on The Neon Show
- ▶ 46:49 Pramath Raj Sinha My niece was with my sister at my sister's home in California.
Why Do Indians WORSHIP Bhagwan Using Puja Flowers? | Hoovu Founder on The Neon Show
- ▶ 1:06:32 Rhea Karuturi And then in California, which is also known for its perfect weather, I would like be freezing or I'd be sweating because like, I didn't dress for the day.
The story behind Zepto w/ Founder, Aadit Palicha
- ▶ 0:12 Aadit Palicha The best excuse to be in California, Silicon Valley was to go to college there.
- ▶ 4:37 Aadit Palicha And we figured the best place in the world to go and learn that would be Silicon Valley in California. 2 times in the scene
Building Product That Sells Itself Ft. Dheeraj Pandey, CEO-DevRev, Co-Founder-Nutanix
- ▶ 47:38 Dheeraj Pandey I, within a year, I actually get to do my internship at Oracle in Redwood Shores, California. 3 times in the scene
Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Indusface
- ▶ 33:30 Ashish Tandon It's an RSA, RSA, a very large security show, which happens in, in, uh, in California every year, and, uh, I used to generally go there more there, more so to learn what are the new technologies coming in, what are, what is the industry…
Inside the mind of Jumbotail Founders, Ashish Jhina & Karthik Venkateswaran | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 41:46 Karthik Venkateswaran Ashish actually, uh, you know, did is, all of us were going on a global trip, and he was doing some project in water and sanitation in California,
Inside the mind of Ashwini Asokan, Founder & CEO, Mad Street Den
- ▶ 1:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia She went on to work with Intel in California, where she led a team working on improving the user experience for mobile products.
- ▶ 5:21 Ashwini Asokan And, uh, you know, during my course at Intel, I think, you know, Anand and I already had started talking for years before, you know, we actually decided to leave California about the kind of company we would do and
Inside the mind of Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner, Spero Ventures
- ▶ 39:26 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, around fifty million people affected, uh, by the COVID and, uh, at the similar time, you know, uh, California believed that, uh, you know, hey, climate change is a third world problem, but, uh, you know, you had, uh, fires in… 2 times in the scene
What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months?
- ▶ 27:26 Jay Vijayan We chose dealers in different parts of the country, you know, west coast in California, in southern, in Florida, then in New York and Connecticut.
- ▶ 1:15:22 Jay Vijayan There is, um, you know, California law, there is federal government.
Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman
- ▶ 15:31 Jishnu Bhattacharjee Then he moved to, um, California.
Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers
- ▶ 21:44 Ashmeet Sidana Why did Shockley come and live in Palo Alto and start Shockley Semiconductor in Mountain View, California?
Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- ▶ 12:58 Somesh Dash Yeah, so, I mean, this is going to be fun for me because I don't usually get to talk about that era of my life, but I was, as you mentioned, that I was born in the United States in California. 2 times in the scene
Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
- ▶ 12:53 Anand Chandrasekaran Uh, and, uh, um, you know, I was in, uh, like you said, in India for about three, three and a half years and, uh, moved back to California when the opportunity to join messenger and Facebook came along.
- ▶ 22:10 Anand Chandrasekaran So Freshworks has got its ambitions way outside the Indian subcontinent, and similarly, a lot of companies are moving to the US and growing as global software companies, and so being based in California, I sort of am able to spend some…
- ▶ 52:11 Anand Chandrasekaran Uh, because they are coming to visit California, and they, uh, you know, decided last minute to extend the trip or something, and they couldn't get a hotel room or something like that.
Episode 50 | Sameer Brij Verma, Nexus Venture Partners
- ▶ 11:32 Sameer Brij Verma Uh, then another one called Jovio, which is in the HR tech space in the, you know, building this out of, in the programmatic recruitment space, uh, based out of, uh, here and, and, and, and, uh, and Redwood city in California.