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57 statements across 48 episodes · 26 bullish · 9 bearish · 45 people on the record · first statement Jul 13, 2019 by T. N. Hari · said 712 times in 192 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Everything said about Google, oldest first

Jul 13, 2019
Opinion
Delivery workers are in as much demand as top Google tech talent
“Delivery boys, especially bikers are in hot demand. They are in as much demand as the best tech folks that join companies like Google.”
T. N. Hari Jul 13, 2019 ▶ 17:49 How did TaxiForSure get acquired for $200 million? | T. N. Hari, Advisor, Fundamentum
Aug 20, 2019 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Google and Facebook capture over 80% of India's $3B digital ad market
“So it's like about, I think two and a half, 3,000,000,080 percent sitting with Google, Facebook, maybe slightly even more.”
Mayank Khanduja Aug 20, 2019 ▶ 19:10 When your competitors raise heavily from VC's | Mayank Khanduja, SAIF Partners
Feb 24, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mohapatra: Google balance-sheet investments require strategic alignment and run slower
“Google itself where, at least I was trying to make investments out of, ah, there's always a strategic angle to those investments, so they are slower in process a lot of things have to add up, not just economic, but, you know, like strategic value to the compan…”
Hemant Mohapatra Feb 24, 2020 ▶ 24:32 Episode 53 | Hemant Mohapatra, Partner, Lightspeed India Partners
Jul 19, 2020 negative
Opinion
Pai: Amazon and Microsoft move slowly and are process-oriented like analog companies
“You worked in a large company, and when I say large company, I'm also saying large tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft. These are as process-oriented as some of the other analog companies. So they move slowly in a very process-oriented fashion, and maybe Goo…”
Sajith Pai Jul 19, 2020 ▶ 57:24 Sajith Pai, Blume Ventures on building personal brands, being open-minded, and unlearning to succeed
Dec 7, 2020 bearish
Opinion
Asokan: Competing for talent in Silicon Valley requires 10x more capital
“You're not going to compete with the Google in the Valley. You are absolutely not going to be able to compete without, you know, 10 times, 20 times the capital that you get to raise in India, right?”
Ashwini Asokan Dec 7, 2020 ▶ 21:22 Inside the mind of Ashwini Asokan, Founder & CEO, Mad Street Den
Feb 23, 2021
Assertion Supported
AltaVista was larger than Google when Majumdar joined as UK COO
“And then I joined AltaVista as employee number three in UK as chief operating officer, and then build the whole team of AltaVista, which at that point in time was a bigger search engine than even Google.”
Bhaskar Majumdar Feb 23, 2021 ▶ 3:33 Bhaskar Majumdar, Founder of Unicorn India Ventures on his unconventional bets in Investing
Mar 3, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Rastogi: Locus links OKRs directly to performance appraisals
“That book on the Google, it mentions that in the Google, they don't link OKRs with appraisals, because that impacts ambitious goals. We haven't done it that way. Right now, we have linked it, and we are more like, you know, it's fine if you reach 70, 80% but w…”
Nishith Rastogi Mar 3, 2021 ▶ 40:33 Inside the mind of Nishith Rastogi, Co-Founder & CEO, Locus
May 10, 2021 positive
Insight
Pratilipi CEO: Long-form text and improving vernacular search drove growth
“Long form text content is like the holy grail of what search generally wants. So I think organic search kind of helped us quite a bit and it kept on improving over a period of time because Google kept on getting better at organic search in Indian languages.”
Ranjeet Pratap Singh May 10, 2021 ▶ 7:05 Inside the mind of Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-Founder, Pratilipi | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
Jun 28, 2021
Assertion Supported
Adam: Google invested $7 million in Fynd's $10 million funding round
“So Google, I think the round was 10, was total ten million dollars in which Google contributed seven million dollars. And the remaining came a mix of between ProRata and some other family offices also joining the round.”
Farooq Adam Jun 28, 2021 ▶ 39:29 Journey of Reliance acquiring Fynd, with Founder, Farooq Adam | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
Jul 26, 2021 positive
Insight
D2C brands compete easier with FMCG giants online than physical offline
“It's easier for me to compete with Gillette and Nivea on Amazon or on Google, as opposed to in Two million stores.”
Shantanu Deshpande Jul 26, 2021 ▶ 17:04 Brand Building, fundraising by the founder of Bombay Shaving Company, Ex- McKinsey, IIM
Aug 16, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gupta: Route Mobile spent 3.5 years onboarding Google as a client
“So I was working with Google almost seven years back, you know, like, and they say, I want to onboard Google as my customer. So it took almost three and a half years for me to onboard Google as a customer”
Rajdip Gupta Aug 16, 2021 ▶ 24:06 From Bootstrap to IPO ft. Rajdip Gupta, Founder, Route Mobile
Sep 6, 2021 neutral
Insight
Kola: Most successful founders do not come from big-tech executive roles
“The so-called pedigree is not as important to me as the potential. So I'm assessing for the potential, but not your past is a small indicator of your future, especially for an entrepreneur, especially for a first time entrepreneur. Most successful entrepreneur…”
Vani Kola Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 16:31 Why & How Clarity and Depth outscores storytelling ft Vani Kola, Managing Director, Kalaari Capital
Sep 20, 2021 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jain: Recruitment industry has completely failed to adopt modern ad tech
“That technology is so advanced, and it's, in a simplistic way, it's ad tech. It's what Google does. It's what Amazon does at the core of it. That technology has not been implemented or used in any shape or form in our industry.”
Kshitij Jain Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 7:14 Kshitij Jain, Founder Joveo, a 2x founder on must-have skills for entrepreneurs
Sep 27, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wakefit reached 21 crore INR in revenue with zero paid marketing
“Till we were doing this 21 close-up business, we had spent zero marketing. Like, there was no money involved. No Facebook, no Google, no Amazon, nothing. Like, it was going autopilot.”
Ankit Garg Sep 27, 2021 ▶ 33:49 How @Wakefit became a 700 crore revenue D2C brand ft. Founder, Ankit Garg | The Neon Show
Sep 27, 2021 positive
Insight
Online marketplaces can scale early D2C brands to 1 crore monthly revenue
“I think online platforms, Facebook ads, Google ads, Amazon, Flipkart, they are more than capable. Could take you a crore rupees a month also without, without actually thinking about distribution.”
Ankit Garg Sep 27, 2021 ▶ 50:24 How @Wakefit became a 700 crore revenue D2C brand ft. Founder, Ankit Garg | The Neon Show
Nov 8, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Singhal: Tomorrow's Google, Facebook, and Microsoft will originate on blockchain
“Tomorrow's Google, Facebook, Microsoft, we believe would originate on blockchain, right? And hopefully would come from India, right?”
Ashish Singhal Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 25:23 The rise of crypto with 1.5 cr+ Indian investors ft. Ashish Singhal, Founder, Coinswitch
Jul 12, 2022
Insight
Mayya: Ambitious product visions attract and retain talent better than agencies
“It's easier to build a Google than it is to build an agency, because if you say that, okay, your longterm goal is to build, let's say artificial general intelligence. You are more likely to pick up smart talent that wants to work with you. And who will stick w…”
Varun Mayya Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 15:55 Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
Aug 3, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vikas Nahar says e-commerce customer acquisition cost typically runs 500 rupees
“For example, when you want to promote your own website, acquiring a customer on an Instagram or a Facebook or even on Google, it's like, you know, typically the CAC, the acquisition of, the customer acquisition cost is typically, you know, 500 hundred rupees.”
Vikas Nahar Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 18:13 The Newest SHARK in Shark Tank India Ft. Vikas Nahar, Founder-Happilo
Sep 12, 2022 positive
Opinion
Consumer Brands Succeed by Outperforming Competitors on Paid Ads
“I think today, according to me, if you ask me, most of consumer brands will succeed if they're able to crack Facebook and Google and LinkedIn ads. Better than others, right?”
Vaibhav Sisinty Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 8:17 Helping Startups Grow Through Engineered Organic Marketing Ft. Vaibhav Sisinty, Founder-GrowthSchool
Dec 26, 2022 positive
Insight
Khurma: Fact memorization has lost educational value compared to creative reasoning
“There's no point anymore in teaching students facts or helping them memorize things that, you know, can instantly be looked up on Google, for example. What will become valuable is the ability to think new things, is the ability to be creative.”
Manan Khurma Dec 26, 2022 ▶ 23:48 The Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Fail! Ft. Manan Khurma, Founder - Cuemath | 100x Entrepreneur
Apr 3, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Radhakrishna: No Indian company exists among global consumer tech giants
“So when you say global tech, it's Google, Facebook, Twitter, you know, Microsoft, everybody else. There is no Indian name there.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 29:05 From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
Aug 25, 2023 neutral
Insight
Chopra: Corporate mission statements always take a backseat to profit
“Missions of companies are good stories. but they always take a backseat when it comes to companies being in the marketplace, because Almost always the economic considerations takes the forefront. So Google's don't be evil, Apple's think different, whatever mi…”
Paras Chopra Aug 25, 2023 ▶ 37:41 Wealth Creation, Life's Purpose, Brotherly Stories - Paras & Pallav on Building Global SaaS Products
Sep 1, 2023 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Rayapati: Trilogy paid more than Google and Microsoft in mid-2000s India
“They used to hire like, ah, top of the top, you know. And, ah, they used to pay a lot more than Google, Microsoft Amazon, you know, any of these players back then, right?”
Vijay Rayapati Sep 1, 2023 ▶ 29:33 Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
Dec 9, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Ghosh: US tech firms began shifting core product work to India between 2006-2014
“During my time at Yahoo and LinkedIn, I had fairly large teams sitting in Bangalore and a few, few in Hyderabad. And this was my, the team's reporting that was during 2006 to 2014. And at that time, Google was coming in in a big way. Facebook came a bit later.…”
Bhaskar Ghosh Dec 9, 2023 ▶ 16:06 American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
Feb 2, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Agarwal: Gen Z Uses ChatGPT Over Google for Search
“Instead of going to Google to search for the information, they're searching on ChatGPT. They're just going and searching on the ChatGPT now, or asking the question and getting the more precise answer. And even for learning things that they're going more to thi…”
Manoj Agarwal Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 34:02 Deepfakes, AGI, Jobs Under Threat & More | DevRev Founder, Manoj Agarwal | Neon Show
Feb 2, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Agarwal: Centralized conversational interfaces routing backend apps will arrive much sooner
“From the user perspective, they can just come and ask and it has to leave then transfer to the right app... You're right. That's like, okay, I can come to the Google. I can ask a question and it should just figure it out. Like, okay, which app and how to get t…”
Manoj Agarwal Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 48:38 Deepfakes, AGI, Jobs Under Threat & More | DevRev Founder, Manoj Agarwal | Neon Show
Mar 15, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Sasi: Indian researchers rank in top ten on Google and Meta bounties
“In fact, if you look at Facebook or Google's bug bounty is where companies pay security folks money to find a security incident. So they, Google typically pays 10,000 dollars, which is what, seven lakh for a good security bug. Now, in the top three list of eac…”
Rahul Sasi Mar 15, 2024 ▶ 23:55 Darkest Indian SCAMS - Jamtara, Aadhaar Data, And Dark Web Secrets I Rahul Sasi I The Neon Show
Mar 15, 2024 positive
Insight
Sasi: Privacy regulations hamper ad giants while driving cybersecurity business growth
“And if you look at the, if you look at this space, the last 10 regulations that came is a headwind for marketing companies, Google, Facebook. Their business is hampered by this. But cybersecurity market is booming because of these same regulations. This is a h…”
Rahul Sasi Mar 15, 2024 ▶ 57:03 Darkest Indian SCAMS - Jamtara, Aadhaar Data, And Dark Web Secrets I Rahul Sasi I The Neon Show
Apr 13, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mayya: Google will win the AI race because it controls distribution
“They own YouTube. They own Android. They own the browser. They own distribution. So, no matter who builds the LLM, like I said, LLMs are going to be commoditized. They are going to win the game.”
Varun Mayya Apr 13, 2024 ▶ 59:17 Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice
Jun 20, 2024 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Batchu: Google and Meta boomerang policies preserve equity within six months
“Both Google and Facebook have boomerang policies. I don't know if you know about this, but basically if you come back within four to six months, To Facebook or Google, they will just restart the clock on your equity package. So you won't lose your vested equit…”
Sri Batchu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 27:43 Wealth Creation For Employees Explained By Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor) I The Neon Show
Sep 13, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Krishna: Google invested $100M with Social Finance for career impact bonds
“Recently Google put a hundred million dollars into a fund along with Social Finance to set up Career impact bonds, which will allow people to go and acquire some Google certification for free, but have to repay only if they earn more than say, 40,000 dollars a…”
Sridhar Krishna Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 29:31 Employment Researcher - “India Needs 20 Million Jobs Yearly For Demographic Advantage!” Sridhar K
Sep 28, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Parekh: India won't build a tech giant for another 15 years
“So whether we'll get a Microsoft, Google, or we'll get a generative AI startup in India, I don't know, or something else which will happen, but it's not going to happen in the next five years. But it'll probably, you think the probability of that happening in …”
Vipul Parekh Sep 28, 2024 ▶ 43:35 BigBasket Co-founder on 10 Min Delivery, TATA Acquisition, Wealth Creation & More | Neon Show
Dec 20, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Khalid: Bought Google Stock and Sold Puts, Seeing Further Upside
“I actually bought Google. I was selling puts on Google all through the, all through its rise, and I still think it's got some way to go.”
Matein Khalid Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 24:12 Global Investor Matein Khalid On World Economy | The Neon Show
Jan 4, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
One of Facebook India's first seven hires was for Learning & Development
“The first seven hires of Facebook was someone from L&D, which was a learning that came from a lot of our leaders coming from Google, and what is it that they thought was important from building a company and an organization.”
Kirthiga Reddy Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 34:08 How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
Jan 4, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Reddy passed on pre-IPO Google, doubting the search engine market size
“When I was at in, I interviewed with Google during its pre-IPO times. And this during my MBA. Right. And I walked away thinking, how big can a search engine really be? Okay. Famous. So I, you know, I don't even think I pursued it like really hard. I just explo…”
Kirthiga Reddy Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 26:26 How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
Mar 15, 2025 positive
What-if
Sharma: Antitrust Action Against Internet Explorer Enabled Google And Facebook
“So about 23 years ago, had they not challenged the monopoly of Internet Explorer, I can tell you Google would not be an important company it is today. You know, you won't have had Facebook as an independent company that you have today. You know, even the curre…”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 1:01:50 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Insight
Khare: Post-COVID Indian Startups Favor Organic Growth Over Paid Ads
“I think post COVID, post sort of the air coming out of the growth sort of investing market in India, a lot of companies not only right size their models, but the new companies starting have started with a whole different mindset. For example, a lot of the cons…”
Dev Khare Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 16:35 Lightspeed’s $500M Bet On India With 1/3rd In AI Companies | Dev Khare | Neon Show
Apr 28, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rayapati: Senior leadership tenure at Big Tech ranges from 7 to 15 years
“When you look at really good companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, even Oracle. The leadership tenure, especially senior leadership tenure is, as I said, anywhere from seven, eight years to even 15 years.”
Vijay Rayapati Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 13:49 How To Hire, Train & Retain Talent To Build A Great Company | Vijay Rayapati | Khadim Batti
Jul 4, 2025 negative
Insight
Chopra: Indexing startup strategy on outlier successes like Google is highly risky
“I think indexing on these outliers is, is also very risky for entrepreneurs. In our head, the stories of Google, Facebook dominates, but in reality, what would happen is you will end up making the median B to C app or the median SAS company.”
Paras Chopra Jul 4, 2025 ▶ 15:20 Paras Chopra: How To Build A Successful Startup In India | Sold Wingify For $200 Million
Sep 13, 2025
Disclosure
Darisi: Atomicwork currently spends zero dollars on Google digital ads
“We don't spend any money in Google digital ads.”
Kiran Darisi Sep 13, 2025 ▶ 25:43 4 Startups. 2 Founders and 3 Eras Of SaaS: Installable → Cloud → AI | Sreedhar & Kiran
Sep 19, 2025 positive
Opinion
Garg: Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI lead the consumer AI battle
“Ah, but really when you think about the players today, I think the three contenders today are really Anthropic, Google, And OpenAI, and I think Microsoft and Meta are sort of fast followers, ah, and Apple is the dark horse.”
Ashu Garg Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 22:05 GPT-5 is NOT Your Competitor It's GPT-7 |Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital | Databricks,Turing, Cohesity
Sep 30, 2025 neutral
Insight
Brand Storytelling Beats Backlinks for AI-Era Google Ranking, Says Sharma
“Google sees that Astra as a brand is putting out a lot of content on YouTube or other channels, and other people are actually putting a lot of content about Astra and marking it as a top-end test company, and it has nothing to do with backlinks. Then Google wi…”
Shikhil Sharma Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 6:54 How to Build a Startup in 2025? | Shikhil, Co-Founder Astra Security
Oct 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Rajeev Motwani's theoretical research led to Google's PageRank and AnchorText algorithms
“I think Rajiv's work in fundamental computer science, in theoretical computer science, has led to many algorithms, actually. One of which turned out to be PageRank and AnchorText, and those two algorithms powered the search that ultimately became Google.”
Asha Jadeja Motwani Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 3:43 Why YOU Should Know About Rajeev Motwani, a Genius Indian-American Professor
Oct 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Rajeev Motwani was one of only five people given Google founder shares
“And so Rajiv got founder shares in the company. And I think it was four or five people only that got founder shares apart from Larry and Sergey.”
Asha Jadeja Motwani Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 4:02 Why YOU Should Know About Rajeev Motwani, a Genius Indian-American Professor
Oct 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Vinod Khosla offered half a million dollars to acquire early Google
“And I have a feeling that Vinod had made an offer to buy out this, you know, budding little search engine for half a million dollars or something, you know, and people were tempted at that time because nobody had the money in those days.”
Asha Jadeja Motwani Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 5:55 Why YOU Should Know About Rajeev Motwani, a Genius Indian-American Professor
Oct 24, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Bajaria: Major Ad Platforms in 2017 Could Not Target Specific Companies
“No advertising platform, whether it you take from Google to at that time, it was AppNexus to trade anybody, right, knew how to target accounts or companies.”
Viral Bajaria Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 29:37 6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria
Dec 30, 2025 positive
Opinion
The foundational DNA of Google is late Stanford professor Rajiv Motwani
“Yes, the DNA of Google is Rajiv Motwani. That's the DNA. And every Indian should know that.”
Asha Jadeja Motwani Dec 30, 2025 ▶ 17:15 Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
Dec 30, 2025
Assertion Supported
Rajiv Motwani received founder shares in Google rather than seed equity
“Rajiv was not a seed investor. He was a founding stakeholder. So they gave him shares, you know, as a founder.”
Asha Jadeja Motwani Dec 30, 2025 ▶ 18:48 Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
Dec 30, 2025
Disclosure
Atomicwork relies on outbound sales and spends zero on Google ads
“Our product managers are outbound. Our sales is outbound. We don't spend any money in Google digital ads, right?”
Kiran Darisi Dec 30, 2025 ▶ 15:12 Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
Apr 16, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Nair: Anthropic leads in coding but lags behind in imaging and reasoning
“For example, coding. Anthropic has gotten the best model. Now, OpenAI is trying to catch up. But when it comes to reasoning definitely OpenAI models and Google models are better. Imaging like Anthropic sucks.”
Sudheesh Nair Apr 16, 2026 ▶ 42:49 After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
Jul 14, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Dalal: Nest shipped the first deep learning algorithm in the wild in 2016
“I worked on Nest camera algorithms, and through this experience, we did ship the first deep learning algorithm in the wild in 2016 on Nest cameras.”
Navneet Dalal Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 2:12 And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
Jul 14, 2026
Disclosure
Nariyawala: Google acquired Flutter for roughly $35M after $1.5M raised
“So, so we raised about one and a half million there. So it was very early on back then. There were no pre-said funds. There were no neon funds that we would raise from. So it was actually very different world. And then we were acquired for about 35.”
Mehul Nariyawala Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 40:22 And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Jain: Firebase founders became early Afore Capital LPs and founded Tasklet
“I was a seed investor in Firebase back in 2012. They sold out to Google. It was a great outcome for us, but also More importantly, became one of the most used developer tools in the world. And they helped really build that inside of Google. Then they spun out …”
Gaurav Jain Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 48:54 We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
Jul 31, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Krishnan: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models are within a hair's breadth of parity
“I do think these you know, models of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have definitely gotten to the point where they are within a sort of hair's breadth of each other, ultimately. Yes, there are the, in domain A, one model might be better, in domain B, the other mode…”
Vijay Krishnan Jul 31, 2026 ▶ 7:41 The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing
Sep 3, 2026 negative
Opinion
Tandon: US antitrust targeting Google and Facebook ignores healthcare monopolies
“The fact that they're coming after like Facebook and Google makes no sense. Like it's so easy to switch between Google and some other search engine if you want. It's almost impossible to change the hospital that you visit because it is quite literally a region…”
Tanay Tandon Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 52:55 How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
Sep 8, 2026 positive
Insight
Gupta says Silicon Valley enterprise early adopters' risk tolerance drives startup success
“And then also for enterprise space, you know, if you look at Google, Facebook, Intel, all of these were startup at some day in the Valley. So the risk taking capacity of the enterprises or the customers, early adopter customers is also high. So that's where it…”
Nikhil Gupta Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 45:36 The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Opinion
Sankar: India lacks the Bay Area's generational legacy of enterprise learning
“I think the challenge that India has is that India doesn't have the ecosystem that the Bay Area has, right? In the Bay Area, you had Adobe that passed to Google, who passed to Facebook, who passed to, you know, like, there's just this, like, legacy of learning…”
Prukalpa Sankar Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 1:07:53 Why Startups Fails Even After Finding PMF | Prukalpa Sankar, Atlan
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