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$1Billion CRM From India Competing With Salesforce | Nilesh Patel, LeadSquared
- ▶ 23:53 Nilesh Patel I mean, CRM is a broad category, but we should not just sort of bucket it into, uh, you know, what, uh, Salesforce does or EliteSquare does or, or Microsoft does, right?
- ▶ 25:01 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Microsoft Azure is a billion and I think GCP is somewhere close to a billion.
#1 Reason Why Most Startups Fail - "They Don't Have A Business Model"
- ▶ 2:36 Ganesh Krishnan Then suddenly, Microsoft came with Internet Explorer. 2 times in the scene
Lightspeed’s $500M Bet On India With 1/3rd In AI Companies | Dev Khare | Neon Show
10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
- ▶ 55:08 Avnish Bajaj You know, it is effectively open AI plus, uh, uh, Nvidia, uh, plus your, uh, Microsoft or AWS all in one, right?
$200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- ▶ 1:02:37 Sharad Sharma It would have been controlled by Microsoft. 5 times in the scene
2X SaaS Founder: How To Sell Global Tech Products From India | Sharath Narayana | Neon Show
- ▶ 1:04:59 Sharath Narayana Or it could be for Zoom or Teams, right?
Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- ▶ 0:21 Raja Manickam So Microsoft is trying to build their own chip. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, but since 95, when Microsoft became big, then since 95 till let's say 2023, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:58 Raja Manickam Uh, a lot of my batch mates ended up in Microsoft, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:01 Raja Manickam So you had these algorithms, which did that, uh, just like, you know, if you look at the Microsoft example, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:17 Raja Manickam Microsoft Office or something like that.
How Chess.com Founder Built A $150 Million ARR Empire With Zero VC Funding | Erik Allebest | Neon
- ▶ 1:05:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like you, you daily hear about these days, like Microsoft, Google firing 500 people.
BigBasket Co-founder on 10 Min Delivery, TATA Acquisition, Wealth Creation & More | Neon Show
- ▶ 41:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, when will India see Microsoft, Google, Amazon, like outcomes built out of India, because the U S if you see the U S GDP, right? 5 times in the scene
Employment Researcher - “India Needs 20 Million Jobs Yearly For Demographic Advantage!” Sridhar K
- ▶ 35:11 Siddhartha Ahluwalia He not only brought ISB to Hyderabad, he only brought Microsoft to Hyderabad, right? 2 times in the scene
Indian SaaS, AI Wave, IPO & Best Country For Co. Registration | 2024 Insights With SaaS Founder
- ▶ 30:00 Shashank Bijapur When I, when you go in for RFP, they're looking at all the check marks that are there in that Excel sheet, and you need to make sure that each of those features exist.
- ▶ 34:37 Pallav Nadhani Now DevTools may, I haven't seen too much consolidation happening in DevTools because now there are pockets between let's say Microsoft's world, uh, other companies, JetBrains and the infralayers.
- ▶ 1:08:10 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I think one of the best in its category, but when Microsoft entered that category with teams, it replaced Slack like anything. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:10 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I think one of the best in its category, but when Microsoft entered that category with teams, it replaced Slack like anything. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:39 Pallav Nadhani SharePoint power BI for slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:39 Pallav Nadhani SharePoint power BI for slack. 2 times in the scene
$10 Trillion Goal, Reverse Brain Drain & IPO Market I Nansi & Siddhartha On India’s Bright Future
- ▶ 10:46 Siddhartha (Siddharth) Uh, we always talk about, uh, now the NVIDIA, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta.
Entrepreneur First’s Founder On Indian Talent, AI Startups, Selling SaaS Globally And Silicon Valley
- ▶ 7:57 Matt Clifford You just use AWS, or Google, or Azure, or whatever, and you know, like, they will pay you to do that, at least to begin with.
- ▶ 9:02 Matt Clifford What would the, we just had this idea that we couldn't shake, which was what would the world look like if all these people were surrounded by all these smart, ambitious, competitive people, instead of making slides, they were learning all…
Flipkart’s Success Secrets, VC Power Law, And IPO Market : RTP Global Partner, Nishit Garg
- ▶ 31:52 Nishit Garg Obviously, there are companies, ah, for tech companies, there are players in US, there are the biggies, the Googles, and Microsofts, and Oracle, you know, some of these guys, and they will always continue to play this game.
These 90 Minutes Will Teach You Everything About SaaS Business | SaaSBOOMi Co-Founder | Neon Show
- ▶ 15:32 Manav Garg Let me create a small database in access first. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:55 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Let's say AWS, GCP, Azure.
2024 VC Updates, IPO Trends, And Fundraising Advice with Churchill’s Raja Doddala I Neon Show
- ▶ 47:04 Raja Doddala Yeah, the most common one, the most, one of my pet peeves is make it really hard to find your top line performance, um, where we have to, you know, put it in Excel and calculate it.
Wealth Creation For Employees Explained By Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor) I The Neon Show
- ▶ 29:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, I believe after Apple and Microsoft, uh, uh, so, so you don't know, right?
B2B SAAS Investors Discuss European And Indian Startup Ecosystems | ROI Ventures | Neon Show
- ▶ 43:37 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like if you, if you recall, right, Microsoft is one of the, the largest companies, which is purely B to B essentially, and they never raised any money.
IAS Turned RBI Governor: Duvvuri Subbarao On CM Chandrababu Naidu, IAS Eligibility Criteria & More
- ▶ 41:35 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, how Hyderabad was able to attract the headquarters of some of the biggest organizations globally in India, like Microsoft came.
G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant On UPSC, Working With PM Modi, Incredible India & Amrit Kaal I Neon Show
- ▶ 57:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Apple, Microsoft, Google, uh, their valuations on the public markets are almost equal to the GDPs of India.
Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice
- ▶ 48:18 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Will India produce anything like Apple, Microsoft, or OpenAI even?
- ▶ 1:04:22 Varun Mayya Even OpenAI had to take Microsoft self. 3 times in the scene
Darkest Indian SCAMS - Jamtara, Aadhaar Data, And Dark Web Secrets I Rahul Sasi I The Neon Show
- ▶ 52:20 Rahul Sasi But now Microsoft and ChatGPT showed the world that there's so much more you can do.
MUST WATCH for Indians Abroad - Remote Work, House Help & More | Kovai.co Founder | Neon Show
- ▶ 7:07 Saravana Kumar Yeah, I think, uh, and small stint at Microsoft, so four companies in 10 years.
- ▶ 17:43 Saravana Kumar Like, uh, if you go to top colleges, like, uh, the tier one will be Amazons and Microsoft paying like, you know, 25 lakhs for the intern and, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:44 Saravana Kumar I was working with Microsoft Germany within six months as also a part of a project and, and it was collaboration with Microsoft Germany and we are doing something. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:28 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And now hopefully we'll see many more startups coming from Coimbatore because you have set an example, but India hasn't produced anything of the scale of Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:11 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You wrote a blog, and whenever customers either found you because there was not too much, ah, you know, you found that the, the gap in Microsoft Serverless. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:21 Saravana Kumar BizTalk Serverless. 4 times in the scene
Early Investor of Ola, Urban Company & Mamaearth Shares Startup Success Secrets | Neon Show
- ▶ 10:02 Rohit Bansal Uh, 2006 to seven, both of us respectively worked, he at Microsoft, I at Capital One, which is the US card company, and then in 2007 is when we quit and started our business.
PM Modi’s Economic Advisor On Kolkata’s Decline, Amrit Kaal & $10 Trillion Economy I Sanjeev Sanyal
- ▶ 57:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, right?
ISB and Ashoka University Founder, Pramath Raj Sinha on The Neon Show
UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show
- ▶ 10:13 Sharad Sharma Uh, so for example, you know, Microsoft, of course, the profits are through the roof, but the low profit year for them was 2013.
The India Opportunity, Youth’s BIGGEST Problem & Future of Startups | India Quotient VC on Neon Show
- ▶ 32:24 Anand Lunia Microsoft can't really say, oh, I'll reduce my cost by 10 X to be affordable to Indian.
- ▶ 56:09 Anand Lunia I mean, just imagine Microsoft word is so complex. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:14 Anand Lunia I can bet you that 80% of the country or world cannot use even the basic features of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, right?
- ▶ 56:14 Anand Lunia I can bet you that 80% of the country or world cannot use even the basic features of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, right?
- ▶ 1:14:48 Anand Lunia So what we have created unicorns, but we haven't created institutions like, like Microsoft.
HOW To Gain 25,000 Subscribers in JUST 90 Days! | Our UNTOLD Rebranding Story on The Neon Show
- ▶ 29:19 Vidit Agarwal I should be able to give you good design in word document.
FUTURE of Indian Jobs, India Subscription Model & Life Lessons | Kuku FM Founder on The Neon Show
- ▶ 14:47 Lal Chand Bisu You have to go to Microsoft, Google, Facebook, but because of these, like, all biographies, I want to solve some problems.
Watch This BEFORE Renting Out Your Property In India! | SEBI Manager Deepak Shenoy on The Neon Show
- ▶ 51:33 Deepak Shenoy Ten billion dollars is what Microsoft trades in three hours.
Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
- ▶ 29:37 Vijay Rayapati And, ah, they used to pay a lot more than Google, Microsoft,
- ▶ 42:17 Vijay Rayapati Ah, most went and, you know, took the regular jobs, like you go to Google or Amazon, Microsoft, one of these places.
- ▶ 51:59 Vijay Rayapati Uh, you know, the reason why I didn't apply to Amazon or Google, Microsoft was Trilogy was paying, like, way more. 2 times in the scene
Infosys Ex-CFO: Nehru Vs PM Modi, India’s Future, Corruption I Mohandas Pai on Neon Show
- ▶ 43:36 T. V. Mohandas Pai I want to answer a question which people always say, oh, why is there not a Microsoft in India? 2 times in the scene
From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
- ▶ 29:05 Aprameya Radhakrishna So when you say global tech, it's Google, Facebook, Twitter, you know, Microsoft, everybody else.
- ▶ 31:45 Aprameya Radhakrishna I mean, that ability is, is your ability to process a lot of information without putting it down in an Excel sheet.
Breaking Down India's B2B Digital Payment Ecosystem with Cashfree CEO Akash Sinha
- ▶ 1:42 Akash Sinha People have Outlook, Gmail, and another product like Zohando.
WeWork In India - The Untold Story with CEO Karan Virwani | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 6:05 Karan Virwani There I got exposed to us, you know, doing these large business parks for companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM, you know, really large multinational companies, and there's such a stark difference between the quality of real estate or the…
- ▶ 26:25 Karan Virwani I remember we did a deal, you know, for both Microsoft and Amazon in Galaxy, which was unheard of, you know, in the Flex space at that point in time, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:43 Karan Virwani And for Microsoft, it was like at that time, I think it was something working on three 60 or Microsoft three 60 or something like that, some innovation team basically.
Acquisition By Freshworks and Building SaaS in Chennai with Srikrishnan Ganesan, Founder, Rocketlane
- ▶ 13:15 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You saw a large market and an unsolved market because it was essentially getting solved on Excel sheets and Asana.
- ▶ 40:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today, Microsoft with its partnership with ChatGPT is seen as a leader, you know, in everything in generative AI.
Understanding the Trillion-Dollar lending market in India ft. Rangarajan Krishnan
- ▶ 26:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia But a Kirana store is not maintaining an Excel sheet. 2 times in the scene
Building CaratLane to a 17000 Crore company and selling it to TATA with Founder Mithun Sacheti
- ▶ 12:39 Mithun Sacheti Bing wasn't there.
Manish Mundra on Life-Changing Investing Habits and Pursuing Dreams in the most unconventional way
- ▶ 21:18 Manish Mundra So when we worked hard, the executive president of the company noticed me, and he observed me because I remember that incidents where PowerPoint was in the Lotus version.
The Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Fail! Ft. Manan Khurma, Founder - Cuemath | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 48:11 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, they don't take coding interviews.
The Reality of Web3 That Only Few know ft Santosh Panda, Co-Founder, Foundership
- ▶ 13:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, in college, and then after also college, Saurabh worked in Microsoft, Sastadeem worked in Oracle, and they used to develop projects at night, various Android apps.
Status-driven Indian Society, Learnings, & Building For Bharat- Lal Chand Bisu, CEO, Kuku FM
- ▶ 23:47 Lal Chand Bisu Like, yes, I want to go to Microsoft, Google, Facebook.
India's Favorite WhatsApp Solution Provider Ft. Karthik Jagannathan, Founder of Gallabox
- ▶ 24:27 Karthik Jagannathan There's no more you can just work with Excel sheets.
How to Build a Second Brain? THIS Will Change Your Life! | Ft. Tiago Forte | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 7:23 Tiago Forte Then it became digital and I would just use like Microsoft Word. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:08 Tiago Forte So, when you sit down with that one hour to get things done, you don't want to spend the first 20 minutes going and finding that email, and then that one google doc, and then that one word doc, and then that one, you know, pdf.
- ▶ 25:23 Tiago Forte Could it become a PowerPoint presentation?
How He Built India's #1 SaaS for Manufacturers? Ft. Divyaanshu Makkar, Co-Founder-Sourcewiz
- ▶ 39:56 Divyanshu Makkar Previously, when they don't have a digital system, nobody's maintaining Excel in India.
How Meena Ganesh Built Portea, India's Leading Home Health Care with 150000+ Home Visits Every Month
- ▶ 2:58 Meena Ganesh Um, I was with Microsoft at that time and, um, I had a lot of interactions with a number of software startups as Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
Scaling From 0 to 120Cr+ Revenue Playbook For SaaS-Entrepreneurs in India Ft. Yamini Bhat, CEO-Vymo
- ▶ 19:56 Yamini Bhat BFSIS such as nearly 40% of Microsoft's or Gartner's earnings in a way, right?
Building Product That Sells Itself Ft. Dheeraj Pandey, CEO-DevRev, Co-Founder-Nutanix
- ▶ 28:16 Dheeraj Pandey They put reps a little later than when Andy would have wanted because Azure was going and really winning the hearts and minds of Europe and places where, ah, you know, they don't have as many makers.
- ▶ 42:47 Dheeraj Pandey So when you acquire such companies, you know, I mean, right now, Microsoft with GitHub,
- ▶ 42:52 Dheeraj Pandey They're learning open source, and developers, and embracing developers of all kinds, not just Windows, but also Linux, and AWS, and you know, AIML developers who will never use Azure, but might end up using Google Cloud products, and so on.
- ▶ 42:52 Dheeraj Pandey They're learning open source, and developers, and embracing developers of all kinds, not just Windows, but also Linux, and AWS, and you know, AIML developers who will never use Azure, but might end up using Google Cloud products, and so on.
- ▶ 48:19 Dheeraj Pandey I take a left turn, come to California, take a right turn, go to Microsoft, and I ended up taking the turn towards a smaller startup rather than going to a larger company like Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
How He Earns 3Cr/Year At The Age of 20? Ft. Ishan Sharma, Co-Founder of MarkitUp
- ▶ 7:48 Ishan Sharma It was from Microsoft.
How Open Became The 100th Unicorn - The Story of Asia's First Neo Bank ft. Anish Achuthan
- ▶ 23:48 Anish Achuthan Today, you send invoices to these 10 people from a system like either an MS Word or a Zoho invoice, and your customers would pay to your bank account, but your bank account will only have reference numbers basically, like one, two, three.
- ▶ 25:17 Anish Achuthan If you are a large enterprise, obviously they used to give you that thing, but that to a complex process, you have to have download a software, have an Excel converted into a different file format, and it was very complex to do that. 2 times in the scene
Building a 1000 Crore+ Business | Journey of GeeksForGeeks ft Founder Sandeep Jain
- ▶ 13:04 Sandeep Jain So I appeared in many, uh, top companies, uh, like I appeared in Google, Microsoft and all the other companies.
- ▶ 19:07 Sandeep Jain This question was asked me to me in Microsoft interview, and they just used to send me raw code, which was working.
How did Bipin Preet Singh Build a 540 Crore Fintech Product(Mobikwik), with 120M users?
- ▶ 14:02 Bipin Preet Singh Or, you know, you, you want to build a replacement for Microsoft Word or a Microsoft Excel.
- ▶ 14:02 Bipin Preet Singh Or, you know, you, you want to build a replacement for Microsoft Word or a Microsoft Excel.
Leaving HUL to Building a D2C Food Brand ft. Shashank Mehta , Founder & CEO - The Whole Truth
- ▶ 16:39 Shashank Mehta So, uh, you can imagine the size of that Excel sheet.
Yadhu Gopalan On His Journey, Meeting His Co-Founder & Learnings From Amazon & Microsoft!
- ▶ 3:36 Yadhu Gopalan Um, as you said, we spent 25 years in the industry, like about 16 of those with Microsoft and six or seven of those with Amazon.
- ▶ 12:51 Yadhu Gopalan Um, as I said, I worked for Microsoft and, um, during Microsoft years, um, when I was in Windows Phone, um, Shiv Sundar was, um, um, kind of on the business development, um, part of the, as I was in the development area, he owned kind of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:56 Yadhu Gopalan Shiv and I, um, like after working multiple years at these larger companies, partnered with, um, um, uh, huge, um, billion dollar companies, um, when we were in Microsoft or Amazon or Samsung, gives us that kind of edge or knowledge that… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:55 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you know, you saw, as you said, like large part of your life between Microsoft and Amazon, what are you learning from them? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:54 Yadhu Gopalan But that, um, that is, so you could, you could, that's one experience, but you also get the experience of, like, I think Microsoft, um, was really great at, like, um, like from operating systems and building out, like, lots of different,…
- ▶ 23:54 Yadhu Gopalan But that, um, that is, so you could, you could, that's one experience, but you also get the experience of, like, I think Microsoft, um, was really great at, like, um, like from operating systems and building out, like, lots of different,…
- ▶ 23:54 Yadhu Gopalan But that, um, that is, so you could, you could, that's one experience, but you also get the experience of, like, I think Microsoft, um, was really great at, like, um, like from operating systems and building out, like, lots of different,…
HOW They're Competing With ADOBE! ft. Satej Sirur, Founder @Rocketiumapp
- ▶ 4:55 Satej Sirur Joined Microsoft straight out of college.