Silicon Valley

“I started engineering capital in 2015 because I noticed that even here in Silicon Valley, most of venture capital is actually focused on market insights or consumer insights. We had drifted away from our original roots, which of course was Silicon Valley.”

“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?”

“Bangalore has 2.3 million software people and technology people, largest in the world, more than Silicon Valley.”

“And all the network effects that Silicon Valley has been seeing for 30 plus years or 40 plus years. The network effects I think are beginning to happen here and yeah, a hundred percent agree.”

“We're seeing people, you know who've been successful wanting to move back here and becoming angel investors, becoming advisors here. And I think that trend is only going to strengthen in the decade ahead.”

“The bit where Silicon Valley starts to have a pretty overwhelming advantage is if you're going from a thousand to 10,000. There are just not that many people outside Silicon Valley who have run thousand person engineering teams. But there are actually lots of …”

“We don't have networks in Silicon Valley, for example. We're not even trying to get them. It's not our strength. It probably will not become our strength also because we're not trying.”

“Maybe in a decade, maybe in two, I think Bangalore is an interesting ecosystem. I think in a decade or two, I think Bangalore, you know, has a shot at being there.”

“We are losing the best people because they don't want to be having to deal with regulations and cumbersome, you know, obstacles to business.”

“After the Biden administration for some reason, I think the Silicon Valley as a whole started shifting to the right in terms of values, conservative values of saying less regulation, less big government, and more freedom for the tech sector to do what it needs…”

“Design is such a thing. It's very hard to offshore because it's so cultural. Just imagine if, you know, someone has not experienced Disney, and they have not experienced how healthcare system works, or they have never bought an automobile insurance in their li…”

“It's what's made Silicon Valley so successful, right? You have investors, you have universities, you have an environment where people want to come and live. That same thing I would say happened in India over the last 25 years.”

“What used to be a trickle of a few Indian origin people coming in this, you know, seventies and eighties and nineties now is, has become a, you know, major flood, and it's in both directions.”

“By mid seventies, 75, 76, Both universities and industry were starting to see, you know, that Indians are pretty good in what they do. But again, a new Brand start to emerge. You know, these guys from India, you know, they have this mathematical gene, you know…”

“When I talked to my boss about, you know, moving into management, he was pretty clear. He said, you know, we, I'm not, we're not sure that you would be good in, you know, that you're very good at what you're doing. We're paying you good salary, but we're not s…”

“Being in Silicon Valley in the middle of what is effectively Florence during the Renaissance, Where we are creating some of the craziest things that human beings have ever, ever created. To be alive at this time, to be a part of that creative explosion is such…”

“Observability you need it when you have something in production, your agent is in production, and enterprises, like the large enterprises where the agents are in production more than, you know, like the, if you look at the Silicon Valley companies, they all ar…”

“Silicon Valley overestimates how fast that future will arrive.”

“I don't think there will ever be a time that the place will make you feel big. Because there's so many amazing things happening in Silicon Valley and Bay Area that no matter what you end up doing, right, you will always feel small, which is, Part of, which is …”

“Sure, Silicon Valley is still ahead, you could argue, but if in the world of SaaS, Silicon Valley was five years, 10 years ahead, I mean, it's probably three to six months ahead.”

“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…”