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Why Startups Fails Even After Finding PMF | Prukalpa Sankar, Atlan
- ▶ 53:12 Prukalpa Sankar Because one thing that was really unique about our journey was Atlan was not born like a typical Silicon Valley company. 3 times in the scene
The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode
- ▶ 7:04 Nikhil Gupta So, I came to the valley thinking, hey,
- ▶ 15:12 Nikhil Gupta I, I, one fine day on my anniversary, I went back to my wife, I'm like, company had filed for S-one, the company I was working for, first time I was going to make money, and I decided to quit, and so that has been my journey, and I did…
- ▶ 41:31 Nikhil Gupta Back in 2000, uh, one of the first, uh, startup in Silicon Valley I joined was to make money, quick money. 8 times in the scene
Slow Teams Lose PMF in 90 Days | Krishna M, Elevation Capital
- ▶ 0:18 Krishna Mehra Given how fearless now founders are, they'll show up in the valley the moment they have an idea.
- ▶ 15:54 Krishna Mehra Uh, 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.
- ▶ 35:56 Krishna Mehra And then given how fearless our founders are, they'll show up in the valley the moment they have a right idea to come and monetize.
ChatGPT Killed My $50M ARR Business Overnight | Swapnil Jain Observe Al
The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
- ▶ 38:15 Mahesh Ram But the one thing we forget in Silicon Valley 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:13 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you then also think that, uh, the entire re-imagination of software category is overstated because Silicon Valley has a narrative that, um, the, the software has to become headless now because the agents who started interacting with… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:05 Mahesh Ram Um, we also have created a CXO collective with the top CXOs in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
The #1 Mistake Killing B2B Startups | Arun Penmetsa, Storm Ventures
- ▶ 1:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Yeah, so Storm is a legendary name in venture capital in Silicon Valley, right?
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 7:03 Mehul Nariyawala And this was also around the time, uh, I don't know if you had visited back then, but if you came in in 2017, you would probably find 200 self-driving car startups in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 31:58 Mehul Nariyawala Uh, I think being in Silicon Valley gives you an opportunity. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:00 Navneet Dalal What it happens is that in the Valley is like, you know, people bought the product, they used the product, and slowly and slowly it started taking off. 2 times in the scene
How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Run Olympics and Super Bowl | The Untold Amagi Story
- ▶ 1:01:54 Baskar Subramanian I really find very exciting because of the, uh, again, I travel a lot and I'm seeing other parts of the globe and also the excitement, the passion, and more importantly, the brashness of the confidence that Indian entrepreneurs have today,…
Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
- ▶ 4:34 Jonathan Siddharth We have the world's largest, uh, software engineering talent platform, uh, Silicon Valley caliber software engineers from all over the planet.
- ▶ 24:59 Jonathan Siddharth For example, uh, if you're asking an AI a question like, um, uh, what's the difference between AI investing in Silicon Valley versus AI investing in, uh, uh, India.
Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath
- ▶ 1:23:33 Shashank Saxena I didn't work in Silicon Valley.
India's Answer To China's Control On Global Supply Chain | Bhaktha, Chara Tech
- ▶ 41:41 Bhaktha Keshavachar That is, I was always questioning why Silicon Valley is so prominent, successful, and all of that.
How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
- ▶ 37:22 Poojan Kumar In the form of advisors, and good news, at least in Silicon Valley, for people in Silicon Valley, I think there is so much out here, and so much, you know, access to people and, and, and founders who have done it before, and, and, and… 3 times in the scene
Why "SaaS Apocalypse" is the Best Filter for Top 1% of Founders | Vignesh Ravikumar, Sierra Ventures
- ▶ 23:57 Vignesh Ravikumar So when, when we'd done the deal in 2015, HR tech was not a popular thing to do in Silicon Valley at the time, but you know, at the things were kind of starting to turn around, the labor markets were getting better.
Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
- ▶ 48:24 Manish Jindal And, and then now we are a more, we are, we are end-to-end solution where we do both evals and observability, and, but observability you need it when you have something in production, your agent is in production, and enterprises, like the…
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 12:44 Ashmeet Sidana There are a hundred different ways of building companies in Silicon Valley, and you have to understand how that particular company is going to execute and build their businesses.
- ▶ 27:33 Ashmeet Sidana Yeah, I mean, broadly speaking, Silicon Valley is a unique place, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:19 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And I have observed the Silicon Valley is just obsessed about product market fit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:37 Ashmeet Sidana They lost their lead to Silicon Valley, and Silicon Valley is now making some mistakes, but it's still surviving.
Where SMALL models will Win | Sudarshan kamath, Smallest ai
- ▶ 15:58 Sudarshan Kamath Um, the reason Silicon Valley is big is because, um, all over the world, people use services from here and we wanted access to global capital.
Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
- ▶ 1:42 Umesh Padval So I'll start off with seeing, I've seen so many revolutions happening in the Silicon Valley over the last 40 years from semiconductors to PC to networking to social media to search to, um, genetic type of companies in the healthcare area.
- ▶ 34:23 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You came to Silicon Valley in the eighties. 3 times in the scene
What Mistake Founders Make With A-Players | Matt MacInnis | COO Rippling
- ▶ 1:03:06 Matt MacInnis And so for me, being in Silicon Valley in the middle of what is effectively Florence during the Renaissance,
- ▶ 1:13:29 Matt MacInnis That there is a narrative in Silicon Valley that the glory comes to those who persist. 2 times in the scene
How Buyers Discover Startups, From a 10-Year Founder Journey to an EXIT | Ankur & Vishwa, Zenduty
- ▶ 46:27 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Would it build from India, Valley, or any other? 4 times in the scene
Wall Street Rejected This CEO & Then He Did a $200M IPO | Kanwal Rekhi
- ▶ 5:22 Kanwal Rekhi We brought about a dozen people, and we had a seminar held in Bombay and Delhi, and it was titled Entrepreneurship and Wealth Direction, Citizen Valley Style. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:53 Kanwal Rekhi Yeah, we should talk sometime, but, but this Silicon Valley Quad is a way for people, you know, to participate in this Silicon Valley phenomenon of, at least as investing is very risky.
Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- ▶ 41:06 Ashish Toshniwal So all these fortune, 500 clients, they were feeling the pressure by one of the big tech or some startup in the Valley, who's like heavily funded, that they're going after them, whether you're in healthcare, retail, doesn't matter. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:47 unnamed speaker One of the bets a lot of us are making, a lot of them from Silicon Valley, some funds from New York are making, is you're saying, I will now take over these legacy services businesses, and I'll own the business, I'll run it also. 4 times in the scene
For the CEOs of 2026, From One of India's Top Leaders | Roopa Kudva, Ex-CEO Crisil
- ▶ 1:01:13 Roopa Kudva I met it, ah, founded by this amazing woman called Radha Basu, spent her entire life in the Silicon Valley, care tech companies, came back to India, to Kolkata, and has started this organization with people from underprivileged… 3 times in the scene
From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC
- ▶ 2:58 Aditya Agarwal These are the parts that kind of the world in Silicon Valley kind of give me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:16 Prateek Mehta You know, when people are exploring together, and I think there's a bit of mythology from the Valley as well, that as the community started coming together, people who were, this is not a learning community only.
How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- ▶ 4:36 Bhaskar Ghosh So, from a very Silicon Valley tech-centric point of view, the, the why now question 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:06 Bhaskar Ghosh If you bring this Silicon Valley and Bangalore view of SaaS, you bring in, you write good software, you start a seed company, you start selling software to, say, these dentist offices as an example, or these, say, these invoice processing… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:03 unnamed speaker The reason being, these are the kind of cadre of engineers and leaders who are thinking about much deeper systems problems, AI problems, data problems, and I feel that's where a lot of the heart of Silicon Valley lies here. 2 times in the scene
What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- ▶ 0:00 Somesh Dash The people that really put the silicon in Silicon Valley were immigrants.
- ▶ 2:03 Somesh Dash All the fun Silicon Valley stuff.
- ▶ 2:19 Somesh Dash And so in Palo Alto itself, even when my parents emigrated in the late seventies, in these areas, you would see older orchard farms, you know, the Silicon and Silicon Valley only came in the 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:00 Somesh Dash Well, one thing that's kind of interesting if you look at, so historically the organizational structure of Silicon Valley has been you build teams, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:40 Somesh Dash Everybody's always putting up, like, this was a huge success, that was a huge success, but ultimately, you know, as a person, if, like, you accomplish what you set out to do, and failure is celebrated in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:41 Somesh Dash 2002 to 2005 was dead time in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:08:43 unnamed speaker I think what's cool now is that a founder who was born in Chennai can come to Silicon Valley and build something to compete with the biggest of the bigs, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:06 Somesh Dash We had done consumer investing in Silicon Valley.
How Startup’s Should Find REAL Customer Pain w/ 4x Founder Shreesha Ramdas (Lumber)
- ▶ 17:45 Shreesha Ramdas I look around the valley. 2 times in the scene
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? 2 times in the scene
Learn from Silicon Valley’s Best Companies (Hubspot, Google & Salesforce) w/Avanish Sahai
- ▶ 0:14 Avanish Sahai It's what's made Silicon Valley so successful. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:56 Avanish Sahai Uh, and I've been very lucky and I've been in the Silicon Valley for about 37, 38 years and have seen it evolve from something that was not as well known maybe.
- ▶ 10:22 Avanish Sahai It's what's made Silicon Valley so successful, right?
- ▶ 15:43 Avanish Sahai Look, I, I think there's already been, um, again, I've been in Silicon Valley 37 years, and in that time, uh, what used to be a trickle of a few Indian origin people coming in this, you know, seventies and eighties and nineties, um, now…
- ▶ 21:19 Avanish Sahai One, uh, and again, this may sound very simple, but I think it is, it is how Silicon Valley thinks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:41 Avanish Sahai Look, there is a, I think again, um, there's a saying in Silicon Valley that became a book by Andy Grove, who was the, one of the leaders of Intel in its
- ▶ 51:25 Avanish Sahai So that ability to, you know, um, be curious, question things, but at the end of the day, and again, I speak this in the heart of Silicon Valley as a technologist, AI, AI, AI is all we talk about.
Why Finding Your ‘Rapido Bet’ and Surviving Your ‘Meesho Miss is the Best Job | Pratik & Brij
- ▶ 1:05:12 Pratik Poddar Silicon Valley had, like a lot of people left Silicon Valley last four, five years, uh, and, and went to the other parts of the world, other parts of the world as well. 5 times in the scene
6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria
- ▶ 1:46 Viral Bajaria Like now you, now you can say I shoot in the, I have shot in like the best place in the world, like Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 54:45 Viral Bajaria So, um, this is where I feel sometimes Silicon Valley has an unfair advantage, because the best VCs actually have a way to bring these companies in, and you can do all these things. 2 times in the scene
How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
- ▶ 0:44 Ashish Toshniwal Our mission became we export Silicon Valley to the world, where Silicon Valley is not a zip code, but it's a mindset. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:31 Ashish Toshniwal So what happened was we got really famous on few Facebook groups and we were called the app guys in the valley. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:27 Ashish Toshniwal So all these fortune, 500 clients, they were feeling the pressure by one of the big tech or some startup in the Valley. 4 times in the scene
Why YOU Should Know About Rajeev Motwani, a Genius Indian-American Professor
- ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker Here is one of the smartest people that has ever existed in Silicon Valley. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:42 Asha Jadeja Motwani The Silicon Valley diaspora is different, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:03 Asha Jadeja Motwani One important thing that I want to bring to your attention is that a lot of the Silicon Valley is shifting rightward. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:08 Asha Jadeja Motwani These are not major, you know, uh, sort of even cost outlays, but having that confidence of showing up at, uh, in Silicon Valley from India, when you've never been here before, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:33 Asha Jadeja Motwani Uh, a sort of a process by which people would apply for the Rajiv Circle Fellowship for people to come to the US, uh, for the Silicon Valley plunge.
- ▶ 26:49 Asha Jadeja Motwani They come to the valley.
GPT-5 is NOT Your Competitor It's GPT-7 |Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital | Databricks,Turing, Cohesity
8 Years Without Funding to $100M Raise & Now A Category Leader | Shivku Ganesan ,Exotel
- ▶ 38:38 Shivakumar Ganesan So now, uh, every once in a while, I will now go to the US, spend a couple of weeks in the valley.
From $4.5M for 49% to $700M In The Bank at IPO: Sanjeev & Yashish On 17 Years Of Policybazaar
- ▶ 33:33 Sanjeev Bikhchandani We don't have networks in Silicon Valley, for example.
How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me To Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder - Featurely
- ▶ 15:00 Vasanth Namasivayam Um, it's a mantra which is very common in the Valley, but from my experience, it's not always put in practice. 2 times in the scene
WHAT Will Decide The Next Superpower? | Raja Manickam | iVP Semiconductor
- ▶ 1:05:08 Raja Manickam In the U S why they're successful, whether it's Silicon Valley or Seattle, right?
15 Years Of Investing Lessons In 75 Minutes With Prime Ventures and Stellaris Partners | Neon Show
- ▶ 32:46 unnamed speaker Valley startup.
Why Traditional Playbooks Are Failing & What Really Works In SAAS? | WizCommerce, Pienomial & Merlin
- ▶ 2:21 unnamed speaker So I think all of us are building in, uh, kind of industries which get zero love from Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 15:23 unnamed speaker The traditional thought process in software, at least that the, that comes from the U S or the Valley is like make one thing, make it the best and just go for it. 2 times in the scene
What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- ▶ 34:38 unnamed speaker I mean, generally the consensus in the world has come today, definitely in the valley is that everybody needs to do pre-seed.
- ▶ 47:37 Kushal Bhagia That cycle keeps repeating in the Valley as well by sees the one where I feel the founders have comfortably retired and the brand still continues to kill it as the one exception in the world where the, I feel a brand has gone way beyond…
How To Hire, Train & Retain Talent To Build A Great Company | Vijay Rayapati | Khadim Batti
- ▶ 25:21 Khadim Batti I think of the whole valley thing, as soon as that money was stopped, 2 times in the scene
Can Neysa be India's AI Cloud alternative to AWS, Azure & Google Cloud? | Sharad Sanghi
- ▶ 24:59 Sharad Sanghi Uh, but it's only a matter of time in the Valley.
How Accel Deploys $650M in India & Manages $5B in Growth + Late Stage | Prayank Swaroop
- ▶ 33:34 Prayank Swaroop U S when I go to the U S ecosystem Valley ecosystem, there's so much of learning, so much of knowledge sharing happening.
Lightspeed’s $500M Bet On India With 1/3rd In AI Companies | Dev Khare | Neon Show
- ▶ 2:05 Dev Khare Yeah, I mean, um, for what it's worth, I was, uh, I've been doing this India to abroad thing for many years, even since childhood, sort of, my dad was in the Indian Foreign Service, so we kept traveling other countries, back to Delhi, back…
- ▶ 20:55 Dev Khare By that, I mean, there's a model, there's a Silicon Valley model where you raise 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:01 Dev Khare Um, that is not a Silicon Valley model in a, in a core sense.
10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
- ▶ 1:00:09 Avnish Bajaj If you were to go to the valley, I don't know when you last visit. 2 times in the scene
Digi Yatra, AQI, UDAN Scheme, And India's Net Zero Goals | Jayant Sinha | The Neon Show Podcast
- ▶ 32:09 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Connects the Silicon Valley of India to Silicon Valley of the world.
Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- ▶ 3:54 Raja Manickam Uh, and then I went to the, uh, West Coast in Silicon Valley. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:47 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And that's why Silicon Valley is called Silicon Valley because they're the semiconductors.
How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
- ▶ 1:00:14 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And do you see, you know, uh, uh, like you have almost lived Silicon Valley on 20, 25 years of your life. 3 times in the scene
How Chess.com Founder Built A $150 Million ARR Empire With Zero VC Funding | Erik Allebest | Neon
- ▶ 2:53 Erik Allebest Um, you know, in some ways, uh, you know, in Southern California, so not, not Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 14:29 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, maybe doing a lot of stuff in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:23 Erik Allebest Um, that said, Silicon Valley is alluring. 2 times in the scene
Why Top Global VCs Are Eyeing India | Boris Wertz | Version One Ventures | The Neon Show
- ▶ 29:09 Boris Wertz If you're based in the Valley, right?
Former SOFTBANK CFO: My Honest Experience Working With Masayoshi Son | Alok Sama | The Neon Show
- ▶ 10:17 Alok Sama That's part of, that's part of why I, um, people often ask me that, look, you're cynical or you seem cynical about Silicon Valley and Wall Street, but you seem to put Masa Son on a pedestal.
- ▶ 46:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, for example, you know, uh, the different cultures, you know, the Japanese culture that you would define the Silicon Valley culture.
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