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“And we've had roughly 15, 20 companies come out of it, which we are very, very excited to be partnering with.”

“In the last one year, we've been very, very, it's been amazing to see, like we've had roughly about 70 community members. 70 to 80 community members join us in SPC Bangalore.”

“The selection rate for the community is less than one percent, right? So by way of number of applications that come in and the number of people who actually get an access to the community, right?”

“Not everybody should start a company, right? And I think that our environment, when somebody comes in to join the community is that you should start a company. If you're willing to go through 20 years of pain, Right. But sometimes honestly, it's like better to…”

“So, you know, in the early days, someone like you know, like a Vitalik Buterin who was just building the ether network, who obviously became Ethereum. Someone like a Jennifer Doudna who was doing groundbreaking work on CRISPR. They would come to a small kind o…”

“And then we also have had probably like four foundation model companies come out of like essentially SBC four or five actually kind of doing everything from general purpose kind of like open source models to more specific models around essentially everything f…”

“I strongly disagree with the narrative that a bunch of people have that India can't do AI. I think that's ridiculous. I think we have seen enough examples from some of our members, some of the companies that they are starting. That India actually has absolutel…”

“And typically what we do is we commit a million dollars to a team at the pre-seed stage. So, 400 K at the pre-seed stage and at least 600 K at the seed.”

“When we invest, we don't, we're not talking about thesis and right. This market is going to go this way. We're talking about access of curiosity, which is something that we publish every six months. We talk about what are the broad areas where we believe thing…”

“For us, you learn so you can build. So every week you have to build something with velocity, with speed to demo to everyone.”