Saravana Kumar, founder of Kovai.co, discusses the infrastructure and talent evolution in India over the past two decades.
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Kumar: Savings Potential for Top Talent Is Higher in India Than West
“The salaries are on par, really, you know, like, the top you go, like, in fact, your, you, your saving potential will be much, much higher in India than in the West, because in the West it is kind of saturated.”
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Kumar: ₹1 Crore Tech Leadership Salaries Are Now Normal in India
“And in India, it's one crore become normal, right? Like even a bid manager and at leadership level, it became normal.”
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Kumar: ChatGPT will cut off organic inbound search traffic to software websites
“The searches may still be there because people need answers for their questions, but the searches coming the, to your property, you know, that will cut off.”
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Kumar: Most Indian software product founders started at IT services firms
“So all the, today's, all the product founders, if you look at it, if you go all the way back, they would have worked in one of those companies at some point.”
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Kumar: India Offers Better Quality of Life Than West for the Affluent
“If you have money, India is the best place to live. You get, you know, five mates and driver and everything is taken care of. In the West, you can't do that. You know, like even when you're earning that kind of money, you still need to vacuum your house and, y…”
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Kumar: India will build Salesforce-scale tech giants in 10-20 years
“I think maybe in the next two, 20 years, we will see something like the next wave. Like, you know, now we are building products. It's all about now. How do you build a large scale products like Salesforce or Microsoft? It will happen. Eventually it will happen…”