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Western agencies funded India's first ultrasound imports to curb population growth
“They basically, these whole bunch of these Rockefeller, Ford, even some UN agencies were involved in this, and they basically imported with their funding ultrasound machines. And they basically said that, look, this is great. Why don't you allow parents to act…”
Kumar: Most milk in India exceeds regulatory aflatoxin limits
“There is a food safety standards, ok, guideline on what is the limit of aflatoxin. Most of the milk in the country is above, ok, that limit.”
Bajaj: India has never built SaaS companies reaching million-dollar ACVs
“They don't want to operate in this five, 10, 20,050 thousand ACV. They have aspirations to do hundreds of thousands or millions in ACV. India has never done that.”
India's socialist policies collapsed GDP per capita from $2,730 to $300
“Because of the socialist policies that we pursued from then on till 1991, when we liberalized and there is an important lesson actually, that's why I'm explaining this. We reduced our GDP per capita from 2730 to 300 dollars.”
Kumar: Human lactase enzyme production can be easily revived
“By design, we have a lactase enzyme. Ok, it can be revived. Ok, it can be easily revived.”
Sharma: Tejas Networks will replace Huawei globally within a year
“What if I tell you that a year from now, it'll be Tejas. And if it is Tejas, then you have to take me out for lunch. And if it is not Tejas, I'll take all of you out for lunch, right? As having lost the bed.”
Quick commerce will cap out at 25 percent of total grocery purchasing
“So these are the two strong use cases, and in my view, this will contribute to about 20 to 25% of the grocery buy, and that's it. Rest of it will continue to be planned and continue to be the way it's working”
Menon claims BigBasket will be the only profitable quick-commerce grocery player
“The only one that's going to build a profitable model today is of us because it's not for us. It's an extension of our business, right? I've got the same DC, same supplier, same everything. My supply chain is just getting more and more loaded, which helps me g…”