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Jain: High probability customer service AI startup Sierra gets killed
“There's a very high chance Sierra will get killed.”
Kumar: India's Real GDP Growth Is 1.5% to 2%, Not 7%
“So, 55% of the production from the organized sector may be rising at seven percent. That gives you 3.75% rate of growth. But the 45%, which is from the unorganized sector that is declining at five percent, that gives you -2.25. So your real rate of growth is n…”
Kumar: India's actual post-demonetization GDP growth is only 1.5% to 2%
“So our rate of growth is not six, seven percent as the government would like us to believe, but since demonetization, the average may be two percent or one and a half percent or something thereabouts, huh?”
Sikri: Israel's objective is to clear Gaza and seize territory
“They just want to clean up Gaza and take the territory.”
China is incapable of indigenous tech innovation and relies on IP theft
“Because why these guys are incapable of creating new technologies, Chinese. They have to keep stealing forever from China, from America.”
Garg: Donald Trump will win the Nobel Peace Prize by 2026
“And I think I'm, I have this now conviction, That he'll get the peace prize either in 2025 or 26.”
Garg: Accelerating brain drain by 5x to 10x would make India prosperous
“If you can increase the speed of this brain drain by five to 10 times Right. Believe me, India would be a prosperous country.”
Post-decline Kolkata has failed to produce figures like Tagore or Bose
“It is also the case that Kolkata has never produced again, somebody of the caliber of Satyajit Ray, or Ravidnath Tagore, or Swami Vivekanand, or Netaji Subhash Bose, or Sri Aurobindo, or Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, or any number of other names I can give yo…”
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…”
Pai: Narendra Modi did more for India's poor than any prior PM
“Prime Minister Modi has done more for the poor of this country than any prime minister in India's history.”
Pai: India's central government is clean, but state corruption is extraordinary
“In center, there's no corruption, but today, all states have become more corrupt. The level of corruption in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra is extraordinary.”
Vaibhav Sisinty Defends 18-Hour Workdays as Necessary to Outperform Competitors
“I mean, Shantanu's post went viral, sadly, the 18 hours. But I mean, if you ask me, there's nothing wrong with what he said. I've been working 16, 18 hours all my life. And that became part of my life as well. If you want to do more than others, you have to pu…”
Sanyal argues current US politics reflects a poverty of national aspiration
“Then at some point in time, their aspiration shrank to which gender they wanted to have. And so I can assure you that the politics you are now seeing in in America is a direct reflection of the poverty of their aspirations.”