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Mehta: Electric scooters will decimate India's commuter motorcycle market within 10 years
“So my belief for the last several years has been electric scooters will decimate the
Commuter entry motorcycle market in India over the next 10 years.
What will be left as motorcycles is the premium and the high performance category, one 8200 cc and beyond, wh…”
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…”
Pitti: VC money dried up in travel because funded startups failed to deliver returns
“See, eventually one day for, I can speak for my industry, my travel industry, the money has dried up. The VC money has dried up just because none of the players have successfully delivered the value. To the VCs, to the PEs, to the banks.”
Infamous 'Wolf Gupta' ads were just 8 of 1,200 WhiteHat Jr creatives
“We are talking about, like, 1200 creatives on Facebook. Out of which six or eight creatives out of 1200, or maybe like, you know, creatives You know, Vish our social media creatives that somebody thinks is, it's not that there's a claim that this kid has made …”
Bajpai: India will become the world's largest market for unicorns
“I think every time, you know, I hear this, I'm like, dude, you know, it's going to take 10 more years than what people imagine. But the thing is, this will be the largest market in terms of unicorns in the world when that happens, right?”
Poddar: Online education will be perceived as superior to offline learning
“I would argue over time, people should think about a tech as even better than the offline education that they were getting. Because of because of democratization of content from the supply side, because you can get the best suppliers or best supply of content …”
Lunia: Consumer brand outcome sizes will equal major tech startup exits
“When we do a brand, we do believe that it might take longer, but the size of the outcome will be no less than the size of a social media or a hotshot tech company.”
Lunia: Indian small borrowers have better repayment rates than multinational corporates
“Their repayment rates are far better than multinational corporates today in India.”
Lunia: Indian small businesses will adopt self-service SaaS
“Contrary to perception and you know the common consensus between VCs today, we think that People will do self-service SaaS. So Indians have been written off. We believe that nobody will do self-service SaaS. We think these people will do self-service SaaS.”
Aneja: INSOFE data science programs rank ahead of Stanford and Columbia
“In India, they're number one by far in quality, and globally they're ranked ahead of Columbia, ahead of Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, et cetera, and they're just a private company delivering such high quality programs.”
Khan: Startups are now India's largest job-creating industry
“And certainly if you look at the last 12 years in 2008 is when the venture capital revolution started in India. This is the largest job creating industry in India. It's no longer IT services or banking or something like that. It's the startup industry, right?”
Sankar: Humans will always remain at the center of AI development
“One of our biggest realizations has been that humans will always be the center of AI. And how humans expand their creativity and their thinking through this is what is going to actually drive the next wave of this.”
Tandon: AI agents will make clean APIs obsolete by processing unstructured data
“Number two is I think the concept of agents where you don't really need A clean API per se. You can make do with unstructured data and take inputs and shoot out outputs that are processable, human readable, but also machine readable. And that to me is going to…”
Kompalli: 50% of consumers and 90% of enterprises use LLMs for purchasing
“So today already there are various reports, including Gartner, that says that 50% of consumers have moved to LLMs to make buying decisions. 90% of enterprises have moved to LLMs, especially in high research categories like education, travel, healthcare, softwa…”
Mehra: Anthropic and OpenAI will steamroll standalone developer tooling startups
“The parts which I think I would say we are less excited about. Is generally things around the SDLC right now. Because the challenges in SDLC, you're in the way of anthropic and open AI. So hard to underwrite anything on what direction they'll take. And honestl…”
Jain: AI will handle over 50% of customer service within 3-5 years
“So on one side, I believe that if you draw it out three to five years, more than 50% of the customer service interactions will be fully handled by AI very comfortably.”
Jain: No Observe AI enterprise customers have reduced human headcount yet
“I've not seen reduction in customer service reps by any of our customers. And we have customers who have tens of thousands of agents. So we would be the first one to see the impact and the reality is nothing yet.”
Jain: Standalone voice AI is a commodity that won't make money
“Voice AI is commodity. That's not the future. No one is going to make money in the long run on just being a standalone, simple vanilla voice AI company. You have to build enterprise grade deep platforms.”
Goel: Open Offices Will Disappear as Workers Constantly Talk to AI
“Imagine a workplace of the future where actually the way you work is you constantly have this collaborator and you actually redesign the workplace to Help people be able to work alongside the AI collaborator. So you can't have open office spaces anymore, becau…”
Krishnan: Engineers at many companies have not written code in six months
“There are so many companies now where software engineers have not had to write a single line of code in say more than six months, which is I mean, quite unprecedented, right?”
Krishnan: AI will reach coding-level trust in law and taxes in 1-2 years
“Definitely. This is not the case with the law and a number of other law or taxes and a number of other things, but it's only a matter of time. I think the models will get there in the next probably year or two.”
Ahluwalia: Required software developers per company are shrinking by magnitudes
“The role of a single software developer is increasing, whereas the number of software developers required in a single company is shrinking by magnitudes.”
Krishnan: Unreviewed AI-generated code will create widespread security vulnerabilities
“Where people are suddenly able to produce many tens of thousands of lines of code. Nobody has time to review. Nobody has this one. At best, people can do a sanity check and move on. I guarantee it is going to create a lot of security holes and various other so…”
Penmetsa: Foundation model labs will not build specialized vertical products
“But do I think they'll build a product for legal that can really work inside, you know, complicated law firms for healthcare, for construction, for automotive? I don't think so.”
Dalal: Nest shipped the first deep learning algorithm in the wild in 2016
“I worked on Nest camera algorithms, and through this experience, we did ship the first deep learning algorithm in the wild in 2016 on Nest cameras.”
Nariyawala: Viable Home Humanoid Robots Are at Least 5 to 10 Years Away
“So let's assume that the complexity of your humanoid, which is much more complex than self-driving car, it can be sort of a shrunk or can be countered by speed and computes and improvement in algorithm. Even then, you're probably looking at five years, maybe 1…”
Senpaty: Bank NPAs hit 10% on Tier 2 and Tier 3 education loans
“Whereas if you compare it with banks, once they move out from IITs and go towards other instit institutes, tier two, tier three institutes their NPS shoot up to close to around a 10% sort of level.”
Tewari: Consumers will not pay for artificial intelligence
“So we actually believe that artificial intelligence will not be something that consumers will pay for.”
Sardana: At most 10% to 15% of Indian house help spending will move online
“Look, if you think about what does India spend on house help, and then you think about what percent will ever shift online to a platform like this, call it 10, 15% at max If you're only going after, you know, the, my house help is missing for the day market by…”
Siddharth: Frontier AI models can autonomously build software systems for weeks
“You're seeing what the coding models today are capable of building end-to-end systems, like coding for days. Sometimes a week.”
AI coding improvements boost model performance across unrelated non-coding tasks
“When the models improve in coding, they have out of domain performance. They also improve in other tasks that have nothing to do with coding for reasons we don't fully understand.”
Siddharth: AGI Will Make Humans 100x More Productive
“AGI is going to just make humans a hundred X more productive.”
Saxena: Major enterprise AI failures will stem from bad data feeds
“So at some point, you're going to start seeing front page headlines in the Wall Street Journal saying, this healthcare company or insurance company rejected one million claims, which it shouldn't have because the AI agent went rogue, or this credit card compan…”
Saxena: AI startups are hitting $100M ARR in two years under 50 people
“Today with AI, we are seeing companies. It's not impossible to see a company that gets to a hundred million ARR in two years with less than 50 people, right?”
Saxena: Enterprises will demand autonomous AI resolution within two years
“At some point, I bet you, 12 months, 18 months, two years from now, the customer will come and say, Shashank, this is very dumb. I'm unhappy. Why? Because you've already done the whole resolution plan. Why do I have to come in and manually hit approve? Just do…”
Ambati: AI foundation models will capture more than 10% of software
“We are starting to see more evidence that models are going to own that more than the 10%, ah, you know, whether it's the new plugins that, ah, you know, Claude has released that shook up the whole SecOps market.”
Ambati: Advanced AI models will become more expensive as compute demands increase
“I think the, they're gonna get more expensive as the models get better the compute needs are gonna, you know, increase, and then you're gonna get better.”
Ambati: Base token prices will fall while latest frontier models get pricier
“So there is a time in the next year and two where we'll start to see these directionally, yes all the token prices are going down. But as the models are maturing, we are starting to see that, you know, the opposite effect as well, where, you know, the cost is …”
Ambati: AI inference market will reach $1.3T-$1.4T by 2030
“The inference market is one of the largest or so the fastest growing CAGR. So what we are seeing is about 94% CAGR. And then, you know, today, I think around 20, 26, we are looking at an eighty billion dollar sort of market. But soon by 2030 it's gonna be a 1.…”
Keshavachar: China's April 2025 rare earth embargo shut down global companies
“They did an embargo on the export of rare earth-based magnets and a few other components in April of 25. So that led to shutting down Several companies all around the world.”
Keshavachar: Rare-earth PMSM is the only deployed efficient motor tech today
“Today the only way to build an efficient motor is using the rare earth-based magnets. It's called PMSM motor. There's no other technology that is deployed”
Keshavachar: Next civilization will be built on rare earths
“I strongly believe that the next civilization, ah, will be built on rare earths. Whoever controls the rare earths will have an upper hand.”
Keshavachar: India lacks battery production capacity and imports every cell
“Ah, the third one is batteries, which India still does not have any production capacity. I know they're all coming up, but as of now, every cell that used in India is imported from outside.”
Reddy: Capillary Pays 25% Below Market; Exiting Employees Get 90% Salary Hikes
“Yeah, I'd say actually 25%. And we now have data to prove that. So unless you, ah, usually when people leave us, ah, they get a 80, 90% hike.”
Nair: AI agents make up 28% to 43% of internet traffic
“Agents are approximately 28. By some counts, approximately 43% of the internet traffic right now are agents.”
Nair: Domestic Chores Will Be First Viral Autonomous Robot Use Case
“I hate to make predictions, but I do not think we are talking about multiple years, probably two years, but in the next 12 to 24 months, there will be significant movements in autonomous robots. I mean, the amount of work that is being done here, and one of th…”
Nair: Near-Zero Software Costs Will Enable Ephemeral Agent-Built Applications
“You will build a software app that you and your wife and your family might use three times, and that's it you'll never use again, because the cost of building software will be so close to zero, which means that the process of building software also will be don…”