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Sikri: US weaponization of the dollar is weakening its own global dominance
“And that in my view represents a long-term danger for the Americans because this biggest tool which they have to dominate the world, they themselves are weakening it.”
Sikri: Israel cannot defeat Iran given Iran's size and population
“I don't think that they can defeat Iran because, you know, given the size of Iran, the population of Iran compared to that of Israel.”
Sikri: Large-scale American casualties would trigger a global war
“Now, if, you know, a few hundred or a thousand Americans die, there will be a global War.”
Atluri: India can become a global defense leader in five years
“So if that happens, I think India can become a leader in five years. My estimation is a little aggressive, but that government will have to get aggressive and place orders on these guys who have made the product.”
Sanyal: Removing guild restrictions will ignite a wave of Indian consultancies
“You see, there are so many Indians in this space moment. We open it up large numbers of Indians, both based in India and many based abroad. We'll start.”
Chakkarapani: AI-native full-stack architectures will beat legacy bolt-on AI
“The same thing is happening in AI. If you have heard about this term about the bolt-on AI versus built-in AI, cloud companies, established cloud companies are trying to build AI due to their architecture and complexities. And if they have to produce some AI pr…”
Chopra: Roles requiring trust will rise in value because AI avoids jail
“Because someone is going to pay you a million dollars, and at least for next 10 years, that trust can only be built by humans, because you can't jail an AI, but you definitely can jail a person. So a lot of these things which require this human trust, for lack…”
Namasivayam: Software will increasingly become hyper-customized, on-demand, and ephemeral
“I suspect that we'll increasingly see a world of more and more hyper-customized, on-demand, ephemeral software, which is kind of spun up on demand, used for a certain application, for a certain person, and then it kind of disappears.”
Namasivayam: Usability, Not Tech Moats, Will Win the Synthetic Human Race
“I think a lot of the companies are going to get it wrong because they are going to be focused, hyper-focused on the technology modes. Technology modes are interesting, but I don't think they are long lasting. I think what is more interesting is, does it just w…”
Manickam: Whichever nation masters semiconductor manufacturing will rule the world
“Whoever, you know is able to master this is going to rule the world, right? I mean, this, I think, fundamentally, that has come to, you know, believe, right?”
Manickam: China will achieve self-sufficiency or cease importing US chips
“I think China will, you know, will be, you know, self-sufficient or at least, you know, make sure that they're not importing from us. So I think that is going to accelerate now.”
Manickam: Global tech innovation will fragment across India, China, Europe, and Japan
“Innovation is going to become not just concentrated in one country anymore. It is going to be India. It's going to be China. It's going to be Europe. It's going to be Japan, right? So there's going to be a lot more fragmented innovation that's going to happen.”
Manickam: Mega factories will give way to distributed manufacturing in 10-20 years
“I have this feeling that all this, you know, concentration of this, you know, whether it's a mega factory or mega bank, you know, everything mega mega, right. I think it's going to become more distributed in the next 10 to 20 years.”
Manickam: India Will Democratize Semiconductors Like It Did Pharmaceuticals
“And I think, you know, semiconductor will eventually be something like that. I, you know, I believe, right? Where, you know, it will become more and more affordable, right?... So I think, you know, India will democratize a lot of this, you know, in my opinion.…”
Manickam: India Reaching 3nm Chip Manufacturing in 10 Years Is Very Optimistic
“Definitely. I mean, 10 years is a good, you know, is very optimistic.”
Garg: Zomato can reach a $300B to $500B market cap
“Swiggy may exist, but Swiggy may be a, again, a very large company, a fifty, hundred billion dollar company, but Zomato can be a 304 105 hundred billion dollar company.”
Garg: Gold and Bitcoin will rise significantly over next decade
“So you will see gold and Bitcoin going up significantly, and they are from here also. Yeah, they have been going up and over the, over 10 years, of course, they will.”
Garg: China's energy output will be 4x the US by 2030
“It will by 20 30 be, I think, three and a half, four times of US, right? The energy production.”
Rayapati: AI will eliminate corporate bureaucracy rather than jobs, shrinking large enterprises
“AI will, you know, unlock a lot of capacity and capabilities. So more smaller companies which got struck at 5000, few hundred people, today can actually grow, become Few hundred to few thousand people. I think they will create a lot of jobs while big companies…”
Bajaj: India's tech investing cycle will run for another 15 to 20 years
“And Joe China may eight to 18, Joe us may nine to five to 2010. Well, India has started in 23, 22, and it'll run through because India, we're slowly. So it'll run for another 15 to 20 years.”
Bajaj: A deluge of profitable Indian tech IPOs will follow the market correction
“And therefore, I think once this market correction gets over six months, nine months, 12 months, so many companies have filed, you will see a deluge of IPOs, but in a good way.”
Bajaj: Hundreds of billions in value will be created in Service-as-a-Software
“I hope again, Indian founders wake up to it because the market cap that was created by Infosys and TCS. Is waiting, and I think TCS must be again, two hundred billion and whatever. That's waiting to be created in this service as a software. And we have an edge…”
Sharma: GST Liability Chain Architecture Will Be Vital For AI Regulation
“So we understand these tax liability chains now better than anything else. And that will be important for AI. We'll come back to AI a little later in AI regulation in a very big way.”
Sharma: Strict HIPAA Regulations Will Hinder US Healthcare AI Startups
“Furthermore, this is one place where there is Difficult regulation called HIPAA in the US that will prevent US startups being able to do well.”
Sharma: India Has 5 Years To Avoid Remaining A Services Nation
“This is next few years, our make or break off for India, because as the supply chains are up in the air, We can find our place in this world, you know, by dominating some parts of the supply chain. If we don't do this in the next four or five years, you know, …”
Scaled direct atmospheric carbon removal will likely not occur before 2100
“Maybe post 2100, we'll find that we have scaled up nuclear fusion sufficiently, that we can have the free energy to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. Till then, it's just very difficult to see How we can set up a scaled energy system that can actually pull ca…”
A three-degree Celsius global temperature rise is effectively baked in
“And so the physics of this is actually crystal clear. It's going up three degrees centigrade global average mean temperature is pretty much baked in. It's going to be very difficult to try and avoid that now.”
Most of India's $1T transition capital must come from Global North
“I think the vast majority of the trillion dollars Siddharth is going to have to come from the global north. And of course they will want commercial returns, which is why we need the concessional capital to make it happen. Just the multilateral development bank…”
India could account for 25% of global carbon emissions by 2050
“So right now the projection is we will have about fifty billion tons in twenty-fifty of global carbon equivalent emissions. Out of that fifty billion tons, 10 to fourteen billion tons could actually come from India. So at that time we could be a quarter 25% of…”
Nuclear fusion will become commercially viable within 10 to 15 years
“Nuclear fusion is finally getting within the zone of commercial viability. In the next 10 or 15 years, it'll become commercially viable.”
Goyal: India will produce 10+ billion-dollar SaaS IPOs or exits by 2029
“My hypothesis or my projection, Siddharth, is that in the next three to four years, you will see at least ten billion dollar plus exits or IPOs in SaaS. All built from India.”
Manickam: It will take India 20 years to match TSMC's manufacturing
“Now on the manufacturing, you know, if you want to be like a TSMC, it's probably going to take 20 years.”
Khalid: India Will Favor Musk's Starlink Over Domestic Telecoms
“If you give me a sort of a, if I was a betting man, I'd bet that they will probably tilt towards Elon, right?”
Khalid: Trump Tariffs Could Trigger Pandemic-Level Supply Chain Disruption
“Trump's threats of tariffs are now going to force a supply chain. I mean, it's going to be a supply chain disruption that Could echo, ah, what we saw in 2020 because of the pandemic, right?”
Khalid: Donald Trump Will Not Break Up Big Tech Monopolies
“I don't think that they are, Trump is in the business of breaking up the big tech monopolies.”
Khalid: Israel Cannot Destroy Iranian Nuclear Facilities Without US Help
“So are they going to escalate before and take out Iran's nuclear facilities? I don't think they can physically do that without help from the U.S.”
Khalid: Syrian Opposition Rebels Might Advance Into Damascus Next
“They have now taken over or besieged another city called Homs, and next thing you know, They might be in Damascus.”
Khalid: Yoon Impeachment Will Block South Korea's MSCI Developed Upgrade
“The president is going to be impeached. And when the president is impeached, well, you can forget about economic reform. You can forget about South Korea being upgraded by MSCI from emerging market to developed markets.”
Khalid: Trump Will Push Major US Tech Platforms Into India
“I think Trump will bulldoze the big technology platforms in, into India, right? Because that's part of his thesis. I think Modi will allow him to do that, and I think that will create new ecosystems, especially in the world of AI.”
Lahiri: India has reached economic takeoff and will emerge like 2000s China
“No, but there's reasonable grounds to believe.
that we are in the, we have reached the takeoff stage.
It's like China.
So China, Deng Xiaoping came in in 1979.
Till 1991, nineties, mid nineties, Tiananmen Square, there were doubts.
But it was a silent revoluti…”
Mark Mobius predicts India will become a major high-end semiconductor producer
“Right now, India is a global leader in software, but it will become a leader in computer hardware. It will become a major producer of high-end semiconductors.”
Mobius: The world will not enter a global recession anytime soon
“I don't think the world is going to go into recession anytime soon simply because there's just too much going on, too much growth going on. Of course, you will have downturns from time to time, but these will be temporary. That will not be something that will …”
Rupee will depreciate just 0.5% annually if India grows at 8%
“Having done that, I actually have assessed that if India grows at eight percent, the rupee will actually depreciate by about half a percent per annum.”
India's per capita GDP will reach $40,000 by 2047 at 8% growth
“If we grow at eight percent, our GDP per capita would be close to about 40,000 dollars in two, 20, 47. If we grow, so, so if we grow at seven percent, we'll be close to 30,000 dollars, GDP per capita.”
Subramanian: India per capita GDP will hit $9,500 by 2032
“So from about 2700, you know, we'll be close to 5500, you know, in 2700, yeah, about 5500 in six years and about 11,000 in, you know, in, in, in, 12 years. So by about 20 35, we should be close to 11,000. So my sense is then by 2030 one, 2032, you know, I thin…”
Indian career salaries will multiply 100x compared to 10x in the US
“Salaries in dollar terms in the US will multiply about, let's say, you know, if I even round it off and actually I'm more conservative, you know, over the course of an average career, 10 times salary multiplication would actually be, you know, would be somethi…”
Parekh: DMart will eventually reach the scale of Walmart
“The day India market reaches, D-Mart will be half the size of Walmart, or maybe the size of Walmart, right? So that's going to happen.”
Parekh: India won't build a tech giant for another 15 years
“So whether we'll get a Microsoft, Google, or we'll get a generative AI startup in India, I don't know, or something else which will happen, but it's not going to happen in the next five years. But it'll probably, you think the probability of that happening in …”