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Parekh: Startups will contribute $2T-$5T to India's future economy
“A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Right. Think of these the top 10 companies today itself. And if you add up their market cap and even today and experience, assume that this will grow up five X, 10 X over the next 10 years, that's the minimum that you woul…”
Ferrari: Single-product companies will be more willing to sell due to AI risks
“In the imminent future, the next few years, I think it, it's an advantage for us for a bunch of reasons. First of all, it's a major threat for a lot of businesses, and if you are a single product business it makes you more willing, I believe, to sell. Because …”
Krishna: India risks demographic nightmare without 20 million annual new jobs
“So I think unless we create twenty million new jobs, India is going to have huge people keep talking about demographic dividend. No, we'll have a demographic nightmare. Unless we fix this problem.”
Kumar: India Unlikely to Achieve Growth Needed for $5T Target
“Assuming that the data is correct, that the Indian government is putting out, we will need at least a nine percent rate of growth if in the next three years we are to reach the third largest economy, that five trillion dollar goal. And we've had only six and a…”
Kumar: India Will Miss $14,000 Per Capita Developed Goal by 2047
“Similarly, if by 2047, we have to become a developed economy, we have reached 14,000 dollars per capita. From where we are, that would require 11 and a half percent rate of growth for the next 25 years. Now, hardly any economy has achieved over 25 years, 11 an…”
Clifford: India will produce its first trillion-dollar company
“And its first trillion dollar company. It will happen.”
Bagri: Indian passport won't rival US or Singapore mobility until 2047
“Like, 2047, I think. When we are a developed country, that will take time.”
Garg: India will produce more $500M–$1B outcomes than Flipkart-scale mega-exits
“There may not be Flipkart type Many, many, many outcomes in the ecosystem, but there can be a lot more, five hundred million to a billion type outcomes in the country.”
India Will Produce 5x More $100M Software Companies by 2032
“So I think India can get 200 companies at a hundred million by 2030. Why not? Definitely India can get to that. So typically 15 in this decade, in the next decade, I would say 2030, 2032, give and take plus two years here. We can produce five X of what we prod…”
Indian SaaS Will Reach 6% Global Share and $70B in Revenue
“We are projecting about six percent. If you go to six percent, because SaaS is also a foundation also going, we will touch about 60, seventy billion dollars in revenue. That's what we need to touch. To get to that half a trillion to trillion dollar market cap.”
Doddala: 60% of 2021-2022 unicorns will probably never realize their valuations
“I think, 60% of the unicorns that were marked up in, you know, in our 20, 21, 20, 22, Are probably not going to ever realize their markups.”
Sethi: 80% of Recent Venture Capital Will Go to Zero or Consolidate
“And I think people are, in my opinion, and what we're geared up for is that about 80% of the, that capital is gonna get into consolidated or zero.”
India will export clean energy instead of importing fossil fuels by 2047
“हमारा लक्श अमृत काल में ये है जो मान्या प्रतान मंतरी जी ने कहा कि हम दोहजार सैंतालीस तक हम इमपोरट करने के बदले इनर्जी कलीन इनर्जी को एकसपोरट करेंगे So we'll be an exporter of clean energy rather than an importer of hundred and eighty billion worth of fossil fu…”
India will exceed 10% growth if states like Bihar and Rajasthan transform
“If Bihar transforms, if Chhattisgarh transforms, if Jharkhand transforms, if all Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, all of them start growing at high rates, then India will be growing at 10% plus for the next three, four decades.”
Chanchani: Indian startup IPOs will cap out at $4B this year
“So anywhere between so what is said is that for FYI, this particular financial year we'll end up having IPOs around one lakh crore, which is what? About 12 odd billion dollars? Just twelve billion dollars, right? So what does that leave for us? Maybe about, yo…”
Chanchani: Indian quick commerce market cap could reach $100 billion
“Today, if a DMART is being valued at what it is, right? I mean, I don't think it's outrageous to believe that, you know, the quick commerce market cap in India can go all the way up to say even, even a hundred billion dollars.”
Chanchani: Indian startups will create hundreds of thousands of wealthy employees
“I think that third wave is being brought about by our startups where, you know, we'll probably end up seeing, you know, lakhs of people actually you know, becoming rich. By being simply employees rather than, you know, becoming founders”
Mayya: Incumbents like Premiere Pro will win the generative video market
“And who I think will win is, I think there's a bunch of video editing tools that will win all this, like Premiere Pro, for example or for, or After Effects, where it'll just be like, okay, you know, prompt the B-roll clip and put it there. Just like Photoshop …”
Mayya: Physical robots will handle farming and everyday tasks within five years
“In five years, we'll have physical robots. Like I'm fairly certain we'll have robots helping us with tasks, helping us, you know, even if, like I used to say, well, there's no job for me on online. I'll probably go end up doing farming, right? I think AI will …”
Mayya: Google will win the AI race because it controls distribution
“They own YouTube. They own Android. They own the browser. They own distribution. So, no matter who builds the LLM, like I said, LLMs are going to be commoditized. They are going to win the game.”
Srikantaiah: 2°C warming could make Indian cities unlivable within five years
“If we hit two degrees Celsius,
It will, with urban heat island and fast evaporation of water, even in five years, it will become unlivable.”
Srikantaiah: India Must Prepare for Large-Scale Migration from Rural Areas
“So therefore be prepared for large scale migration from the rural areas.”
Rangarajan: AI replacing intellectual labor could reduce overall human labor demand
“The AI and generic AI and other things are essentially substituting not the manual labor, but even the intellectual labor. That imposes, that creates a situation in which the demand for human labor itself could go down.”
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.”
Sachdeva: The first profitable Bharat business will be social media
“So the first profitable Bharat business would actually be a social media business. If you think about it from that phase, right?”
Sachdeva: GenAI will dynamically create unique short videos for every session
“Every single time you open a short video app, it will generate a video for you.”
India's Population Will Never Reach Two Billion Due to Falling Fertility
“First of all, I don't think we'll ever have a two billion population. As I said, we are not producing enough children already. To be able to sustain the current population. So while our population may go up a little bit long more because of longevity growth po…”
Ghosh: Indian IT Services Will Adopt GenAI, Not Be Disrupted
“Instead of us thinking they'll be disrupted, I suspect Indian services and consulting sector will start using generative AI and will actually come up with new stuff.”
Lunia: Developing nations will be digitized by Indian software over next 20 years
“So I feel that next 20 years, The whole rest of the world, which is not in the developed countries will be digitized by India. The developed countries were digitized by America. Granted the next wave is ours because we are the only talent pool.”
Lunia: Full-time domestic help in India will become unaffordable within 10 years
“10 years later, it'll be unaffordable unless you're super rich, you will not have any such thing.”
Lunia: Non-US markets will surpass America in tech M&A within 10 years
“In SAS particularly, I feel increasingly it's happening in many businesses.
There will be enough MNA opportunities also, because like I said, in 10 years rest of the world becomes a more important MNA market than just pure America.”
Kumar: India will have 1,000 or more unicorns within a decade
“Oh, it's maybe even more. I'm extremely bullish, right?”
Pai: India will likely have more tech workers than the US by 2026
“By 20, 25, 26, we probably will have more people working in technology than the United States.”
Pai: India will hit a $5 trillion GDP by 2026
“I think by 2026, which will reach five trillion dollars GDP, the rupee dollar remains the same.”
Pai: India will overtake Germany and Japan's economies in 2-3 years
“We'll be the third largest economy, because today we are at 3.4 trillion, by March 24, we'll be 3.7 trillion, Germany is 4.3, and Japan is 4.4, so we'll not take it. In the next two, three years, we'll not take it. They're not growing.”
Mehta: EVs cannot profit on servicing and must monetize software upgrades
“Long term, I do think that electric vehicles are not going to make money on servicing. They just can't. And as quality improves for each of, each one of us, their number will drop even further. I think long-term electric vehicles will have to make money on som…”
Ahluwalia: Whatfix might become bigger than Freshworks within 10 years
“India, I would say it would be Wattfix, since I get to know Khadem very closely, and I think Khadem is building the next Freshworks, or Wattfix might become bigger than Freshworks in the next 10 years.”
Radhakrishna: Koo will be more profitable than any Indian social platform
“So I think all of these reasons put together, these have come together now and kind of like, you know, answered why we exist and why we will be more profitable than any other platform that has started off from India.”
Radhakrishna: 99% of Indian users will never pay Twitter for verification
“For countries like India, Where even the top one percent will think twice about paying Twitter that money. The rest of the 99% will never pay.”
Radhakrishna: Musk's strategy at Twitter is great for Koo globally
“Every move that Elon is taking might be good for the US and the US business, but for the rest of the world, I think it's great for coup.”
Radhakrishna: UPI will disrupt Visa and Mastercard internationally
“So fintech, like UPI and, you know, everything else that India has developed, I think is amazing. We're already integrating with the Singapore and Middle East, and so I think that is a welcome change. It will disrupt Visa, MasterCard, you know, all of these.”
Sinha: Existing Payment Companies Will Dominate, Blocking New Entrants Within Five Years
“Same is going to happen with payments also in the next five years, right? So whatever payment companies are there today in five years, they'll become more dominant and it's very difficult to start a payments company.”
Virwani: WeWork India will hit $1 billion in revenue by 2026
“So, yeah, I think within three years.”
Aadit Palicha predicts India's largest internet business will be online grocery
“If anyone can build the largest business in internet in the country, it'll be online grocery.”
Aadit Palicha predicts Zepto can reach a $30B to $40B valuation
“Both Kevali and I wake up every morning knowing that if we make the right decisions, we're sitting on that DMART level outcome of building a 30, forty billion dollar company.”
Aadit Palicha predicts Zepto will be a profitable public company by 2028
“Five years from now, I'll be talking to you saying, you know what, we're a highly profitable public company in grocery.”
Goyal: Late-stage venture funding will collapse in 2023
“I think 2023 is going to be a very hard time. What that means is that as public comms correct, or have corrected, I'm sorry, you will see that the late stage funding is going to go for a toss totally.”
Goyal: Number of Indian $100M+ ARR SaaS companies will grow exponentially
“I think of this as an exponential curve, Siddharth, not as a linear curve. You build one today, you build three tomorrow, you build nine the year after, and then 27 the year after. So, I think of it as an exponential journey and not a linear journey.”