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Kumar: Savings Potential for Top Talent Is Higher in India Than West
“The salaries are on par, really, you know, like, the top you go, like, in fact, your, you, your saving potential will be much, much higher in India than in the West, because in the West it is kind of saturated.”
Kumar: ₹1 Crore Tech Leadership Salaries Are Now Normal in India
“And in India, it's one crore become normal, right? Like even a bid manager and at leadership level, it became normal.”
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.”
Kumar: IT Giants Infosys and TCS Built India's Current Tech Talent Pool
“I think we need to thank all this consulting firms like Infosys and TCS and Wipos what they've done in the last 2030 years is what the talent pool, what we are seeing now, right?”
Kumar: Most Indian software product founders started at IT services firms
“So all the, today's, all the product founders, if you look at it, if you go all the way back, they would have worked in one of those companies at some point.”
Kumar: India Offers Better Quality of Life Than West for the Affluent
“If you have money, India is the best place to live. You get, you know, five mates and driver and everything is taken care of. In the West, you can't do that. You know, like even when you're earning that kind of money, you still need to vacuum your house and, y…”
Kumar: India will build Salesforce-scale tech giants in 10-20 years
“I think maybe in the next two, 20 years, we will see something like the next wave. Like, you know, now we are building products. It's all about now. How do you build a large scale products like Salesforce or Microsoft? It will happen. Eventually it will happen…”
Kumar: GTM execution, not technology, is the main bottleneck for Indian SaaS
“Today, you can build a sales force. Building Salesforce is not a problem. Only the GTM part is is the problem because that is what we are lagging because we didn't learn the playbook in the last 20 years. So only technology part we learned.”
Kumar: Tech migration to Bangalore will slow as quality of life drops
“I think it will, I feel it's eventually slowed down because people, everybody, now they understand what are the challenges of moving some to Bangalore. The quality of life, definitely it's suffered for everybody, right?”
Saravana Kumar: Coimbatore beats Bangalore given equal career prospects
“In India, if I think, you know when I, if somebody gives me a choice, you have exactly same career prospects, and what you can do in one place versus the other, and you, whether you want to take Bangalore or Coimbatore, I will take Coimbatore at current moment…”
Kumar: Kovai.co aims to reach $100M revenue by 2030
“I think one of the long term plan is whether we can create a hundred million dollar company by 2030 is what we are looking at. Multi products and then scale to that level. And I think we are hopeful we will be able to achieve that and all the focus and directi…”
Kumar: Kovai.co Plans to Cap Headcount at 300 and Grow Revenue 5x
“Even today, like people ask me, are you going to be like 600 people? And no, that's not, not the goal, you know, like, we want it to be 300 and get to five extra revenue.”
Kumar: Kovai.co work life and facilities match Bangalore and Hyderabad
“For Covey employees, I'm pretty sure the work life is pretty identical. They won't miss out, like Not only just the nice to have things like office and those kind of things, even work wise, we do cutting edge thing and we constantly focus on whether we are doi…”
Kumar: Kovai.co is generating $10M to $20M in revenue
“We are in a 10 to twenty million dollar journey now. 10 is actually a bit old number. It's our 20 20 number, but that's a public number. We are in that journey.”
Kumar: Accenture needed 18 people to replace his UK healthcare work
“Accenture won this biggest contract for healthcare in UK. So they are connecting every single doctors and hospitals together. And there are so many vendors involved, like healthcare vendors, and they will come and deploy something and that will break the core …”