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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…”
Kumar: Most milk in India exceeds regulatory aflatoxin limits
“There is a food safety standards, ok, guideline on what is the limit of aflatoxin. Most of the milk in the country is above, ok, that limit.”
Bajaj: India has never built SaaS companies reaching million-dollar ACVs
“They don't want to operate in this five, 10, 20,050 thousand ACV. They have aspirations to do hundreds of thousands or millions in ACV. India has never done that.”
India's socialist policies collapsed GDP per capita from $2,730 to $300
“Because of the socialist policies that we pursued from then on till 1991, when we liberalized and there is an important lesson actually, that's why I'm explaining this. We reduced our GDP per capita from 2730 to 300 dollars.”
Kumar: Human lactase enzyme production can be easily revived
“By design, we have a lactase enzyme. Ok, it can be revived. Ok, it can be easily revived.”
Sharma: Tejas Networks will replace Huawei globally within a year
“What if I tell you that a year from now, it'll be Tejas. And if it is Tejas, then you have to take me out for lunch. And if it is not Tejas, I'll take all of you out for lunch, right? As having lost the bed.”
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…”
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.”
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: 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: 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.”
Bajaria: 6sense Is the Only Survivor From Forrester's Predictive Scoring Wave
“So there's a Forrester way for this. You can see B to B predictive lead scoring. It's called, I think B to B predictive lead scoring. You can see it like a lot of logos on it. Sixth Sense is the only company that still exists.”
Atluri: Cost-plus contracts led Lockheed and Boeing to launch almost no rockets
“Lockheed and Boeing had a cost plus contract model. And how many rockets flew? Almost no, almost none flew from them. Because if the moment you rocket start flying, the project has to be closed down.”
Sanyal: No country has ever recovered from sub-replacement fertility rates
“No country in the world has once their fertility rate has fallen below replacement has been able to push it back up.”
Bajaj: 90% of global semiconductor chip design goes through India
“If you look at semiconductors, 90%, I don't know if you know this statistic, 90% of chip design goes through India, including the Chinese trips.”
Sharma: Relying On Visa And Mastercard Means A 1% Foreign Tax
“The fact is that when your economy is reliant on Visa MasterCard, you're paying a one person tax to a third country, right?”
Garg: Under 5% of Indian Farmers Earn 60K-70K Rupees Per Hectare
“60 to 70,000 per hectare is my challenge. Hardly five percent of the farmers in India will be earning by doing everything in the agriculture.”
Intermediaries capture 90% of value from Indian farmers under APMC rules
“Because of this phenomenon of hundred rupees of value added, let's say in, you know, in farm produce, 90 rupees is cornered by the intermediary. The farmer, small farmer gets only 10 rupees.”
Krishna: Indian government and PSUs are the biggest non-payers of MSMEs
“Government is the biggest part is on one side of it where many PSUs and governments have not paid MSMEs.”
Nadhani: Indian SaaS engineering offers only ~1.5x cost leverage over US
“R and D you have 1.5 X leverage India to us engineers. It's not massive. Like let's say not an SF engineer, but somewhere in between engineer, like a Midwest or something.”
Bagri: Roughly 40% of all personal loans in India fund travel
“So the number of personal loans which are taken for travel is almost 40% if I'm not wrong.”
Garg: Only a handful of Indian tech companies exceed $30M–$40M ARR
“A lot of Indian companies are, have started to reach A million to million type of ARRs, but have not a lot of companies beyond a few that you can count on your hands are beyond the 30, forty million ARR today.”
Sachdeva: Delhi High Court ordered ByteDance to stop scraping ShareChat
“We in fact went to Delhi High Court. If you can Google ShareChat versus Hello or ByteDance. In fact, Delhi Highcore told, told them to not do this, not scrape, and in fact, change their app.”
Kumar: Soil organic carbon across Indian farmlands is under 1%
“All the lands in India today, soil organic carbon is less than one percent.”
Pai: India exports more software than Saudi Arabia exports oil
“And we export more software than Saudi Arabia export soil.”
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.”
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.”
Virwani: WeWork India will hit $1 billion in revenue by 2026
“So, yeah, I think within three years.”
Viable quick commerce delivery windows will settle between 30 and 90 minutes
“So you will build a model which is within 30 minutes, right? Less than 30 minutes. There'll be some which will go up to 90 minutes. So 30 to 90 is the range you'll find. Less than 30, less than 90.”
India Has More Smartphone Owners Than Active Digital Payment Users
“India is actually, if you think about it, it's the only country in the world where, ah, you know, more people have smartphones today than they are actively doing payments or digital transactions or you know, or even actively using bank accounts or have credit …”
Bijapur predicts SpotDraft will reach $100 million ARR within three years
“In the next three years, we'll be a hundred million dollar ARR company.”
Jain Predicts 25 to 30 Indian SaaS US IPOs by 2025
“So I think three to four years, you will see a whole more companies probably I don't know, 25, 30 companies IPO-ing from India in the US.”
Singhal: CoinSwitch aims to reach 100 million users in four years
“The goal of CoinSwitch is to reach hundred million users in the next four years, right? Which is a very audacious goal in a fintech ecosystem, but we believe that through the right investment we can make that happen, right?”
Acharya: Zetwerk has runway to reach $10B revenue in five years
“I see us having a pretty strong runway to even ten billion dollars of revenue in the kind of next, you know, five, five years, kind of time, time horizon.”
Singh: Pratilipi Comics will lead all Indian comic publishers by 2023
“In fact, I'm pretty sure, like, I will take, I will give good odds that in the next two years we'll be the largest comic player, like, that's it, like, online, offline, whatever. Both in terms of titles, in terms of revenue, in terms of users, everything.”
Jhina: Jumbotail will build a $7B-$10B business in five years
“And now we're, you know, looking at expanding, you know, three, four X you know, over this year and over the next five years building a, you know, seven to ten billion dollar business because of the fact that, you know, the model is replicable.”
Mammography fails for women under 45 due to dense breast tissue
“It does not work on women under 45 years of age because what we call as dense press, you know, The kind of fibroglandial tissue that many of the men who are like about what if I also have this and also younger women definitely have this. So, so the whole breas…”
Bajpai: ixigo train app downloads probably exceed all travel competitors combined
“If you aggregate all other players in the category and you look at it, it's a good trainer. We probably do more downloads than all other players in the travel category put together.”
Sidana: The Average Venture Capital Firm Generates Flat or Negative Returns
“General belief is that the average venture capital firm has either zero or perhaps even negative returns net of fees. So as an asset class, venture capital on average Is not a profitable business.”
Sankar: Less than 10% of human job performance stems from cognitive intelligence
“And in fact, less than 10% of human job performance is explained through cognitive intelligence. Everything else is Context and how you learn on the job and how you act in real life.”
Gupta: We coined the term 'cloud security posture management' in 2017
“We actually coined that word back in 2017, cloud security posture management, and the whole idea was getting that kind of visibility, and then we are also helping them with taking an action and things like that, and it was super easy.”
Agarwal: Claude Opus 4.6 leads Portkey volume despite being the costliest model
“For the first time, we saw four, six Opus, which is the costliest model there is right now, is at the top of the charts in terms of number of tokens spent.”
Rajagopal: Every biscuit brand in India contains palm oil
“Go and look at any biscuit brand. Big, medium, small. Every single biscuit brand will have palm oil in it.”