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Jain: High probability customer service AI startup Sierra gets killed
“There's a very high chance Sierra will get killed.”
Garg: Donald Trump will win the Nobel Peace Prize by 2026
“And I think I'm, I have this now conviction, That he'll get the peace prize either in 2025 or 26.”
Garg: Accelerating brain drain by 5x to 10x would make India prosperous
“If you can increase the speed of this brain drain by five to 10 times Right. Believe me, India would be a prosperous country.”
Subramanian: Hollywood studios will become obsolete as AI generates content
“When I went this time, I was looking at it, wow, this is all going to become dinosauric, because content is going to be created by AI.”
Siddharth: AI will allow individuals to run 7 to 8 companies simultaneously
“Now, I think in the limit over the next decade, every human might run seven to eight companies as these, as the loop from idea to, I mean, as you can go from prompt to company in hopefully like a single step over the next decade.”
Nair: Consumer Brand-Only Businesses Will Vanish Under Agentic Shopping
“Now think about the implications on commerce, branding, web. Companies where brand itself is the entire business. All of that vanishes.”
Aggarwal: Autonomous cloud infrastructure will entirely eliminate enterprise DevOps roles
“I think, ah, my view is that future should be that everything is autonomous, and we don't need that role in, in an organization.”
Bhushan: Goyal and Majety will replace Tata and Reliance as role models
“I think, 50 years from now, we'll not talk about Reliance Starter. We'll probably talk about Dipinder and Harsha. I hope that happens, but they would be the next role model.”
Garg: Dozens of startups are poised to eat Salesforce's lunch
“I think there are dozens of companies that are poised to eat Salesforce's lunch. But those companies, despite the distribution disadvantage, are positioning themselves to do so.”
Garg: US Dollar will lose reserve currency status by 2034
“So by 2034, that's the timeline I have. Dollar will no longer be a reserve currency.”
Garg: Tesla could reach a $30 trillion market cap in 10 years
“It's a possibility it can become a 30 trillion dollar.”
Dahiya: India Will Surpass China As Largest Economy Due To Institutional Strength
“In my lifetime, we will be the largest or second largest. I think we'll be the largest economy. Simply because China won't be able to keep up because their institutional strength is not so good.”
Mark Mobius predicts India's GDP will definitely overtake China's GDP
“Oh yes, definitely. Because you're seeing China's growing at, let's say two or three percent India's growing at seven percent definitely India will overtake China.”
Parekh: Mercedes, Volvo, and BMW won't survive against Chinese EV makers
“If I were in a Mercedes or Volvo or you know BMW, I'd be very worried. These are brands aren't going to last.”
Nadhani: Rupee-dollar cost arbitrage will not work long-term for SaaS
“I don't believe that this cost arbitrage is probably going to work for the long run because it's a very small part of the PLF”
Mayya: AI will drop India's required retirement corpus to 30-60 lakhs
“With AI, that's only going to reduce. And especially if you're willing to live on land that's slightly far away, that's probably going to go to 30 lakhs, 40 lakhs. So the true, and coming back to AI, right? The true value of AI is it reduces your cost of livin…”
Fafadia predicts physical cash will completely fall out of circulation soon
“So in a few years from now, I do imagine and dare to say that cash will be out of circulation.”
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.”
Mehta: India's electric scooter volumes will catch up to China by 2027
“Volumes, they are ahead, but volumes will catch up in the next three, four years. But in terms of just sheer technology, and product quality, and product the feature list. No, I'm not just speaking for Aether. I'm just, I'm speaking actually about the entire e…”
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…”
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 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.”
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…”
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: 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: 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.”
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.”
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…”
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: 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: 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: 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.”
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…”