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He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India
- ▶ 30:55 Ted Santos You know, there, there are all these stories of him going to India to find a guru, and I'm going to assert that was one of the things that he was after is this self mastery.
He Called Deal Making a Lie - Then Fell in Love With It
- ▶ 1:03 Renan de Villiers What I think is that the factories that are going to be created in the U.S. are going to be vastly different from the factories we are seeing in China or Indonesia or India or whatever, because the set of constraints is vastly different.
He Walked Into a Wall in the Dark and Rethought Everything
- ▶ 20:22 Matthew Stafford I've been to India six times and traveled all over that country.
Picking the Hardest Business Model on Earth Has a Backdoor Exit
- ▶ 17:45 Saleem Renoui But now with the tariffs, it becomes a must for these brands, especially if they're producing in Vietnam, Pakistan, India, China, most of the producing countries.
Founder Market Fit Got Them $4.2M Before a Product Existed
- ▶ 0:47 Sean Weisbrot In this episode, we talk about the company as well as their experience fundraising millions of dollars and living and working between teams and offices in the US in India.
- ▶ 5:49 Sean Weisbrot Your team is based in India, I believe. 7 times in the scene
From $0 to Half a Million in 30 Days Without Running a Single Ad
- ▶ 9:27 Cody Bramlett From China, from India, um, the supplement markets are very, um, like buying grain, right? 2 times in the scene
95% Referral Growth and He Almost Did It Alone
- ▶ 16:11 Sean Weisbrot What if I have a factory in India?
He Built Software That Saved Lives and Cared More About That Than the Money
- ▶ 13:28 Yasir Jabu So as I said, there were some, um, if maybe it started in college when I was helping people build their computers and they were like men buying in India, buying a Dell, a desktop is too expensive. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:25 Yasir Jabu What has been unique in my journey as, you know, growing up, I ended up, I did my education in India, and I ended up going to a Christian missionary school.
- ▶ 40:29 Yasir Jabu And, uh, you know, as I went into grade 11th and 12th, which in India is a different school system, then I realized that I, I had gotten better control over my anger and how I would react to others and, you know, give them, give them, I… 2 times in the scene
Golf at 5:30am in the Dark Changed Everything About How He Runs His Company
- ▶ 10:43 Vikram Saxena And coming from India, you know, where and especially, you know, where the education was a very high priority for parents and there was always, there's always been a pressure, you know, for you to either become, you are an intelligent… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:48 Sean Weisbrot That's in India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:12 Vikram Saxena See my dad, when I was young, you know, I said, my dad was a very successful lawyer in a very small town in India.
- ▶ 32:22 Sean Weisbrot Cause I mean, developers and specifically like computer science people coming out of India, like there's so much talent in that, in that generation.
- ▶ 36:06 Vikram Saxena And especially because boarding schools, I don't know how much you know about boarding schools, and especially in the Indian world, you know, boarding schools are pretty much your, uh, survival for the fittest kind of environment, right? 2 times in the scene
He Spent 3.5 Hours Telling Them Not to Hire Him
- ▶ 18:53 Sean Weisbrot Some of them are from India, Pakistan, Philippines, right, because I was living in Asia, and the company is incorporated in Asia, so naturally we're more inclined to hire people living in Asian time zones because it makes it easier to work…
He Joined VC With No Plan to Stay - Here Is What He Was Really After
- ▶ 0:17 Sean Weisbrot He was formerly an investor with Elevation Capital, which invests in early stage startups out of India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:21 Ishan Rakshit The US product differ in this matter because payments success rates is a big problem in India. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:37 Sean Weisbrot I know India has, uh, definitely its own challenges. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:59 Sean Weisbrot Is it difficult to run a startup from the U S that's focused on India? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:18 Sean Weisbrot So shopflow isn't your first company, but is it your first company where you're spending time outside of India while you're building it? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Sean Weisbrot If all of that was clear to you and it made sense, why did you still go after the Indian market as well? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:40 Ishan Rakshit It was happening in India.
- ▶ 27:20 Ishan Rakshit I think the third piece is, I don't know how much valid it is in the US, but in India being a part of a well-renowned VC, I think the one that I worked in was one of the top three largest funds in India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:42 Ishan Rakshit Ah, we also don't still have the maturity of figuring out who to hire and how to hire there, and what we look at when we hire in India might be different from what we look at when we hire in the US. 2 times in the scene
10,000 Investor Meetings Later, He Saw One Same-Day Commitment
- ▶ 32:55 Sean Weisbrot I know a number of people that will make trips to Shenzhen specifically to find parts, and then whether it's being, you know, manufactured in the Philippines, or Indonesia, or Vietnam, or India, Mexico, what have you. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:19 Sean Weisbrot I've been to India. 7 times in the scene
Sleep Deprivation Is a War Tactic. Mothers Do It for Months.
- ▶ 34:00 Alina Furman Um, and yes, I think that we, I had remember having some massage, uh, but it wasn't, uh, until it really hit me when I started, uh, I went online, I started seeing all these videos of babies being massaged in Asia and other Eastern, uh,…
The Formula for Grossing $400000/Month With a Remote Team
- ▶ 10:50 Sean Weisbrot The reason being is you might be doing something that only serves Americans and you might be afraid that someone in India won't understand the American mentality and therefore it might be hard. 3 times in the scene
3 White Male Co-Founders Noticed a Pattern and Changed It
- ▶ 11:34 Simon Schillebeeckx Except like in countries like India, you have a regulatory obligation to do some kind of philanthropic giving from the moment that you become profitable.
- ▶ 53:50 Simon Schillebeeckx Um, but it's harder to do with, um, let's say some of our team in India that are developers, uh, except for one, uh, they're all developers and.
Why a Weekly Email Changed What Founders Thought Mattered
- ▶ 4:44 Vaibhav Tiwari Um, we, we've given demos to some of the conferences which were going on in India specifically.
- ▶ 7:33 Vaibhav Tiwari So we, we, and mostly our team is in India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 Vaibhav Tiwari So, um, initially we started in India, but, um, when, when we started globally, when we got a lot of global clients and when we got a lot of investors from U S from Shanghai, then, um, there was, um, there was, um, an opinion that we… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:59 Vaibhav Tiwari He recently moved to Dubai and he was very much, uh, forcing us that it would be good if you also, if you guys also move in, it's, it's a great place and everything, but, um, I still believe, um, uh, I mean, uh, working in India is… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:31 Vaibhav Tiwari There are a lot of clients which are there at the, and there is also one taxi application that we are working with here in India.
Why Your Superstar Already Has One Foot Out the Door
- ▶ 30:58 Sean Weisbrot And I think that that's really important, especially when I've had some team members who are from India and Pakistan and the Philippines, where they're used to really not getting praise.
2 Billion People Use a Super App That Isn't One
- ▶ 24:49 Sean Weisbrot Well, I know India's had a problem
- ▶ 35:55 Sean Weisbrot Um, I was going to say probably closer to eight because China doesn't publish its numbers properly and India probably doesn't know exactly what their numbers are.
Webflow Calls Itself No-Code But Here Is What They Leave Out
- ▶ 48:39 Sean Weisbrot But like, you know, we've got a person in Pakistan, a person in India, now a person in Greece and Portugal, Malaysia and, and the Philippines.
300 Portfolio Companies Later, 22 Became Unicorns Without Diluting
- ▶ 0:26 Sean Weisbrot Which provides loans to companies backed by venture capitalists in the Southeast Asian region, including India and China.
- ▶ 3:04 Paul Ong Innovin Capital is Asia's largest venture debt provider with offices in India, in China, as well as in Singapore, uh, for the Southeast Asian region.
- ▶ 11:07 Paul Ong So we've been operating, you know, in Southeast Asia for six years, we've been operating in India for 14 years. 7 times in the scene
Codifying Empathy: What 1 Million Slides Taught This Founder
- ▶ 1:00 Sean Weisbrot I was really inspired by his lifestyle and his journey because he grew up in India and learned IT like a lot of Indians do and come over to America for work, and he was able to build a life, build a career, build a family, and now to build…
- ▶ 28:26 Rajat Mishra And I'm also on the board of an orphanage in India. 4 times in the scene
The Thank-You Letter Trick That Shook 10 Top Managers
- ▶ 3:31 Michael Podolsky I tried Philippines, I tried India, uh, and then I went back to Ukraine.
The Founder-Fit Secret VCs Don't Want You to Know
The Hidden Drought That Toppled Governments Across a Whole Region
- ▶ 39:10 Cenk Siddar Now, using Netflix, I can watch Indian or Nigerian or Latin American productions in the U.S.
The 'No Blueprint' Truth Behind Selling Three Brands
- ▶ 6:15 Sean Weisbrot Yeah, this happens for a lot of immigrants that come as kids, especially I know kids that are from India and China.