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Elon Musk: A Different Conversation w/ Nikhil Kamath | Full Episode | People by WTF Ep. 16 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:04:32 Nikhil Kamath Did she spend any time in India, Siobhan? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:31 Nikhil Kamath So for our audience, like I said earlier, uh, young, ambitious, hungry, wannabe entrepreneurs in India,
- ▶ 1:47:46 Nikhil Kamath We back home in India called it the brain drain. 3 times in the scene
A.R. Rahman: The Genius Who Took Indian Music Global | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF | Ep 15 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 21:31 A. R. Rahman When, when we go out, it's important to present India in the best possible way. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:48 Nikhil Kamath In some way, on the cusp of a change in trend of what kind of music was working in India in the nineties, did you catch a change in trend?
- ▶ 26:52 Nikhil Kamath In India, obviously, Bollywood is very, very popular. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:09 Nikhil Kamath They'll see it happened one day mataram, India at 50 matul jay salaam. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:16 A. R. Rahman But then, uh, why can't young India create something like that? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:37 Nikhil Kamath One of the proudest sons of our country ever.
- ▶ 1:35:15 A. R. Rahman If it deserves, and because we are putting all our hard work, and we want to create something extraordinary from India to the world, and because we, we put three years of a life in it, you want to make this the most significant, um, entity… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:00 A. R. Rahman And, uh, we don't even have a proper symphony hall in any of India. 7 times in the scene
Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 3:42 Nikhil Kamath I have an investment in a company here in India, which does electric taxis called subtler aviation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:25 Nikhil Kamath So Brett, my community is largely Indian origin entrepreneurs across the world who are looking to build something. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:58 Nikhil Kamath App out of India, because I think the incumbent players in social media have gotten boring, for the lack of a better word. 2 times in the scene
Tira, Bombay Shaving Co., Inde Wild | WTF is Fueling India’s Beauty & Skincare Revolution? | Ep. 25 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:45 Bhakti Modi She's doing very well in India.
- ▶ 3:16 Bhakti Modi So I think India is, uh, any, any, any more small and medium business in India will, you know, do all their invoicing, all their inventory on Tally, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:59 Bhakti Modi I never thought you were originally from India.
- ▶ 11:29 Shantanu Deshpande And, and what percentage of your business is in India versus outside? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:59 Shantanu Deshpande Let's say Deepa's brand, let's say Inderwild, uh, has to, uh, launch a men's business in India, let's say. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:05 unnamed speaker And I would imagine India is a bit more because the beauty industry is exploding.
- ▶ 28:11 Bhakti Modi In India particularly, all professional hair care brands have started in salons.
- ▶ 28:27 Bhakti Modi So India is very fragmented even on the salon space.
- ▶ 35:55 unnamed speaker So, Indians abroad, Indians in India, all of us, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:05 Nikhil Kamath How big is this market in India now? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:18 Nikhil Kamath India, I think. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:12 unnamed speaker Especially if the West is also like, wow, jumpy, wow, Indie Wild, then India's like, well,
- ▶ 1:09:25 unnamed speaker Your brand is going to be India's premium brand focused on a technology that changes sweat, that the sweat stink can be altered or differentiated like a odor fix technology that you put as your proprietary ingredient within your fragrances.
- ▶ 1:13:09 unnamed speaker Kannauj is this little place in, it's like the grass of India. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:50 Shantanu Deshpande We were thinking about community, and like, for example, there's a huge opportunity to build out the frag head community of India.
- ▶ 1:28:04 unnamed speaker Thanks to people like Teera, our retail has grown 500% in India, and now India is 60% and US is 40. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:40:28 Shantanu Deshpande Now the meta, so, by the way, meta, Instagram is now bigger than WhatsApp in India on daily active.
- ▶ 1:44:10 Bhakti Modi And in fact, this, a Bobby Brown area manager told me this, that, uh, India is a mini capital of the world. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:35 unnamed speaker Something sell more because sustainable, maybe in India, not as much yet, but I think again, the Gen Z values starting to become more important. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59:17 unnamed speaker And I think if you can package nostalgia and identity and India prideness again, I'm going to say that, but for a new India, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:32 Nikhil Kamath Will it work in India? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:04:04 unnamed speaker India, I think has that globally for hair. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:28:15 Bhakti Modi I moved back to, um, India and I started again working a little bit on the design side with, uh, with trends because, uh, the entire fashion and lifestyle business is in, um, Bangalore. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:39:50 unnamed speaker I'm not going to mention the name, but there's so many celebrity brands in India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:44:55 unnamed speaker My why was truly to create India's first global beauty brand and to be on the shelves of Sephora that I never saw growing up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:49:05 Bhakti Modi Um, uh, at every level we are premiumizing, uh, mainly because multiple, like in India has a lot 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:04:15 Nikhil Kamath Do we feel a lot of what we're discussing today is what Indian brands can sell outside of India. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:07:41 Shantanu Deshpande And in tier two, for example, the good part about tier two India, is you need only two Blinkit stores to serve the whole, whole city. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:12:59 Shantanu Deshpande In India? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14:52 Shantanu Deshpande There was a lot of infrastructural things happening in India at that time, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:23:13 unnamed speaker There's also Cosmoprof in India now. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:33:32 Shantanu Deshpande He was giving me examples of Amazon and Meta, and in India, I think, like. 2 times in the scene
India vs. China vs. US: Who Wins the Next Decade? | WTF is Finance | Ep 1 ft. Ruchir Sharma · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 6:51 Nikhil Kamath So you've seen India's socialism in a way, growing up. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:24 Nikhil Kamath When you look at China or Singapore today, and you compare them to India of today, what do you think is working for them that we could incorporate? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:26 Ruchir Sharma Uh, for example, the 19 sixties, Korea, India, Brazil, they all had similar per capita income, which means that they were similarly rich or poor, uh, whichever way you want to look at it. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:48 Nikhil Kamath I've heard you say earlier that there is no real social mobility in society, not just in India, but across the world. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:01 Nikhil Kamath Do you think India is an outlier there? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:06 Ruchir Sharma Whereas in India, I think it's less so, but we're somewhere in the middle.
- ▶ 32:08 Nikhil Kamath Not so much in India, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:25 Nikhil Kamath Uh, you saw the recent regulation on real money gaming in India.
- ▶ 36:45 Nikhil Kamath Uh, when we speak about regulation, if I were to come into something like crypto, blockchain, stable coins in India, I've been doing a bit of research on it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:19 Nikhil Kamath Like, let's say if the treasury bills are at four and a half percent, let's say ballpark today, I would say if they were not the reserve currency, I'm just thinking as a Japanese guy, a Chinese guy, or an Indian guy, why would I be buying…
- ▶ 47:49 Ruchir Sharma Now in India's case, the politics is very different here. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:53 Nikhil Kamath In India? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:47 Nikhil Kamath I feel the same in the world of speculation in trading in India. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:07 Ruchir Sharma But a number of my friends in India, including so-called liberals, right, you know, who we say, who were like really saying that, yeah, India needs Doge, you know, that why can't we get Doge? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:08 Ruchir Sharma And the other thing which I feel is the fact that, now, I keep saying this, that the one thing I feel very positive about India, we tend to focus, I feel, a bit more in Delhi, Bombay, on the center. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:06 Ruchir Sharma As far as India is concerned, given a per capita income, I think that it's not as if we are 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:28 Nikhil Kamath I don't know what the amount is in India, it could be 500 dollars, put at birth or something like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:51 Nikhil Kamath Who would you recommend in India? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:07 Ruchir Sharma Yeah, but I'm saying this, not just for India, like I've been to other countries, as I said, and I find that, that generally, you know, giving advice is, doesn't pay off. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:51 Ruchir Sharma Uh, you know, it's less true of, of place like, I mean, like in India, I can see that point, uh, in terms of many media organizations. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:32 Nikhil Kamath So India doesn't have a very robust lending and borrowing mechanism. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43:57 Nikhil Kamath You, you saw a bit of socialistic India, I'm guessing under Indira Gandhi. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:57:29 Nikhil Kamath Okay, so we're gonna, we're gonna run through some trends and see what can we do to improve the India number. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:06:14 Ruchir Sharma But there are enough countries in East Asia, I quoted just Vietnam for you in terms of that, even Thailand and all these countries where FDI as a share of their economy is much larger than what India is doing.
- ▶ 2:11:04 Nikhil Kamath Not against India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:13:32 Nikhil Kamath So when PM Modi, our Honorable Prime Minister, is playing hardball with him, and this new alliance of India, China, Russia. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:17:21 Nikhil Kamath Like if you look at how many users, any of these Instagram, Twitter, et cetera, have the highest user base is India. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:22:21 Ruchir Sharma Yeah, I'd say that absolutely that will become like I want India to get more capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:23:11 Nikhil Kamath Okay, so in the last decade, small cap companies in India have outperformed large cap companies, and they are more expensive today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:34:57 Nikhil Kamath Is India going the same way demographic wise?
- ▶ 2:40:30 Nikhil Kamath What can India do to make sure wage growth
- ▶ 2:42:34 Ruchir Sharma That was the case in India. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:45:04 Nikhil Kamath I spent some time thinking, should there be a stable coin to solve for the remittances coming into India? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:49:01 Ruchir Sharma In India, that may be true, but not in the US. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:54:51 Nikhil Kamath If there's a sector in India that could lead growth over the next decade, do you have any? 6 times in the scene
Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:10 Debargo "DD" Das Um, you know, I, I started, well, depending on how far back you want to go, I was, I was from India.
- ▶ 13:23 Nikhil Kamath And we end up hanging out a lot also because they have the India connection.
- ▶ 19:21 Nikunj Kothari Most of the mills are in India, so it doesn't really affect him at all.
- ▶ 35:26 Nikhil Kamath Do you think there's a use case in India for that? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:07 Debargo "DD" Das And so the abundance mindset, I think is a luxury of a few, and there is no way you can convince somebody who grows up from a, I don't know, poverty stricken family in India.
- ▶ 56:26 Nikhil Kamath India has Vipassana, which is similar. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:56 Nikhil Kamath I'm just saying Indian because we were sitting in India doing this exercise. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:33 Nikhil Kamath We rated this highly in India, even though there is such a big societal stigma about senior living. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:47:57 Nikhil Kamath When I look back at it now, a lot of these bets did play off, but the adoption to EV seems to be slowing down, and subsidies are being taken away, not just in the US, but also in countries like India and other places. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:25 Nikunj Kothari You're talking about India, right?
- ▶ 2:11:49 Nikhil Kamath So data centers, at least back home in India, have become like a real estate play almost. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:32:28 Nikhil Kamath Can I ask what is India's play in all this?
- ▶ 2:44:37 Nikhil Kamath And for them coming back to India and starting something and 7 times in the scene
From Iran to Uber CEO | Nikhil Kamath x Dara Khosrowshahi | People by WTF | Ep. 14 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:23 Nikhil Kamath Based out of India. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:58 Nikhil Kamath What's happening in India, Dara, with, I know your main competition is Ola, who's also a really good friend of mine. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:43 Nikhil Kamath So Dara, this podcast that we do is largely focused around young, wannabe entrepreneurs in India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:16 Nikhil Kamath I have Iranian friends who live in India now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:49 Dara Khosrowshahi Um, I don't know if Ticketmaster operates in India, but like, you know, they, they would sell.
- ▶ 39:00 Nikhil Kamath I'm using a lap, I'm using a couple of laptops which have India plug points, and I needed a travel adapter. 3 times in the scene