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The Battery Everyone Uses Is The One They'd Never Build | EnerVenue x HiNa | WTF are Batteries? · Nikhil Kamath Aug 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:01 unnamed speaker No, we are a Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene

Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath Jul 16, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:02:23 Brian Armstrong So, um, in Silicon Valley, you know, there was, I went to Y Combinator and they had a startup incubator there. 3 times in the scene

Martin Escobari: Trauma, Chaos & Three Industries Worth $100B | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath May 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 43:03 Nikhil Kamath From India, moved to the valley, started a company in AI, and I thought you could teach both of us together.
  • ▶ 49:35 unnamed speaker I saw Silicon Valley, the HBO show like six times.

The $11B Bet That Voice Will Replace Everything | Mati Staniszewski x Nikhil Kamath | WTF Online · Nikhil Kamath Mar 11, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 5:58 Nikhil Kamath Everyone I speak to in AI, uh, and I've interviewed a bunch of them, largely in the Valley, it's refreshing that you're in a different region.
  • ▶ 35:02 Nikhil Kamath As somebody not in the Valley, ah, my day job is a investor. 4 times in the scene

Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath Nov 5, 2025 · 4 mentions

India vs. China vs. US: Who Wins the Next Decade? | WTF is Finance | Ep 1 ft. Ruchir Sharma · Nikhil Kamath Sep 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:53 Ruchir Sharma Like everyone talks about, you know, because America's got technology, Silicon Valley, the whole tech ecosystem, how great it is, the economic dynamism and stuff.
  • ▶ 2:06:08 Ruchir Sharma Europe, I love the term that someone gave me, is like the Silicon Valley of regulation.

Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath Aug 29, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:55 Niko Bonatsos I've been in this, uh, part of the world, Silicon Valley, since 2009, when the App Store was about one year old.
  • ▶ 2:49:39 Nikunj Kothari Like for the past 50 years, Silicon Valley has done this again, and again, and again, and again.

Vinod Khosla: College Degrees Are Becoming Useless | People by WTF | Episode 12 · Nikhil Kamath Aug 2, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 6:04 Vinod Khosla And so, I came to the U.S. to do my master's, but my real goal was to get to Silicon Valley and start a company. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:35 Vinod Khosla Now, what's key is I got sparked by reading a single article about Andy Grove starting Intel in Silicon Valley, and that must have been 1970 or somewhere around then. 3 times in the scene

From Ghaziabad to Silicon Valley: Nikhil Kamath x Nikesh Arora | People by WTF | Ep. 11 · Nikhil Kamath Jun 28, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 51:07 Nikesh Arora For the last 25 years, I've been asked, you know, why is there one Silicon Valley, and why are there not many Silicon Valleys in the world? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:20 Nikesh Arora And I run into people in Surgeon Valley, especially where the debate is, oh, I'm homeschooling my kids because school is not smart enough to teach my kids.
  • ▶ 1:00:53 Nikesh Arora We live in Silicon Valley, so, you know, there was a big debate, as you may remember, maybe 12, 1418 months ago, Brian Chesky sparked it off, the founder mode, where somehow founders were more, uh, had a higher moral right to go run, build…

Nikhil Kamath x YouTube CEO, Neal Mohan | People by WTF Ep. 9 · Nikhil Kamath May 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:57 Neal Mohan Uh, and just like startups keep an industry vibrant, just like in Silicon Valley, creators do the same thing, um, when it comes to the production of content.

Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath Apr 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:18 Carl Pei The place you had to go if you wanted to become a Silicon Valley founder.

Bill Gates x Nikhil Kamath Part 2 | People by WTF | Ep.8 · Nikhil Kamath Apr 11, 2025 · 1 mention

Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath Mar 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:34:32 Aravind Srinivas Silicon Valley people have tried it, like Clubhouse, um, again, everything has lessons you can learn from.

Ep #22 | WTF are Craft Beverages? Nikhil ft. the Founders of Blue Tokai, Subko, Svami, and Mossant · Nikhil Kamath Mar 3, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 29:07 Rahul Reddy And so he was part of that, I think, like initial wave of engineers pre Valley boom 4 times in the scene

Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath Oct 11, 2024 · 2 mentions

Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath Apr 21, 2024 · 3 mentions

Ep# 13 | WTF does it take to Build Influence Today? Nikhil w/ Nuseir, Tanmay, Prajakta & Ranveer · Nikhil Kamath Nov 20, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:14:22 Nuseir Yassin What I'm trying to say is the tide makers and the fortune makers are actually humans living in Silicon Valley and in China.

Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath Sep 20, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:10 Aadit Palicha And we figured that, you know, from the Y Combinator YouTube videos and like the, the sessions that we used to see online, we realized that this is community of people in Silicon Valley that basically build for a living, right? 2 times in the scene

Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath Sep 2, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 4:05 Karthik Reddy So, I spent my winter break, my summer break, everything in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:25:32 Rajan Anandan Also like, 30%, or whatever, 25, 30% of Silicon Valley founders are basically first generation Indians.

Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath Jul 2, 2023 · 4 mentions

Ep #5 | EdTech What’s Broken, What’s Next? With Nikhil, Ronnie Screwvala , Gaurav Munjal & Jay Kotak · Nikhil Kamath Jun 11, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath May 14, 2023 · 2 mentions

Ep. #2: Secrets of Social Media Success, Mental Health & Distribution Hacks - 3 OGs Reveal All · Nikhil Kamath Apr 20, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:26:23 Umang Bedi At one point of time, it was the coolest company to work for in the Valley, right, in the heydays.
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