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every year anyone Nikhil Kamath 408Ruchir Sharma 65Brian Armstrong 23Nikos Christodoulides 19Ted Sarandos 17Chamath Palihapitiya 17Sunita Narain 16Niko Bonatsos 15Martin Escobari 15Dara Khosrowshahi 15
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where United States comes up
Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?
- ▶ 29:34 Puneet Chhatwal One of the five Grandes Coles of France, which had a fifty-fifty tie-up with Cornell from the US.
- ▶ 54:15 Puneet Chhatwal It's like as much as one 800 number, call this toll free number in the US, you don't get anything since last 30 years without calling a toll free number. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:43 Siddharth Gupta And we've seen this in the examples of pretty much all developed countries, whether again, the usual suspects of a U S or China, where when the, when the demographic started to reach, when the macro economy started to reach a certain…
- ▶ 1:13:56 Puneet Chhatwal You look at Hampton Inn in, in the US, and, you know, Country Inn, Comfort Inn. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:05 Nikhil Kamath Like when I talk to my friends in the US and UK, they say it's really hard to get an Indian visa.
- ▶ 2:03:04 Nikhil Kamath In the US?
- ▶ 2:27:25 Nikhil Kamath We were in the US somewhere.
- ▶ 2:41:44 Nikhil Kamath When I'm in the US,
The Battery Everyone Uses Is The One They'd Never Build | EnerVenue x HiNa | WTF are Batteries? · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 3:27 unnamed speaker I left Germany around, uh, nearly 20 years ago, moved to Australia, worked for a mining company, then went to India, built a steel plant, uh, close to Kolkata, um, spent a lot of time in, uh, in Indonesia, uh, then came to China, studied…
- ▶ 38:03 unnamed speaker We are American company.
- ▶ 52:08 Nikhil Kamath Whenever I'm in the US, I hear people complain a lot about the water quality near a data center, the radiation is causing people to be unhealthy, all of these things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:55 unnamed speaker There is no unipolar world order anymore where America gives the drumbeat. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:40 Nikhil Kamath I see a lot of hate for AI whenever I'm in the US. 2 times in the scene
They Called The Trade Wars & China's Housing Crash | Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 4 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 0:49 Ning Zhu The US cannot always print its way out of any kind of trouble.
- ▶ 7:46 Nikhil Kamath Speaking about the US? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:24 Nikhil Kamath Say China has a tariff, say China has a trade surplus with America. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:20 Nikhil Kamath In the U.S. it's 68%.
- ▶ 20:55 Ning Zhu At the same time, even if you levy a 100% tariff on new energy vehicles, China's new energy vehicles will still be very attractive in European market or maybe even in the States.
- ▶ 23:25 Nikhil Kamath Why is American debt or American treasury, say T-bills, twenty-year long-term debt, why is it still being bought at four percent? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:08 Nikhil Kamath Where would you call American long-term debt? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:08 Ning Zhu So I think given all the things that's happening in the world, I think relatively speaking, U.S. is probably still the safest. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:43 Matthew C. Klein I think, you know, specifically in the Russia case, it's interesting, because it wasn't unilaterally the U.S., right?
- ▶ 40:46 Nikhil Kamath A lot of people, you know, whenever there's turmoil in the world, when there's a war, even if America is second degree part of the war, people actually move back into the dollar because it's the safe haven asset, which kind of is very… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:32 Nikhil Kamath I don't know if I would say this for majority, but there seems to be some kind of philosophical decoupling from the U.S. as well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:24 Matthew C. Klein And I think actually the commonality is in those places in, in Europe and the U S and in Japan and elsewhere is, um, because so many people have the majority, if not the vast majority of their wealth in housing, there is a very reasonable… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:11 Matthew C. Klein Well, no, I mean, that's what's kind of funny, is, you know, San Francisco has a reputation in the United States of being, like, one of the most left-wing places, but, uh, you know, in the past four years, San Francisco has, I mean,…
Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 5:12 Nikhil Kamath But if, uh, like you asked earlier about giving, if people live forever or for longer and they don't give, and if wage price inflation does not keep up with asset price inflation, like it does not even in America for the last 3040 years, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:09 Brian Armstrong I think it's probably, my guess is it's up a bit in the last 20 years, but we're not at, like, all-time highs for the U.S., for instance. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:01 Nikhil Kamath America has become as combative as it has, ah, with tariffs and trade overall, it, it gets even more complicated. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:27 Brian Armstrong Well, you're, you are paying a small transaction fee, so it might be about a 10th of a cent US, so that might directly cover the cost, um, of the people running the sequencers and the nodes and those kind of things. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:10 Nikhil Kamath If you were to say America has as much debt does it have, as it does, and a lot of countries across the world are paring down their exposure to American treasury because four percent is not commensurate to that level of debt. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:56 Nikhil Kamath The government, very rightly so, is disincentivized to provide an off-ramp for a stable coin that is backed by the American dollar in a way, by virtue of what happened when the US sanctioned Russia and the SWIFT. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:56 Nikhil Kamath America has 300 something million people. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:42 Brian Armstrong Well, there's more trading volume in the U S 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:14 Brian Armstrong Well, law enforcement, so if you're using a centralized exchange that does KYC, like Coinbase, in India and in America and other countries, we work with law enforcement. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:57 Brian Armstrong Well, um, yeah, so we are trying to advocate for our customers to have clear rules in America to have benefits from this new financial system, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:44 Nikhil Kamath I don't know disservice to who, but the American government is making the entire crypto world very American right now, either willingly or unwillingly. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:41 Nikhil Kamath Aryan is my twenty-one-year-old chaperone in the US. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:15 unnamed speaker My knowledge of American history, how it's performed, and previous empires falling and rising. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54:00 Brian Armstrong A lot of, some of the top ones we fly to the US to kind of meet with startup entrepreneurs, and then they fly back to India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:58:08 Brian Armstrong I do think that we have, that's a defining characteristic of Coinbase, you know, when we published the Mission First blog post about not having political activism in the workplace, or when the SEC tried to kill the industry in the U.S.,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:01:34 Brian Armstrong Like, we talked earlier about there's so many Indians using crypto now that, um, they, there's probably a policy effort like what happened in the US with Stand With Crypto.
- ▶ 2:17:17 unnamed speaker I think, I don't think like for people like us, like when I moved to the U S like seven years back and set up a bunch of like companies and stuff, like if it wasn't for Coinbase, like it wouldn't be so easy for me to do the amount in sheer…
Nikos Christodoulides on Why India Must Lead What Comes Next | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 4:26 Nikos Christodoulides And especially, you know, studying in the United States, when I decided back in, ah, when I graduated from high school, 1991, I had to go to the army for 26 months. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:47 Nikos Christodoulides But, um, ah, when I was studying in the United States, there were actually two school of thoughts, the realist school of thoughts, and the idealist school of thoughts.
- ▶ 12:55 Nikos Christodoulides Russia, US, UK, France, and China.
- ▶ 16:27 Nikos Christodoulides Because what is the reason behind the United States changing their policies?
- ▶ 17:30 Nikhil Kamath The institutions have been modeled in a manner to favor the incumbent, and the incumbent since World War II to now, to a large part, I would say, the transition from the British incumbency to American happened pre-World War II in my… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:04 Nikhil Kamath What happens in America?
- ▶ 29:11 Nikhil Kamath Do you suspect this might be causing the conflict we see today, that the cease of this trap of China challenging the incumbency of America? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:23 Nikos Christodoulides In case of a need, we have the United States that will come and support us. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:44 Nikos Christodoulides And you see a lot internally in the US, you see a lot of positive reaction on this.
- ▶ 1:05:10 Nikos Christodoulides Especially because it's different if you're the diplomat of Cyprus and if you're a diplomat of the United States. 2 times in the scene
Abundance vs Scarcity: We Built 20 Brands With 30 Strangers In 90 Days | The Foundery · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 21:57 Ronnie Screwvala But if they're looking at more Indian versus American. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:58 Ronnie Screwvala That negotiation is happening there, but it happens in the US.
- ▶ 1:14:29 unnamed speaker Like, to be in this room, I think if we break down the cohort, so many of us have come back from the US. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:34 Nikhil Kamath Here, if you build a brand, let's say you're selling, you're selling pet food, say tomorrow your Ladley pet food starts selling in America. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:21 unnamed speaker Like in the US, no one cares.
- ▶ 1:35:05 Kishore Biyani Lately, Nikhil, it's going to U.S. quite a lot here. 2 times in the scene
Two Pharma Giants Who'd Never Met | Mankind & Dr. Reddy's | WTF is Pharma? · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 17:10 G. V. Prasad I was always, ah, I never thought I'd settle in the US.
- ▶ 24:45 Nikhil Kamath How does the American, I'm just saying American, European, whatever, company decide which pharmaceutical company in India, China, whichever country do they give the contract to?
- ▶ 29:16 Nikhil Kamath When I buy a tablet in the U.S., 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:25 G. V. Prasad So in the U.S., the innovator price, if it's a hundred, post-patent expiry, if there are more than five players, the price falls to north of, the discount falls north of, north of 95%.
- ▶ 53:21 Nikhil Kamath So, a lot of my friends in the U.S. especially, are feeling very gang-ho about hospitals in India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:15 Nikhil Kamath First, okay, before we go to China, we'll go to U.S. tariff. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:03 G. V. Prasad They've overtaken everybody else except the U.S. from innovative medicines. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:24 Rajiv Juneja I mean, so I met, I mean, a number of people, I mean, say, in the quantity of say, 25 different companies, some start-ups, and in 50% of cases, their background was US. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46:49 Nikhil Kamath I think China threatened US on Red Earth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:58:57 G. V. Prasad Well, you should, when you go to the US, you know, when you go to the US, go to Mayo Clinic. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:07:03 Nikhil Kamath In the U.S., if I'm watching a TV news channel, half the ads are pharmaceutical drugs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:13:29 G. V. Prasad In US politics, now you hear a lot of… Anti-vaxxers.
- ▶ 2:21:35 Nikhil Kamath Is there any part of the value chain that is finding its way to America even now, after the patent is not there? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:40:09 G. V. Prasad They are, I mean, looking at your idea about expiry medicines, in the U.S. 3 times in the scene
Martin Escobari: Trauma, Chaos & Three Industries Worth $100B | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:18 Columbia University Student They were telling us all these collaborations they have with American companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:34 Martin Escobari I was at Harvard getting my business school degree, and I decided I wanted to go work outside the US. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:42 Martin Escobari I mean, America is freaking out about five percent inflation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:43 Martin Escobari Between the US and Brazil. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:31 Nikhil Kamath Then why is America as expensive as it is? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:34 Martin Escobari He, uh, served in the U.S. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:45 Martin Escobari Uh, we think that the e-commerce opportunity in Brazil could be bigger than the States because the retail infrastructure, much like Flipkart in India, you flip the, the, the, the, the retail infrastructure isn't there, so you can leapfrog…
- ▶ 49:53 unnamed speaker Uh, and so I wanted to find a way to come there, which is why even applying for the scholarship was motivation to come to the US.
- ▶ 53:06 Nikhil Kamath Do you suspect those new consumers will buy American products or native to their own countries?
- ▶ 59:21 Martin Escobari In software, the US, I bet on the US a million times. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:23 Nikhil Kamath Culturally in, say, Israel, for example, they like the fact that somebody tried and failed, or maybe in the U.S.
- ▶ 1:26:51 Martin Escobari This country, unusually for this scale, gets a new wave of 2 times in the scene
Howard Marks: AI, Debt vs Equity & The Next 40 Years Of Investing | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 3:33 Howard Marks I applied to Wharton as the best business school for undergraduates in America.
- ▶ 20:19 Howard Marks If America, if we programmed AI to find the elements and expect
- ▶ 23:22 Howard Marks So the second quarter of 2020 was the worst quarter in the history of the world, uh, for, for US, for GDP, uh, and then the third quarter was the best.
- ▶ 28:57 Howard Marks I think it's in middle age, ah, and, and I think, I think the US economy, if that's what you're talking about, is healthy.
- ▶ 47:57 Howard Marks The 50 supposedly best and fastest growing companies in America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:45 Howard Marks Not, you know, we have an author in America, a guy named Garrison Keillor, and he wrote a book called Lake Wobegon.
The World Bank President On Why Jobs Fix Everything | Ajay Banga x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 7:53 Nikhil Kamath If I were to say a big part of American consumption is say QSR, for example, in India, the same thing could be grocery. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:18 Nikhil Kamath Let's say the US, let's also then say because the Americans are the biggest dollar donors, World Bank in a way is, I would, I would not like to say largely an American institution, but I think America is the largest shareholder. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:58 Nikhil Kamath Yesterday I went for a walk in Central Park with a couple of American boys, like mid twenties to late twenties.
- ▶ 1:06:29 Ajay Banga The United States 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:40 Nikhil Kamath Like, I would probably buy a stock of a large IT services company in India, which is trading it 15 times versus buying the stock of a large AI company in the US today.
Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Power, Identity & Why Patience Beats Ambition | Nikhil | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 13:08 Rishi Sunak And I can't, I don't know what it was like here, but in, in, in the UK and same similar in the US and other places, everyone just watched the government press conference every evening because people couldn't leave their homes as much.
- ▶ 22:54 Akshata Murty And so I ended up going to the US 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:45 Nikhil Kamath Could never happen in the US, for example.
- ▶ 1:08:22 Akshata Murty Because unlike the US, the UK doesn't have a formal role for the spouse, right?