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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q Is there innate tendency to kind of blame each other and at a very small level? No.
A So we've never had those issues because, you know, we're so comfortable with each other that we can now, he's almost like a, you know, people tease me as like my work spouse, right? Because we can complete each other's sentences. But I think the, the, when we ran out of money with that one month, I can be very open around this and say, March, March seventh, the pandemic hit. We were going to run out of cash on March 30th. Uh, we had just one month's cash left in the bank. And those are humbling moments, right? You go through a couple of these, uh, but it was for no fault of ours. I mean, the business was doing well. The revenue was up. We were, uh, just burning a little bit more in that phase of daily hunt. And now of course it's profitable, but the, that phase was hard, but I think the only decision that we were debating between ourselves is, uh, will, are we pushing it too much to the edge? Like, will this happen? And somewhere I had this innate belief. Um, in fact, we always told the story publicly that the month that we came together, we came together on a hundred million dollar term sheet, um, which went away. And I took it more personally than him, uh, literally sat on an economy seat plane around the world trying to raise our first fifteen million dollars. Uh, and that was great. And I think I had more fun in that journey, uh, when we were a five hundred million company …
AI assessment note: “we've never had those issues because, you know, we're so comfortable with each other”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.85
Q How much do drivers, just out of curiosity, get paid in Dubai?
A Um, so he was making over a lakh and a half there, and you know, here it's 20 to 30 K, right? So actually, that was, uh, unaffordable. I wished him luck, gave him a letter of recommendation, and he sent me a request on LinkedIn, all right? Very interesting insight. So, uh, I was like, hey, you know, I called him up. This is just out of curiosity. I'm like, why did you send me a request on LinkedIn? You're 26 years old. All kids are on Instagram, right? So he asked me, and this was in Hindi, saying, . Right? I said, . Right? Uh, he said, let's just believe that you earn a million dollars. And I took you to Lila Palace in a party where there were thousands of people. And all of them were 10 crores of a million dollars. Your million dollars were 10 crores. How would you feel? So I said, yeah, I feel like it. I feel like it's not my people. I'm a little out of place. I'll be a little awkward. He said, that's how I feel on Instagram. And that was an interesting insight because what he said is that platform is all about fancy food, fancy fashion, fancy holidays. It's not just, it's not even aspirational, it's unattainable. So it's intimidating.
AI assessment note: “he was making over a lakh and a half there”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.85
Q And just focusing on India for one more second. How big is the social media consuming audience in English and how big is it in Hindi?
A So, two hundred and forty million Indians can read, speak, and understand English in some format. About 202 150. About five hundred and sixty million Indians speak and communicate in Hindi. About two hundred and fifty million Indians is Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, right? And about a hundred and fifty million is Gujarati, Marathi, uh, that side, and Bangla is another hundred odd million, right? So you add this math up, it comes to about 1.2000000000, right? But if you really think about Bharat, which is the use case that we, you know, we solve for, we solve for local content. If you search for hashtag food on Instagram and hashtag food on Josh, it's chalk and cheese. Um, ours is very Desi, very Indian, very basic. Whereas that's very international, right? So I think the principles that we used is you can, one, it supports all Indian languages. Two, you never sign in. Three, we'll never personalize with your social graph. We'll build a content graph, which basically means we'll try and understand what kind of content you consume at what time of day. But then, you know, if I just keep, let's say you only consume fitness content. Let's take that as an example. If I just kept showing you fitness content, your feed's going to get really boring, right? Like how many boys and girls will you look at working out? Right. Uh, but maybe I'll show you an adjacency, right? Maybe I'…
AI assessment note: “two hundred and forty million Indians can read... five hundred and sixty million Indians speak... Hindi”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30
Q When somebody says Metaverse, what is the first picture which comes in your head?
A I think the first picture that comes, at least the way it's being sold and told is Also, you were the ex-India CEO of Meta and Insta. Yeah. So the way I look at it, Nikhil, is it's defined as something which is three dimensional. International and virtual and augmented reality and virtual reality and all of those buzzwords. But I tend to think of, and I actually differ on my opinion on the Oculus, even though Meta is a great company and everything else, right? But when you think about a device that is once so bulky to cost 400 dollars or 500 dollars, whatever it does, the new version, right? It's for Very few elite experiences, right? I, I'm, I'm going to push Apu's thought a little bit in terms of what he said. So when you're getting into a phone, imagine a world wherein your phone and your browser or an app or whatever gave you a three dimensional feel.
AI assessment note: “imagine a world wherein your phone and your browser or an app or whatever gave you a three dimensional feel”
Partly raw tape
D 2 · C 2 · P 2 · Cm 2 2.00
Q Why do you think that is? Why do we feel, why do we feel so happy when we get acknowledgement or somebody likes something that we have posted from a psychological standpoint? I think that's inherently the use case of social media today, right?
A So if you think about it, it's all designed around the human brain, right? And if you think about, uh, when we get into the details of social media, but It's built on, one, a lot of insight about you, two, a lot of insight about your likes and dislikes and your network, right? Um, even before you follow one person or friend someone or follow a source, what 99% or 90% plus at least of people on social media do is give the platform access to their phone book. Uh, and what that does is the platform now knows, uh, in the billions of people on planet Earth, who's friends with whom by making those connections, right? Now, with that naivety, uh, which is where it begins, uh, there comes the gratification, because at the end of the day, man is a social being, and, uh, what at least neuroscience has shown is that they love getting acknowledgement, right? Of course, yeah. And I'll give you a fun experiment, and this is a true story. I walked into a room at the hotel next door, um, and I met someone, uh, and we were a thousand of us, okay? So we went to the room, and, uh, we, and sat at tables, right? He's a foreigner. We are a thousand Indians, uh, from North, West, South, East, different names, different pronunciations, different accents in the way we, Frame our name. But let's, you know, what he did, which was shocking, is he stood up on stage, and everyone sat randomly, right? They ca…
AI assessment note: “at the end of the day, man is a social being”
Redirected raw tape
D 2 · C 2 · P 2 · Cm 2 2.00
Q Do you think this is a little bit counterintuitive when I say it, but do you think the negative feedback loop is so much bigger than the positive feedback loop? So if I were to be right wing, I would be showed pro left wing data to get me to try and react.
A It's a very deep question. Um, it could go either ways, but if you see what has been proven with Cambridge Analytica, it was basically this manipulation, right? They used combinations of this, uh, around that manipulation. And I am philosophically dead against any of that, right? I feel that, you know, you need to for show both sides of the story. You need to let people form their own opinions. So In another very interesting anecdote, ah, that I'll share is my driver, I think, I don't know if I said this the last time, ah, did I share this example? I don't remember this, but my driver left to Dubai, ah, because he got a job there, and I couldn't afford to pay him what he was getting there, and I'm a young kid, 26 year old.
AI assessment note: “It could go either ways, but if you see what has been proven”
