Arora: Silicon Valley uniquely normalizes and repeatedly funds startup failure
Nikesh Arora · From Ghaziabad to Silicon Valley: Nikhil Kamath x Nikesh Arora | People by WTF | Ep. 11 · Nikhil Kamath · Jun 28, 2025 · at 52:09
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora and Nikhil Kamath discuss why Silicon Valley maintains a persistent innovation edge over other global tech hubs like India.
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“Failure is not as easily accepted anywhere in the world, but in Silicon Valley. Yeah. There are founders here who had companies fail and started second company and third company. There are founders who, you know, done something wrong, come back and started companies and the market gives them the benefit of doubt and funds them again and again and says, yes, I understand you have tremendous appetite for risk.”
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