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EVs reduce emissions even on a 100% coal-based electricity grid
“Even if it was a hundred percent coal based, it will still make sense.”
Amlani: Nobody Makes Money in the Cloud Kitchen Business
“Nobody's making money in cloud kitchen business.”
Karthik Reddy: Indian tech IPOs became overpriced direct listings without justification
“So you actually skewed the entire idea of an IPO into the equivalent of what the Americans call a direct listing, but after pumping the price up significantly, with no basis of justifying that kind of valuation.”
Mukesh Bansal: Alcohol Is As Harmful As Smoking
“I believe alcohol is as bad as smoking. It's only a matter of time before, ah, I think science already caught up. There is absolutely no dispute as far as science goes. But the mainstream media and the communication has not caught up. I think it's a matter of …”
Ronnie Screwvala: Abundant venture capital fundraising corrupts founders and businesses
“I think I've been blessed by not being spoiled with a lot of fundraising from time to time, which I think really corrupts people and corrupts minds and corrupts businesses and corrupts many other things.”
Gaurav Munjal: Ambition among Indian startup founders is disappointingly low
“I think the ambition of founders in India is very low. I think, I see some co-founders exiting after taking some minor secondary. I see, people getting satisfied very less.”
Mayya: Proprietary AI models have no defensible moat against open source
“You can, you don't need, like, there's no moat. There's no moat. Like, and I'm telling you all these open source models are just there. You can go download them anytime you want.”
Bedi: Messaging encryption is fundamentally insecure and easily bypassed
“I don't believe in messages that this conversation is encrypted. Because if you go to social, if you go to Google and say, how do I decrypt an encrypted message on platform X, you'll see like a zillion videos, which is so simple. You give me your phone, I'm go…”
Chhatwal: Replacing Indian hospitality workers with robots is socially irresponsible
“Actually, should we be doing it? My answer would be no. It's not very socially responsible. We have a young demographic population, ah, to our advantage. So either we get the robots to help people find jobs, or we should not replace human beings with robots. W…”
Magow: India's tourism product is below average against global benchmarks
“My product is, is below average right now, you know, world benchmark, like some of the places would be world class. But if I look at it, pan India, I, it is average.”
Chhatwal: Pure asset-light hotel model is not India's future
“Not really. Not in India. So we are talking about India, right? India is still a very promoter driven country and In order to qualify for prime piece of, ah, any kind of real estate and to be able to participate in those RFPs, need to find the model, and even …”
Chhatwal: India lacks globally recognised consumer brands beyond Taj
“Besides Taj, there is no, or hospitality brands maybe, there is no brand from India and consumer which is known outside of India.”
Tang: No country can beat China's cost on exported lithium-ion batteries
“For, if you beat choose lithium ion battery, once there's export from China, no one can beat the Whole cost.”
Ning Zhu: Stablecoin Adoption Is Solidifying US Dollar Dominance
“I think the introduction of a stable coin in the past, Couple of years, maybe solidifying solidifying US dollar's dominance in a way about RMB is not pushing as hard or as fast into that direction.”
Klein: There Will Always Be a Market for Crypto to Operate Outside Law
“If you take the cynical view that, that the appeal of crypto is the ability to operate outside of the law, then I feel like there's always going to be a market for that.”
Armstrong: Global collaboration to pause AI is unrealistic
“So it's hard for me to imagine a realistic scenario where the world collaborates to pause AI.”
Armstrong: Bitcoin Succeeded as Store of Value, Not Medium of Exchange
“I think it's fair to say at this point that Bitcoin has succeeded as a store of value, and I don't think it has become a medium of exchange.”
Armstrong: AI coding harnesses like Anthropic's are not defensible
“I mean, the coding harnesses to me don't feel like that defensible. You know, they're, that you could, some of them have actually been leaked on the open source. I mean, you could actually like, I think software is basically free, so you could recreate a codin…”
Armstrong: India's 30% crypto tax is among world's most punitive
“I, and I will say, yeah, the 30% tax on trading in India is quite punitive. I think that's actually one of the most punitive regimes anywhere in the world that we operate.”
Christodoulides: India should be the first new permanent UN Security Council member
“We need to expand the UN security, the permanent members of the UN Security Council. And India should be the first one to be included.”
Christodoulides: There is currently no successful model of left-wing governance
“And we don't have a successful example of, ah, of left. In order for today, I mean, to apply it today.”
Juneja: Halting Chinese intermediate supplies would spark an Indian antibiotic crisis
“A lot of antibiotics are there. In the absence of Chinese supply, we can come into a crisis.”
Prasad: China produces semaglutide far more efficiently via biologics than India can
“The Chinese are much better at biological processors, and the GLP-I they make, the semaglutide they make is from a biologic route. So they're able to scale it much, much better than Indians. Indian companies are largely in synthesis, which is an inefficient wa…”
Prasad: Pharma companies lack capabilities and struggle to attract top AI talent
“So the AI part is a big deal for us and we are not equipped to do it. Whether it's in our Salesforce management, targeting doctors, all of that can be driven much more efficiently. Through agents and things like that. Our processes, R&D processes can improve. …”
Kamath: Private investors are inflating AI valuations ahead of public dump
“I think it's happening with AI right now.”
Banga: Universal Basic Income Cannot Replace the Need for Productive Work
“Unless, you know, there's those who say that if you could create a universal basic income, somehow you would solve for this. I don't think this is about income alone. I think this is about productive use of your mind and feeling that you're a part of society i…”
Banga: Very few developed countries have enough electricity for AI needs
“I would argue there are very few developed countries that have enough electricity to do what AI would need. In the coming period.”
Kamath prefers Indian IT stocks at 15x PE over US AI stocks
“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.”
Staniszewski: Skeptical of valuations for GPU and inference providers built on NVIDIA
“It's all the, like, GPU providers that are built on top of NVIDIA that, like, help you get Effectively inference capacity. Like I'm a little bit skeptic on some evaluations there”
Palihapitiya: Friends on the autism spectrum are 'off the charts' productive
“I have a few friends with Tism, and they are all off the charts productive.”
Amodei: Uncomfortable with accidental concentration of AI power
“I've said openly, publicly, not for the first time that I'm at least somewhat uncomfortable with the amount of concentration of power that's happening here.
I would say almost overnight, almost by accident.”
Amodei: Anthropic rejects ad models to prevent manipulative, hyper-personalized AI
“This is one reason we just, you know, don't like the idea of, you know, using ads, right? You know, this is because you're not paying for the product like you're the product. And, you know, in this case, the, you know, the product then would be all, you know, …”
Harari: Evidence for an afterlife in religions is extremely meager
“Everybody wants to believe that there is something after death. You know, this is universal in almost all religions in different forms, and the evidence is so meager.”
Harari: Delegating public conversation to algorithms was humanity's biggest mistake
“Our biggest mistake is that over the last 10 years, we gave one of the most important jobs in the world to algorithms, and they did a terrible, terrible job.”
Nikhil Kamath: AI cannot beat human traders until it can model emotion
“I feel like trading is not subject to anything which is fundamentally sound. It is a lot of emotion. As long as emotion can't be modeled for, it will be tough for AI to make better calls than a human being.”
Dalio: Investors should hold 5% to 15% of their portfolios in gold
“An individual, and most investors should have between five and 15% of their portfolio in a gold or an alternative money.”
Dalio: Current financial markets are in a bubble vulnerable to popping
“So in my opinion, we're in a bubble. Okay. By various measures of it being in a bubble and people feeling very wealthy, but you have that vulnerability.”
Dalio: The post-1945 multilateral rules-based global governance order has ended
“That world order has gone from a world order that it was a multilateral world order, sort of with rules like the United Nations and the World Trade Organization and the World
A health organization, and the world, this is, you know, the world bank, and the worl…”
Dalio: US leads in advanced chips, China leads in AI applications
“The inventiveness of new chips and the most advanced chips the United States is a bit ahead, is, is ahead. And then but the application to use the chips, whatever AI there is, to be able to integrate it into life and making it for the society Most applications…”
Musk: A larger human population expands aggregate consciousness and cosmic understanding
“A larger, you know, human population would be, have increased consciousness. We're more likely to understand the answers to the nature of the universe if we have a lot more people than if we have fewer.”
Kamath: India's quick commerce total addressable market is maximum 60 million
“In India, I don't know. I don't know what the TAM is. I don't think it's much more than 50, sixty million people. If it's a large TAM. But not more.”
Sharma: Bitcoin and crypto are here to stay as mainstream assets
“I think Bitcoin is here to stay. Crypto is here to stay. This has lasted long enough. It's getting mainstream, whether it's banks or asset management firms who told you five years ago, we'll never touch this thing.”
Kamath: Illegal off-exchange 'dabba' trading is Zerodha's biggest business hindrance
“Settling amongst each other, or they're betting against a local broker who's not going to the formal exchanges. It's the biggest hindrance to our business.”
Sharma: Competitive federalism is India's greatest strength and Modi's legacy priority
“I find this competitive federalism is India's greatest strength, and the more the center can allow that, if Modi really wants to leave behind a legacy, I think that in terms of, ah, this is where I would say, you know, should be the real priority.”
Sharma: Current AI boom echoes the 1999-2000 dotcom bubble
“I think that it's undoubtedly a hugely transformative technology, but I'm very concerned that this got echoes of what we went through in nine nine, 2000.”
Sharma: Publishing in The New York Times Requires Fitting an Ideological Filter
“Like I used to write for the New York Times before this. And there it's much more ideological. If you don't have that world vision, then to pass your content through that filter is lot more difficult. That is a bigger problem, I feel.”