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Sunak: Personal financial independence was a strict precondition to entering politics
“Financial independence and financial security was important to me as a precondition to going into public service.”
Sunak: Retaining Indian heritage in UK politics was strictly non-negotiable
“Well, whether it was going to or not, for me, it was non-negotiable. And I wasn't going to change who I was to make that work. So even if someone had come to me and said, you need to be a bit less Indian or, you know, not talk about this or do that. I just wou…”
Staniszewski: ElevenLabs is partnering with a stealth hardware pendant startup
“We are working with now one startup that I hope will do it in a good way where we could deploy it in our next summit where everybody across, across the team could Of course, with the knowledge of the participants, take the notes, not need to worry about all th…”
ElevenLabs plans to add lip animation directly to localization workflow
“Today, if you were to localize, hopefully in the next few months, you will be able to animate lips straight away as well.”
Amodei: Anthropic will integrate Claude into existing tools instead of rebuilding full suites
“I don't think we need to build all those things. You know, it, you know, my thought would be, you know, we're gonna, it's gonna be a mixture of things we make ourselves and integrating into others, right?”
Amodei: Anthropic is partnering with most major Indian IT conglomerates
“The last time I came here, you know, I met with all the, you know, the major kind of Indian IT and just conglomerates more generally. I won't give names, but, you know, the usual ones you would think of you know, and then we're beginning to work with most or m…”
Amodei: Anthropic derives majority of revenue from API model
“The majority of our revenue still comes from the API model.”
Amodei: Anthropic India users and revenue doubled in 3.5 months
“The number of users and the number of revenue we've seen in India has doubled since I last visited in October. So that was what November, December is like three, three and a half months since I visited. It's doubled.”
Musk: He stopped playing GTA V because it requires shooting police
“I actually, I, I've only played a little bit of GTA, because I didn't like the fact that like in GTA V, you literally can't, Progress unless you kill the police. And I'm like, this doesn't work for me. I actually don't like killing the NPCs in the video games.…”
Musk: He does not buy outside stocks or manage an investment portfolio
“I don't really, you know, buy stocks, you know, so it's not like I'm not like an investor in, I don't like look for things to invest in, I just try to build things and then there happens to be stock of the company that I built but I don't think about should I …”
A. R. Rahman reveals composition slate: Ramayana, English films, and Arabic horror
“There's Ramayana, there's so many secret mountain and Couple of English ones going on, and an Arabic movie. Horror movie. Called Bab.”
Rahman: He will create content for entrepreneurs building Sphere-like venues in India
“Bring them in. We'll create the content for that. We'll create everything.”
Adcock: Figure AI Aims to Replicate All Physical Human Capabilities
“And the goal here, it figures to be able to do everything a human can in the physical world.”
Adcock: Figure 3 robot features three OLED screens and new audio system
“We have, like, in figure three, we have three screens. We have a front screen, like, an OLED. We have, like, two side screens. We can, like, I'll talk about that. We have a speaker and mic, a new speaker and mic system that's, like, really, actually really goo…”
Adcock: Figure robots do not have facial expressions or human-like features
“Our view right now is that we are trying to go out and do useful work. We're not trying to fool another human that we're a human from, like, a entertainment perspective or maybe companion perspective. So we've not designed the robot with, like, facial expressi…”
Adcock: Figure AI has over $1 billion in cash
“Like, for us, like, we have, like, we have, like, over a billion dollars of cash.”
Kamath: Passed on Minimalist investment due to high valuation expectations
“I was reviewing their business to invest, you know, and I negotiated with them so hard. Like a year before this deal, a year and a half before this deal.”
Kamath: Never Purchased From or Invested in Quick Commerce
“I've never bought all of them are my friends, but I've never bought from quick commerce. I've never invested in a quick commerce.”
Kamath: All my investment funds are entirely perpetual with no fund life
“We run all perpetual funds. No fund life.”
Khosrowshahi: Uber divested Zomato stake because it is not an investment company
“We got out not because of some deep thought as it relates to the Indian market, but my belief that We're not a holding company. We're not an investment company. I am, that is not my core competency to take Uber investors capital and invest it really well. My c…”
Khosrowshahi: Uber pitches recruits high individual impact over top tech pay
“We hire from a lot of big tech companies and we say like, come here, you're going to work your ass off. You'll probably make a little bit less money, but you're gonna like the work that you do can truly an individual engineer at Uber can have huge effect acros…”
Uber CEO: All AV partners use cameras, radar, and LiDAR combined
“All of our partners that we're working with now are using a combination of camera, radar, and lidar.”
Uber CEO: Uber collects data using Lucid vehicles in multiple cities
“We actually now have, ah, we're collecting data using Lucid cars in a bunch of, ah, cities as well.”
Arora: Over half of Palo Alto Networks' acquisitions come from Israel
“I have bought 20 companies in the last seven years about all of a sudden. For the most part, they've been startups, and I'd say more than 50% of them have been from Israel.”
Sarandos: Netflix prioritizes watch-through completion over initial plays
“The thing that we really value is when you push play, do you stay? So do you keep watching it all the way through? It's a good indicator that you like it.”
Sarandos: Netflix targets bespoke live sports spectacles over season packages
“Our version of this would be something like the NFL on Christmas Day, where we actually create a Netflix event around it, where we have back-to-back football on the, that day, we have a Beyonce concert in between, It was a real kind of a fun, like Christmas da…”
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says he votes for both political parties
“I've been, I've, Voted on both sides for a very long time, let's put it that way.”
Kamath: Accel and Nikhil Kamath recently invested in an air taxi startup
“We invested in a new company recently. I did and Axel did.”
Pei: US tariffs on China hit Nothing's earbud business by 20%
“So now the most direct way is Trump had new tariffs for manufacturing from China. So we manufacture the earbuds in China. And that's like a 20% hit on our import business plans for the US market.”
Sharma: Micromax was raising an $800M round in 2014
“At that time we were raising, what, around eight hundred million dollars round at that time.
[3076] Nikhil Kamath: This is in 2000?
[3078] Rahul Sharma: 14.
[3079] Rahul Sharma: And secondary.
[3080] Rahul Sharma: Most of it.”
Pei: Factories refused to build smartphones for Nothing when it launched
“And when we started this new company, nothing, we wanted to make phones. Nobody wanted to make phones for us.”
Gates: Childhood trauma does not explain my energy or ambition
“But, you know, I'm not somebody who had a traumatic childhood that explains my, you know, whatever energy or ambition I have. I had a great childhood.”
Gates: Other Microsoft leaders did not believe company survival was at risk
“When we would go on company retreats from Microsoft, it would bother me that the other leaders didn't think our survival was at risk. I was always coming up with, no, we have to worry about this. We have to worry about this because it was my whole life.”
Blue Tokai: 45% of sales are drinks, 40% are food
“For us, we sell 45% is beverages, 40% is food, and then 15% is the retail packets and bread.”
Reddy: Subko's revenue split is almost exactly 50/50 food and beverage
“We're almost exactly at fifty-fifty, believe it or not.”
Chitharanjan: Delivery generates 35% of Blue Tokai's revenue
“We're at 35% of the revenue is delivery.”
Bryan Johnson tracks his DNA methylation patterns weekly
“I've been measuring my methylation patterns every week for the past couple years, so more than anyone out there.”
Bryan Johnson takes NR in capsules, rejecting NAD IV infusions
“No, there's not good evidence. That's a good modality. I take it via capsule form. I take NR, yeah.”
Bryan Johnson: I still take roughly 100 supplements daily, mostly in a drink
“I took majority of those and put it into a drink. I was like, I still take basically a hundred pills a day. Just now they're in part of a drink. So it's easier to take. And so then four-year pill capsule form.”
Bryan Johnson: Ultimate goal is validation from 25th-century humans
“I want something very simple. I want the, those who exist in the 25th century, I want them to say, he got it. He got it. He got that moment right. He saw it.”
Birla: His Father Barred Him From Family Business Without CA And MBA
“He just said to me that if you're not Going to be a CE MBA. You can't come and work in our office. There's no role that I can give to you.”
Birla: Why Aditya Birla Group Passed On Buying An IPL Team
“I couldn't understand the model of the IPL for the longest. It's about capital allocation as well, right? I mean, when you have a lot of interesting opportunities before you, you've got to make choices. I'm not the sort of person, nor is my family or my son, t…”
Kamath: Nikhil Kamath Does At Most 90 Minutes Of Productive Work Daily
“I don't think I do productive work for more than, I don't know. Maybe like, 90 minutes a day, and that would be pushing it. The rest of the time is very repetitive work”
Birla: Conglomerate Enters New Businesses Only To Reach Top Three Position
“Since one of the objectives that we have very clearly marked out for ourselves when we get into a new business is that we want to be in a leadership position, which means number one, number two, At first number three, the foreseeable future”
Birla: Lack of work-life balance has been an intentional choice
“I've never had, for example, a work-life balance, but that's been by choice for various reasons, right or wrong. It's not happening by default.”
Razack: Prestige Group Is Developing 6M Sq Ft of Office in Mumbai
“And now I'm doing some few million square feet, six million square feet plus of office and a few million square feet of Residential, which I never imagined that I could, I have to pinch myself every time to remind myself, am I really doing this?”