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World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator
- ▶ 39:21 unnamed speaker You're imposing your will onto the environment and like people just kind of adapt naturally.
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:36 Mukund Jha And, um, before this, I was running a startup in India called Dunzo, which was a hyperlocal quick commerce company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:52 Mukund Jha So most of the team right now is in Bangalore, uh, in India office.
- ▶ 26:14 unnamed speaker I think you guys are probably the most successful AI company that sort of, it's obviously came from like, it's an Indian company, but that's got like significant presence in India. 7 times in the scene
Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:03 Harj Taggar Obviously looking at this, some of our fastest growing companies at the moment, the AI companies definitely get lots of attention, but we have companies like Dollar App in Latin, Aspora in India.
- ▶ 28:06 Harj Taggar oh, now I can, like, send money back from India to the US, like, instantly it's way cheaper, the user experience is great.
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:39 Chas Englander Um, we've just opened a small office in India.
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:34 Satya Nadella If there is one thing that I feel, to me, one of the demos I saw, which completely really blew me away, was I think in the beginning of 23, um, when I was in India, and I saw a local developer, Daisy Chain, essentially at that time, either…
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:00 Aadit Palicha I genuinely believe we've got a once in a generation opportunity to build a world-class internet company out of India.
- ▶ 0:42 Garry Tan There are up to 1.5 million orders a day across 50 cities throughout India, with over three billion dollars in GMV and growing 300% a year.
- ▶ 1:24 Aadit Palicha In the early days of grocery delivery in India, we're trying to build its supply chain backward instead of user backward or customer backward, right?
- ▶ 5:54 Aadit Palicha Uh, so it's like these small mom and pop stores that exist in India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:19 Aadit Palicha So I think when, you know, when you speak to most people, uh, in the US, they think of 10 minutes as like a convenience, uh, value proposition, but actually in India, it's very different, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:17 Aadit Palicha If you go into the ground in India, we're sort of looked at more as like a, like a hyper-local Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:55 Aadit Palicha Like if, if the economics are working, then we should actually be accelerating into the business instead of, you know, trying to cash our chips in at just a billion of GMV, we've got an opportunity to build, you know, the largest, you…
- ▶ 16:58 Aadit Palicha India, there was lots of companies that came before us. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:47 Aadit Palicha And we just realized that, like, you know, grocery in India is 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:35 Aadit Palicha That is also when we, we were, we got lucky to just keep getting, like, the right mentor at the right point of the journey, and so that's when, you know, our CDZ investors, which was Nexus in India, basically came and said, hey, you know,…
- ▶ 23:58 Aadit Palicha I genuinely believe we've got a once in a generation opportunity to build like a, a world-class internet company out of India.
- ▶ 26:59 Aadit Palicha But I think that the, the mission that at least I like to try to bring out is that guys, let's build like a truly great internet company in India and let's like kick off the internet revolution in India that should have been much bigger… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:28 Garry Tan What are some of the unique advantages and challenges you've experienced building a startup, you know, specifically in, in, in India? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:32 Aadit Palicha Ah, Indian consumer internet, and we want to, I mean, we don't want to, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:18 Aadit Palicha And we'll, we have a, a lot of that stuff that we have to do in India, right?
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:59 Aravind Srinivas I was an undergrad in India, came here to the US for doing my PhD here at Berkeley.
Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:27 Harj Taggar The full, full backstory is we funded them for a completely different, um, idea, something like, they're an Indian founding team, and the original idea was something about helping Indian high school students apply to U.S. colleges, a very,… 2 times in the scene
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 40:35 Eric Migicovsky Sounds like an Indian specific thing potentially. 4 times in the scene
Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:49 Laks Srini Um, we, we're gonna be building our data science team in India because we're doing hyperlocal search for every city. 2 times in the scene
Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:09 Adora Cheung Um, so today, Misho is probably one of the hottest startups in India, if not the hottest startups. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48 Vidit Aatrey So it's very, very common in India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:34 Vidit Aatrey So, selling unbranded categories through, like, a mall has never worked out in India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:41 Adora Cheung So what are the macro trends in your favor in India that allows you to grow so fast today? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:50 Adora Cheung And, um, a lot of people say in India, it's a, there's, it's a trust deficit market. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:12 Vidit Aatrey Like India as a country is like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:37 Vidit Aatrey No one, it's very common in India.
- ▶ 14:26 Vidit Aatrey So you can not just access supply which exists in India, but even cross-border, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:26 Vidit Aatrey So he was working there and one day he randomly calls me and saying, hey, I'm looking to join a company in Bombay because I want to come back to India and can you ref check that company for me? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:36 Vidit Aatrey And we were so inspired when we met these women, if everyone in India could start a shop like this, it will be very powerful.
- ▶ 36:21 Adora Cheung What are the, as you've grown over time through your role, what are the resources here in India that you've leveraged or elsewhere to help you, help you do well? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:38 Vidit Aatrey But in many cases, especially, I think for the next 10 years, most products that we built in India will be built for tier two, tier three audiences.
- ▶ 41:05 Adora Cheung All right, so switching topics a little bit, um, I want to talk a little bit about the Indian startup ecosystem, because it's been growing pretty rapidly recently, um, and it seems like things are starting to click, which is great. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:50 Adora Cheung Um, so, one, after Misha, what is the most exciting startup in India? 6 times in the scene
Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:43 Jarvis Johnson At a, I was in India at, like, a wedding, and a friend of mine had just started working there and was like, hey, you should, you should interview, and I was like, oh, wow, like, should I?
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:10 Craig Cannon Specifically with the Indian election coming up. 2 times in the scene
A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:43 Ooshma Garg And, um, we had someone, we have people who can't get that visa, so Gobble actually has an engineering team in India and in South Africa, and, like, we're just waiting for the visas.
Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:25 Ryan Petersen And, and nothing in the last 50 years lifted more people out of poverty than, than the opening of adoption of free market economic policies in the east, in particular in China and India and other places.
Carolynn Levy And Panel (Jon Levy, Jason Kwon) - Startup Legal Mechanics · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:24 Jon Levy If you're selling something in India, you should be in India, most likely. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:32 Jason Kwon India. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:39 Jason Kwon The Delaware parent and one percent, you know, or some other small percentage by two or one or two local, um, Indian sort of representatives, and then that subsidiary is the one that then hires employees in India. 3 times in the scene
Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
- ▶ 46:49 João Batalha It's called the Lusia dish, and it was written by, written by a poet back in the day, it's about, and it's about the Portuguese going from Portugal all the way to India. 2 times in the scene
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:36 Liz Wessel So, the story of the way up, the high level is my senior year, I'm happy to tell, like, the funny version of it, uh, from college, but my, the, the high level is my senior year, um, JJ and I worked on a project together that would help…
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:01 Vivek Ravisankar So it's going to be, uh, you know, it's going to be hard for people to comprehend, uh, the value here in the U S because we were doing it in India, but we were charging three 50 rupees, uh, Indian currency for, from the student and, uh,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:42 Vivek Ravisankar Um, so there is a big, uh, trend or that, that, that is still present in India, which is once you graduate,
- ▶ 9:15 unnamed speaker Were you in India working on Amazon? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:13 unnamed speaker Difficulty in the application because you have to educate someone about what it's like in India versus here. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:45 Vivek Ravisankar Uh, actually we were the first Indian based company to get into Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:02 Vivek Ravisankar To build out remote teams in India and other parts of the globe.
Carolynn Levy and Kirsty Nathoo - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 47:55 Kirsty Nathoo I know that we've heard, uh, some companies in India, um, aren't able to use safes.
The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:11 Avni Patel Thompson So, you know, India one a month, China, Japan, and instead of doing what we call saris and samosas or like, you know, sushi and samurai is very like stereotypical stuff.
- ▶ 38:13 Avni Patel Thompson And, uh, when I, we would go back to India, um, my grandparents' farmhouse just literally had, um, in the same farmhouse, my three uncles, their families, my grandparents, and you would go there and literally like, we wouldn't see my…
Experiments in Art and Technology with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo · Y Combinator
- ▶ 52:42 Michelle Kuo In, ah, Ahmedabad, India, in Stockholm, in Tokyo, in New York, in LA, and they were
Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 58:52 Sonal Choksi I'm an avid WhatsApp user, and, um, because I have an extended relative network in India, and I've been using WhatsApp for ages, and one of the things that I love is that there's this new form of, like, messaging native content that I…
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:22 Tikhon Bernstam Um, um, largely due to the efforts like that, and, like, YC does a really good job of taking, like, there's a great company called Razorpay that I'm an investor in, uh, that's kind of, like, Stripe for India, and
How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:26 Michael Seibel And when I see founders overextending the hustle to compensate for these core issues, you know, that's what, what often kind of frustrates me is that like, okay, you know, we don't have a technical co-founder, but man, I found some dude in…
At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:17 Craig Cannon It seems very limited, but is it all, like, in Northern Europe, or I know there's a basic income study in India at this point.
Office Hours with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:14 Kat Manalac Same for our companies in India and Nigeria.