Are founders in Bay area generally smarter then Indian founders? Why don’t we see first-of-a-kind ideas in India? Everything seems to have existed in SF years ago.
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Mahendra Lochhab
Stealth • 6m
India Needs 75 Years To Reach Just 25% Of US GDP: World Bank Report 2024
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Uttkarsh Singh
Stealth • 1y
I think we are going to see a lot faster movement in the AI revolution in India compared to the previous web and mobile revolution, where we were a little behind the rest of the world ~ Aravind Srinivas co-founder and CEO of Perplexity
My friends ESOPs were clawed back citing “commitment issues” as a reason after two goddamn years. Is this even legal in India?
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Mahendra Lochhab
Stealth • 6m
GDP COMPARISON OVER THE YEARS:
Year INDIA CHINA
1980 $186B $191B
2000 $486B $1.2T
2023 $3.17T $19.9T
Source: WORLD BANK
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Mahendra Lochhab
Stealth • 6m
The hotel was built in 1903 by Jamsetji Tata, 21 years before the Gateway of India. The hotel was the first in India to have American fans, German elevators, Turkish parts, and English butler service. The hotel's original guests were Europeans, Mahar
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Mahendra Lochhab
Stealth • 9m
In generating solar energy, India has left Japan behind and has become the third largest solar energy generating country in the world.
India was ranked 9th in generating solar energy in 2015.
Last year India generated 5.8% of its total energy from
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AKASH MS
Stealth • 23d
Crazy how a kid in rural India with just WiFi and a laptop has a similar shot at building a startup as someone in Silicon Valley.
Five years ago, I thought you had to be in a specific city to make it.
Now I'm watching teens code world-changing apps f
Three years ago I bought three books from a roadside book stall near The Great India Place mall, Noida.
Books are namely - "$100 startup", "No rules rules", and "Dotcom secrets".
Finished reading first two books one or two years ago. Everything is
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Mahendra Lochhab
Stealth • 5m
There were over 8 million weddings in India in 2023, with the Indian wedding industry worth Rs 10.5 lakh crore or $130 billion, being the second largest in the world.