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Deedy wont say if he will fund indian founders with visa issues. If not then this is toddler blubber
The smartest Indians continue to come to build in the US for the simple reason that the economic incentives are far far better.
Perplexity ($20B), Skild ($14B+), Baseten ($13B), Together ($8B), Glean ($8B), Modal ($5B), Rubrik ($25B), Harness ($5B), Blacksmith, Parallel, Greptile, CodeRabbit, Composio, Distyl ($2B), Resolve, Luma, Cartesia, Wispr, dMatrix, Arize and many more - all started by at least one Indian-born founder.
The US is a far easier to raise capital in with far less dilution. Most Indian companies are switching where they're domiciled to get access to the US capital markets. Every single Indian venture firm is trying very hard to invest in the US or risk not participating in the AI race (ironically, the management fees of venture firms are so high in India relatively that this is the one group that net of carry actually has incentive to be in India because they take home well north of a living wage whether or not funds perform do)
While Zomato ($35B now, $8B at IPO) might be the biggest outcome in Indian venture, Cursor ($60B), Reflection (potentially $20B+), World Labs ($8B), OpenRouter ($8B), HuggingFace ($12B) and of course the $1T+ big labs quickly make those outcomes seem small and happen on a much smaller time scale, with much higher IRR.
Engineers at these startups regularly get paid $1M/yr, and make $10M+ on exit. Even in BigTech, it is trivial to pull up levels fyi and see that if you're L6/L7+ with ~10 years of experience, you're making $1M/yr there too. And of course, we all know the slew of Indian CEOs of companies here, not to mention a huge bench of lesser known executives across the board in public and private companies.
I say all this because every time there is a slight immigration hiccup in the US, I hear the online pleas to "build in India", I struggle to understand why most engineers, academics or founders would do that net of desire to be close to family, failure to obtain visa and devout patriotism.
This is not a superiority thing or a US v India thing. The economic incentives at least for technologists to being in the US outweigh India by at least an order of magnitude.
All this is nonsense. India is middle power because they have not used their military might. One or two countries getting decimated by Indian forces will change this. Thats all.
Semantics aside, I think India is a middle power for 4 reasons:
1. Weight: Sitting at #6 in nominal GDP—comfortably in the middle tier of global power.
2. Blocs: Balancing between US–China and US–Russia.
3. Bridge: Straddling the rich North and poor South.
4. Capability: Neither too weak to depend entirely on others, nor powerful enough to do without them.
Neither. Leaving a stupid fight is a reasonable choice.
Americans can decide what kind of society they want. #hindexit
VP Vance has no family outside of Indian in laws and wife.
Yet he doesnt know emotional connotation of "indentured workers" phrase to them?
Why does it carry deep historical trauma and emotional sensitivity for people of Indian descent.
Carry yellow/orange glasses. :)
On Vande Bharat again, this time with family, on a short vacation!
Wife and daughter not too happy with the Executive Class! 🙂
Wife's complaint - where do I keep my handbag? My feet can't reach the footrest. 🙂
Daughter's complaint - When will the aunty stop her announcements and let me sleep? 🙂 #IndianRailways #VandeBharat #family #vacation
What about us Canada same cost international travel. Shorter than going same country across the coast no
