"If you look at like last 30 years like most of the economic gain in the world has come from software companies. If you remove all the software companies from you know NASDAQ and and S&P you'll see it'..."

">> Yeah. So uh I mean uh thanks for inviting me. I'm super excited to be here. I can't imagine like so many people coming to the school and the whole energy in India about the whole YC trip has been a..."

">> How long since you launched the current version of the product? >> Yeah, we launched about 9 months back. >> 9 months. Okay. So, keep in mind this is basically a 9-month-old company. tell us like a..."

">> Who are your users and also where are your users? Yeah. So we uh have users all across the globe in 190 countries. Uh when I started when I actually like just to give you a little bit of background..."

">> Yeah. I'm sure in Bangalore I think a lot of people would know us. uh you know uh we were pretty popular in Bangalore. We like uh you know at a peak we were one of the most loved consumer brands in..."

"bit and talk a little bit about your personal background? I learned just a couple of days ago that Emerant is actually not just your second company but your fifth startup. This guy's actually started ..."

"you scaled a massive company. Maybe you can remember some of the some of the stats about how big it got. How many? Yeah. >> Yeah. So, Dunanzo like we had almost a million riders on the ground. Uh, and..."

">> So in 2023 you've been doing this for a number of years and you left Duno. Um tell us the story of like leaving Danzo and then what what emergent like came out of >> Yeah. I think 2023 like um at o..."

"you. You'd like you just had the super intense experience. You build one of the top companies in India. You're burnt out. You're basically just like recuperating. >> Yeah. >> And in your spare time, c..."

"like pull on a thread from this because I think this is really good general advice for everyone in the room. Like what what Mukun was doing we we we have a name for this at WCOM. We call it living at ..."

">> Yeah. So I mean we actually uh you know like when we started our journey like most people were building copilots. We thought we'll build autonomous agents that could do agents was not even a word t..."

"benchmark is that's a that's like a core core part core part of the founding story here. >> Yeah. So um so one one of the things that like happened when we went to IC was that uh and this happens with..."

">> yeah it's super super impressive what you guys did beating beating that benchmark before you even really had a startup idea like for what to do around it. Um >> a recurring theme of the talks today..."

">> Where is the emerging team based and how do you think about building an AI native company that targets a global audience um here? >> Yeah, so most of the team is actually in Bangalore. Uh we have 9..."

">> Yeah, I mean I think I mean my realization after building the two companies is that like building a company for for India, a local company versus building a global company is actually exactly same ..."