"Microsoft Adobe alphabet IBM H Alta networks even Starbucks the CEOs of these companies were all born in India and immigrated to the us a lot of CEOs have done well because they follow the Dharma of t..."

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"Lenny Kunal thank you so much for being here and welcome to the podcast Lenny thank you so much for having me and a huge fan of everything that you do and and uh like I said before India is a huge ben..."

"curious like out of 10 yeah give a cab like a three and then Uber like a yeah like a nine yeah so every time you see that the the product efficiency Delta is greater than equal to four three things ha..."

"talk about it in many ways because it's it derived of some study around entropy and something about evolutionary biology which is the root of how I discovered and thought about Delta 4 that when does ..."

"thought experiment anyways to talk about these things first is uh in in general immigrants that get out of the country are usually have chip on the shoulder in a very different way and the struggle th..."

"they follow the Dharma of the founders quite well they have not diluted the dhma of the founders uh who have started these companies and managed to sustain that uh and a lot of CEOs have this need to ..."

"itself forever and ever wow what an answer this what I love about this is this combination of using a 2 by two and Indian mythology is like the microcosm of you which is philosophy and Tech uh and so ..."

"of times uh a lot of people argue that oh we have arranged marriages and like it's 95% arranged marriages and less than 1% divorce rate comes from this whole long-term thinking right that people are m..."

"think uh long-term societies are naturally more risk overs right uh and not all great CEOs can become great Founders for the same reason in fact I would say that it actually makes it very hard to be a..."

"brand within the cpg company kept growing because that has natural Tailwinds all he has to do is nothing in that brand and then suddenly what you see is that he or she's like managed to do well and th..."

"ultimately we're all looking for markers of social validation super interesting I want to keep talking about India and how it's different and especially what may surprise people about the market both ..."

"and if you ever come to India and do this exercise when you meet them ask them what's your income per day or income per hour nobody will be able to answer no matter what their job is they could be sta..."

"fascinating there's something else along these lines of Dows and arpo and efficiency that you talked about that I love which is this idea that focus is is a curse in Asian markets that in the US there..."

"it's a by a g name guy named chaan who built a prash which is a a sort of a place that you can have for good health and and uh it's it was built in India uh uh many many many many centuries ago uh uh ..."

"which You' have not seen before India is not used to layoffs like startup world is used to layoffs but in India if you startup to layoffs it becomes the national news and all sorts of discussions happ..."

"it but I think the few things I've learned differently is that uh uh companies that are very very good at 0 to1 will not naturally become greater 10 to 100 uh there are lots of different lessons to le..."

"the things I've learned is that profit pools of a country tell you a lot about what the country values and trying to uh copy somebody else's profit pool to your country will not be a wise idea because..."

"Lenny okay so on cred so there's a funny thing that happened I asked people on Twitter what questions to ask you on this podcast and one of the most common questions was when do you think you'll becom..."

"company so it's not surprising that people in India have this comments but it also comes from not understanding how businesses are built in Internet world where VCS are giving you the capital to kind ..."

"figuring out what this means and and the fact that this question by by the way I can tell you one thing that I have been asked this question by people on Twitter way more than my any of my investors e..."

"believe uh Envy is hyperlocal we do not envy Elon Musk for all the stuff he does because he's so far away but we we Envy our own uh uh because they were just like us not many years ago uh and therefor..."

"interesting like I love all these different these elements you're pointing out of how different building in India is that I think people in the US have no idea about and so I appreciate you getting in..."

"really trained by the extraordinary product brains or even observe them make decisions so I recently posted one thing that you know the the word operation theater comes because operating used to be a ..."

"uh envious to many people who have the opportunity to kind of work with the best of the best because many of us from India never had the luxury we had to figure out everything on our own wow how cool ..."

"demonstrated demonstrating that they are not proud of their expertise and they will demonstrate extraordinary amount of excitement when they face a problem which they have no clue how to solve uh and ..."

"or like crazy crazy scale they can bring the metabolism down the second one is by the way a lot of in ancient uh yogis have demonstrated this as well uh it comes from the same yogic practice the secon..."

"companies in the world have unfair information asymmetry and and that comes from Curiosity because you're constantly collecting dots connecting dots collecting dots connecting dots and end up creating..."

"month we go around the table and ask ourselves what are the hardest problem we solved last month and it's very hard to come up with an answer and if you do this to the product leaders like just go aro..."

"beautiful definition of predator Predators I read was the one who burns the least amount of calories to earn the most am of galleries so how do you become that and I think when I meet people who are e..."

"and then use that to connect to the next do right so I often tell people that everything that you every book you read makes your brain porous to read the next book that's the purpose of books but that..."

"back with the answers next day for example why do humans wear jewelry and why is uh uh something in a certain way and let them go into the full depth of History and find out uh or why why is it so exp..."

"I think of Elon had this interesting point that wealth is just a database where everyone's wealth I guess is just an a row in the database and here's how much everyone has and you're just transferring..."

"exactly that circles back to one of our first few questions about the chips on shoulders uh driving a lot of motivation there's this phrase chips on shoulders uh Drive chips in pockets that's interest..."

"exciting lightning round are you ready all set let's do it first question what are two or three books that you've recommended most to other people it keeps changing a lot but uh my books are usually a..."

"to be honest so I I believe in drifting and going deeper into topics so understand the topics versus trying to say uh give me this three books and I'm going to be good uh and the last one I would say ..."

"detail is a great book to learn from an audience member on Twitter actually asked a similar question along these lines if there's one book that you could read over and over and over what would that be..."

"and Nolan's craft of making the movies but uh nothing in the recent past that I feel is right up there do you have a favorite interview question that you like to ask candidates that you're interviewin..."

"questions can keep changing for example you said that what if arranged marriages were banned in India made made got capital punishment for doing arranged marriages what happens to the country how do w..."

"as possible for example okay like a lot of people in stock market use that to say how which stocks will go up and down like that's there's something that has happened in the market oh there is a war n..."

"for the brain okay just a few more questions do you have a favorite product that you've recently discovered that you really love I'm looking forward for My Vision Pro that is coming soon it's a future..."

"transient uh and we are very lucky to have this life that we have and we have to make the most out of it uh uh and and all these struggles will mean nothing uh I often tell people that wish for your l..."