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20 facts from 12 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2016
In 2016 Alex Hardiman joined Meta to lead a team helping micro sellers in low-bandwidth parts of India get online and transact through social commerce.
“It was 2016, and I decided to go to Meta to lead a team where we were helping micro sellers in low bandwidth parts of India come online for the first time and transact using social commerce”
2024
Harari said he planned a sixty-day meditation retreat in India after finishing his book tour.
“I plan in December, after the book tour is over, to go sixty days for a meditation retreat in India.”
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Sridhar Ramaswamy says Snowflake aims to train one million people on AI and data products, including in India.
“Our aspiration is to train a million people on using AI and data products.”
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Nikesh Arora said about 100,000 people took the exam for roughly 2,000 places at the five engineering schools he wanted to attend in India.
“I think 100,000 people took the exam, to choose 2,000 people to go to those five schools that we wanted to go to.”
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Michael Krigsman cited BCG's report as showing 92% AI adoption in India versus 64% in the United States.
“India and folks, listen to this has India has 92 adoption compared to 64 in the US.”
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David Martin said India was among the highest countries in BCG's study for fear of AI-driven job loss.
“India was also one of the highest in terms of their fear of job loss with AI, which goes back to the leader point.”
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David Martin said Indian respondents showed high use of unapproved 'shadow IT' tools, meaning employees use AI tools on their own when not given the right ones.
“Their interest in shadow IT was also pronounced and high.”
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Pentland describes India's Citizen Stack as open, free public software generalizing the India Stack, providing identity, contracts, payments and medical information.
“They have a thing called the Citizen Stack, which is a generalization of their India stack. It's open, free, uh, public software that provides identity, uh, contracts, payments, medical information”
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Pentland says twelve countries have signed up to India's stack, 26 are considering it, and 1.4 billion customers have been signed up.
“And so they have, at the moment, uh, twelve countries cl signed up, 26 altogether, uh, that are thinking about it and be doing parts. They've signed up 1.4 billion customers to this.”
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Bloisi says Prosus's Indian e-commerce companies are profitable selling items as cheap as $3 delivered nationwide.
“We have profitable e-commerce companies that sell things for $3 and deliver that in the whole country.”
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Peron says data analysis established that the relevant blood-loss threshold in India should be 300 milliliters.
“they quickly were able to iterate that with data points and kind of creating good correlation and establish that in India, that number should be 300 milliliters.”
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Tyson says China, India, Russia and the United States have each destroyed one of their own satellites with a missile.
“Uh, China's done it, India's done it, Russia's done it, and we've done it four times.”
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Vijay Govindarajan says that almost 60% of Indians lacked access to the healthcare devices available in the US when he worked for GE Healthcare in India.
“there was almost 60% of Indians who did not have access to healthcare devices that we have in the US.”
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Govindarajan says most deaths in India come from heart attacks, which is why GE Healthcare chose to focus on EKG machines.
“Because as it turns out, the bulk of the people who die in India, they because of heart attack.”
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GE Healthcare aimed to build an EKG machine with the features of a $20,000 US machine at a price of $400 for Indian customers.
“create an EKG machine which has got the features of the 20,000 dollar EKG machine we have in the US, but at a price point Indians can afford, which is $400.”
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Part of GE Healthcare's innovation team lived in rural India for two months to study villagers' needs before designing the EKG device.
“a small portion of innovation team went and lived in rural India for two months.”
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The GE team found the EKG device had to run without mains electricity because most villagers lacked power.
“Third, it has to work not out of house electricity, because most of these villagers didn't have electricity.”
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Arthur Brooks describes the Indian theory of the ashramas, which divides life into four quarters beginning with the student phase.
“This is called the theory of the ashramas, which is a Sanskrit word, you know, for for quarters of life.”
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A crew member gave Italy's population as about 58 million and India's as about 1.5 billion.
“Italy's 58 million, India is one, 5 billion.”
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A crew member said the cow is considered sacred in Hinduism, the dominant religion in India.
“The cow is considered very sacred in Hindu religion”
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