"I am willing to take as much time as needed between projects to find my next thing. But I always want it to be a project that, if successful, will make the rest of my career look like a footnote."
words to live by, thanks @sama
Hosting @shashanknd for a fireside chat this Thursday in Palo Alto.
Shashank founded and scaled @Practo and is now building Cent, a preventive healthcare startup in India. I am very curious to dig into how medical imaging, genetic testing and biomarkers are changing longevity
I agree that outcomes in the US are large. Hell, we have many trillion dollar companies when the whole stock market in India is a few trillion dollars.
That said, a builder is not motivated by just where the biggest outcomes are possible. Even to maximize outcome size, you have
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,
Singapore is very hazy today but still very impressive.
Low density Palo Alto to high rise, high density Singapore is such a shift, but I love the energy!