<story><title>Pay attention to the Indian startup scene</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/24/why-you-have-to-pay-attention-to-the-indian-startup-scene/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RhodoYolo</author><text>Holy crap - I forget sometimes how many people are in India. Compare those two numbers to LA&amp;#x27;s 4M people and you start to remember how small America is population wise. With the way that tech is going AKA Eyeballs&amp;#x2F;ads&amp;#x2F;consumerism equals money, the tech scene in India is going to be much bigger than the US in the future.</text></item><item><author>Jedd</author><text>&amp;gt; ... Bangalore having 8 unicorns vs Delhi&amp;#x27;s 11.&lt;p&gt;How much of that is related to government influence (the effectiveness of pushing Bangalore &amp;amp; Hydrabad to be tech centers)?&lt;p&gt;I note that Bangalore&amp;#x27;s population is 8m, while Delhi is 21m.   If it was &amp;#x27;unicorns per population&amp;#x27; then you&amp;#x27;d naively expect a ratio of 8:21, not 8:11.</text></item><item><author>umeshunni</author><text>Something interesting about the startup scene in India is how the center of gravity has shifted over the last 10 years from Bangalore &amp;#x2F; Hyderabad to New Delhi. Elad Gil&amp;#x27;s recent post mentions this: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.eladgil.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;unicorn-market-cap-industry-towns-2020.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.eladgil.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;unicorn-market-cap-industry-...&lt;/a&gt; with Bangalore having 8 unicorns vs Delhi&amp;#x27;s 11.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;While Bangalore continues to thrive, some point to bad governance locally (traffic, high rents, passive government) as one of the reasons it is not the only center. There are undoubtedly other reasons, but it is worth thinking about relative to San Francisco longer term.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thrwoe234343</author><text>Yes, but India&amp;#x27;s nominal GDP is half that of California; in fact India&amp;#x27;s GDP per-capita is lower than just about every country in ASEAN and East Asia. The entire country&amp;#x27;s GDP is similar to that of the Tokyo metropolitan area. The socio-economic indicators are actually more aligned with impoverished African nations.&lt;p&gt;These are clear indicators of state failure.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pay attention to the Indian startup scene</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/24/why-you-have-to-pay-attention-to-the-indian-startup-scene/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RhodoYolo</author><text>Holy crap - I forget sometimes how many people are in India. Compare those two numbers to LA&amp;#x27;s 4M people and you start to remember how small America is population wise. With the way that tech is going AKA Eyeballs&amp;#x2F;ads&amp;#x2F;consumerism equals money, the tech scene in India is going to be much bigger than the US in the future.</text></item><item><author>Jedd</author><text>&amp;gt; ... Bangalore having 8 unicorns vs Delhi&amp;#x27;s 11.&lt;p&gt;How much of that is related to government influence (the effectiveness of pushing Bangalore &amp;amp; Hydrabad to be tech centers)?&lt;p&gt;I note that Bangalore&amp;#x27;s population is 8m, while Delhi is 21m.   If it was &amp;#x27;unicorns per population&amp;#x27; then you&amp;#x27;d naively expect a ratio of 8:21, not 8:11.</text></item><item><author>umeshunni</author><text>Something interesting about the startup scene in India is how the center of gravity has shifted over the last 10 years from Bangalore &amp;#x2F; Hyderabad to New Delhi. Elad Gil&amp;#x27;s recent post mentions this: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.eladgil.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;unicorn-market-cap-industry-towns-2020.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.eladgil.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;unicorn-market-cap-industry-...&lt;/a&gt; with Bangalore having 8 unicorns vs Delhi&amp;#x27;s 11.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;While Bangalore continues to thrive, some point to bad governance locally (traffic, high rents, passive government) as one of the reasons it is not the only center. There are undoubtedly other reasons, but it is worth thinking about relative to San Francisco longer term.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maneesh</author><text>Out of 190+ countries, America is in 3rd place for largest in the world by population with 330MM people. [0]&lt;p&gt;And if America, overnight, produced 1 billion more people?&lt;p&gt;It would still be in 3rd place.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.worldometers.info&amp;#x2F;world-population&amp;#x2F;population-by-country&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.worldometers.info&amp;#x2F;world-population&amp;#x2F;population-by...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>