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Why More Features Won't Save Your Startup | Vivian Gomez

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"The government is lying to you" — Prof Santosh Mehrotra on India's jobs crisis

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India Doesn't Need Another Frontier Model | Bhavik Vasa

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The Case Against Nuclear Power | M. V. Ramana

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India's Growth Isn't Failing, the Escalator Was Pulled Up | Arjun Ramani, The Economist

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Why Software Engineering Will Never Be the Same | Indranil Tiwary, CTO at Incentiv

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The AI Arms Race Begins | Raghav Toshniwal on Sovereign AI, China, India & Frontier Models

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Ravi Handa: Should You Leave India? (FIRE, Moving Abroad & the 1% Trap)

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The Real AI Goldmine Isn't Foundation Models | Bhavik Vasa (GetVantage)

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Effective Altruism & Animal Advocacy in India - Aditya Karanam

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Subhash Choudhary | Impact of AI in development

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The Ultimate Competitive Advantage - Reclaiming Your Attention | Diganth Jagadish

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The Ethics of Eating Meat : A Philosophical Deep Dive | Parsuram Venkatesh

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The Evolution of Venture Capital in India (2006-2026) - Ranjith Menon | Chiratae Ventures

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#266 Vikram Gawande | Director of Growth Investments at Blume

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#265 Consumer Tech Playbook for India | Marmik Mankodi | AVP @BlumeVenturesIN ​

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#264 Bhanu Chopra | founder @ RateGain | India's first public SaaS company

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Alan Dsouza | Outbox Labs | Scaling to 10M$ ARR in under 13 months

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#262 Suthirth Vaidya | Product at nference (Anumana) | AI in Healthcare

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#261 Pranav Srinivasan | co-founder @ Accio Robotics

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#260 DevShaadi Launch | Anant Jain | SDE-3 , BharatPe

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Debarghya Das

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#259 Rishabh Goel | CEO @ Dodo Payments

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#258 Sasank Chilamkurthy | co-founder @ Qure.ai & JOHNAIC

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#257 Vinay Dubey | Co-founder & CMO @ Wint Wealth

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#256 R. Balki | Director of Pad Man , Shamitabh

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#253 Pawan Kumar Rai | founder @ Finshots & Ditto Insurance

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#252 Tanay Pratap | founder @ Invact ( Round 2 )

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#251 Brody Mullins | IR @ The Wall Street Journal

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#250 Ajay Shah

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#249 David Hornik | Founding Partner @ Lobby Capital

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#248 Alok Mehta | A Primer on ESOP ( Round 2 )

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#247 Pranav Pai ( Round 3 )

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#246 Peter Raymond | Geopolitics of Internet platforms

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#245 Pranav Pai | Founding Partner @ 3one4 Capital ( Round 2 )

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#244 Avanti Nagral

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#243 Zepto And Q-Commerce | An Analysis | Will Robbins

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#242 Our Lives in Their Portfolios - Why Asset Managers Own the World | Brett Christophers

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#241 Surya Mantha | Managing Partner @ Unitus Ventures

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#240 Harsha Mundhada | Principal @ Inflexor Ventures

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#239 Analysis On Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara ( 2011 )

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#238 Bhavik Mehta | Roots Ventures | Public Markets , Micro Caps And Early Stage Investments

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#237 Ravi Rajamony | A Deep Dive Into Indian SaaS

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#236 Greg Baker | Managing Partner @ Alumni Ventures

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#235 Sahil Kukreja | Early Stage Funding , Venture Debt and Capital Allocation

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#234 Nipun Gupta | Startups, Product & VC

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#233 Alok Mehta | A Primer on Fundraising

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#232 Sarah Pinto | Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis

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#231 Scott Yenor | Sex, Gender, and the Origin of the Culture Wars

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#230 Arpita Agnihotri & Saurabh Bhattacharya | Meta Analysis

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#229 Seema Chishti | Editor @ The Wire

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#228 Lee Hoffer | Illegal Drug Use & Addiction

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#227 James Lewis | The Politics of Global Cloud Competition

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#226 Andhadhun Analysis

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#225 Felix Oberholzer-Gee | Harvard Business School

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#224 Sanyam Bhutami | Kaggle Grandmaster

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#223 Stuart Armstrong | Co-founder & CTO @ Aligned AI

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#222 Robin Hanson

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#221 Apar Gupta | Founding Director @ Internet Freedom Foundation

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#220 Abhishek Asthana | Founder @ Hood & GingerMonkey

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#219 Abishek Surendran | The Geopolitics of Venture Capital

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#218 Vivek Ramachandran | An In-depth Look into The Games Industry

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#217 Moya Luckett | Celebrity Culture

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#216 Jodi Magness | The Dead Sea Scrolls

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#215 Cathryn Lavery - Sex Crimes ( Round 2 )

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#213 Megha Gupta

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#212 Osborne Saldanha | An In-Depth Look Into UPI

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#211 Joseph Sebastian | On Trust

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#210 Shruti Rajagopalan | The Rahul Gandhi Defamation Case

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#208 Cathryn Lavery | Exploring the Complexities of Peadophilia

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#207 James Miller | AI Alignment & Post AGI world

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#206 Abhilasha Jain

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#205 Keith Taylor

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#204 Bhaswat Agarwal | Co-founder & COO @ Classplus

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#203 Logan Riggs Smith | AI Safety , AGI Timelines and Dangers

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#202 Punarnavi Bhupalam

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#201 Akhil Gupta | Founder , Chief Tech & Product officer @ NoBroker

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#200 Saurabh Jain | Co-founder @ Stable Money | Ex - CEO @ Navi Mutual Fund

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#199 Aishwarya Sushmita

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#198 Darren Dochuk | America in the 1970's

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#197 Sebastian Raschka | Transformers - Deep learning Research - Open Source

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#196 Akanksha Singh

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#194 Harsh Pokharna | Co-founder & CEO @ OKCredit

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#193 Georgina Curto Rex | Application of AI for Good

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#192 Grant Mathews | Energy and Society

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#191 Scott Mainwaring | The Rise and Fall of Democracies and Dictatorships

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#190 Amitava Dutt | Contemporary India

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#189 William L. Barney | A Brief early history of the US

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#188 Gabriel Reynolds | A very brief look into Prophet Muhammad

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#187 Richard Williams | Population Dynamics

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#186 Garrett Jones | Research in IQ - Economic implications of chatGPT

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#185 Vagdevi Kumara

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#184 Tanmay Dhote | Progress in AI - Impact of ChatGPT - AI safety

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#183 Catherine Bolten | The Cult of Personality - Investigating Political Charisma

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#182 Nicole Noronha

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#181 Eric Bahn | Venture , Privilege & SVB Collapse

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#180 Pratham Prasoon | Programming , Debugging , Machine Learning & Money

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#179 Ajay Gudavarthy | Politics, Ethics and Emotions in India

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#178 Ekaterina Shelehova | Opera Singer ( Soprano Coloratura )

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#177 Kiran Manral | Author - The Reluctant Detective