The Corridor

In this episode of The Corridor, I sit down with Adit Jain, Co-Founder and CEO of Leena AI, to unpack one of the biggest questions facing India’s economy: will AI disrupt the IT services industry that helped power the country’s rise?Adit traces his journey from IIT Delhi to YC and building Leena AI into a fast-growing agentic IT enterprise. We talk about why India’s traditional IT arbitrage model is under pressure, how AI agents are changing the economics of back-office work, and what this means for IT services firms, GCCs, and millions of knowledge workers.We also explore the deeper questions beneath the disruption: Why doesn’t India retain more top engineering talent in research? What role should government play? What happens to workers whose jobs are automated? And if the old model is breaking, what could replace it?

In this episode of The Corridor, I sit down with Deedy Das, Partner at Menlo Ventures, to unpack what it really takes to build global AI companies across India and the US.We cover his journey from Google and Glean to venture, and his candid views on where founders should build, what India gets right (and wrong), and why talent, ambition, and culture matter more than capital.We also get into his hot takes on Sarvam, the future of work, and rising inequality.

In the second episode of The Corridor, I sit down with Adhitya Raghavan, founder of Takt (AI for Manufacturing startup) and HBS 2025, to explore what it really takes to build across the India-US corridor.We discuss the cultural, capital, and policy challenges of building in India, why many founders choose to start in the US, and what it will take to return and build at scale. We also dive into AI’s impact on jobs, manufacturing, and the future of work.

In the first episode of The Corridor, I sit down with Anant Vidur Puri, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, to explore the parallels between India’s consumer internet boom and the emerging AI wave.We discuss what drove the last technology cycle, what may be structurally different this time, and how AI could reshape consumer platforms, enterprise software, and digital public infrastructure in India.