00:41:08 · Aditya Agarwal, Srinivas Narayanan
[00:41:08] S1: Well spoken, especially in India. You know, we will... We'll do a quick rapid fire. What are the most interesting problems or most are the problems that you are fundamentally curious about today? [00:41:20] S0: I'm extremely excited about... Interested in... And excited about how can AI make bigger outcomes in life life sciences and health care. I think it's the biggest application of this, and... But there's still... It's an extremely complicated problem. And how do we understand human biology, and how do we make a difference? [00:41:39] S1: One bad decision that you took that turned out great. [00:41:45] S0: I should have never started my second company. Okay. Viralizer. It was done with very little thought. It was more emotional decision that I wanted to just start a company, and I didn't really have a strong thesis. I sort of meandered my way around for a year. Fortunately, as a result of that, it was a minus one to zero journey for me. I ended up at Facebook, and life turned out okay. But in hindsight, you know, it's like, you know, why the why the hell did I start a company at that time? [00:42:17] S1: 100%. You'll all take the dumb luck when it comes our way, so it's amazing. You know, one thing that you believe people should build in India that a lot of people might just either find... Might view it with a bit of incredulity around it. Yeah.
00:42:17 · Aditya Agarwal, Srinivas Narayanan
[00:42:17] S1: 100%. You'll all take the dumb luck when it comes our way, so it's amazing. You know, one thing that you believe people should build in India that a lot of people might just either find... Might view it with a bit of incredulity around it. Yeah. [00:42:35] S0: I think there's some dimensions about being in India that are super interesting to me. Right? One, you have huge scale. Two, you have scarcity. Expertise is really scarce. You don't have enough teachers. You don't have enough doctors. I think that forces you to build something in a very unique and interesting way because constraints are good for innovation. Right? I deeply believe that. So if you take these constraints and build for that, I actually think there is a pretty massive opportunity, not just for India, but for the whole world as well. [00:43:04] S1: What's the information bad these days? Right? Well, it's crazy times. [00:43:08] S0: Lot of Twitter, keeping up with what's going on. I find it pretty hard to keep up, to be honest. But, honestly, the best conversations are happening there. So... You know? And I... You know, some podcasts. I read some books too, which I now have time for. Didn't have enough time for it before. Yeah. [00:43:25] S1: Got it. Which which is your favorite podcast and which is the last book that you read?
00:43:25 · Aditya Agarwal, Srinivas Narayanan
[00:43:25] S1: Got it. Which which is your favorite podcast and which is the last book that you read? [00:43:31] S0: Podcasts, I listened to a whole bunch of them. I think all the AI ones, Dwarkesh, All In. Yeah. I think those recently come to my mind. Recent book I read, I just finished The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It's a wonderful book. Yeah. Absolutely. I love that one. [00:43:47] S1: We have it on our bookshelf here. Yeah. Right. I think, yeah, if you're building high functioning teams for, like, crazy talented, a great one to read. With that, we'll bring this interesting session to a close. This has been amazing. Thanks for the pragmatic talk. And thanks for being so generous with both your time and insights. Yeah. [00:44:06] S0: Thank you for having me here. Great to be here.