01:33:53 · Akshay Chaturvedi, Anirudh A Damani
If somebody wants to become a great DJ, be like Nikhil Chinapa from the early two thousand, they should be able to do gigs in Netherlands or Australia maybe without a visa one day. So ah I believe everything else that is written in this book has ah turned out to be true over the last twenty five years. It says that over the next two decades we are moving into a world where ah ah they are going to be if you can read my T shirt. I don't know. It says building global citizens. Global citizens. [01:34:20] S0: Right? Tomorrow. Yeah. So [01:34:22] S1: we really believe and that is is my personal thesis as well. That as we move forward, the countries and cities are going to compete for the most able citizens in the world. We've already seen that happening with Silicon Valley moving towards Miami, right? Or large companies losing talented people to Singapore or Abu Dhabi or to places like these where tax systems are more efficient. So I think that's where we headed off to. Countries will have to be really competitive if they want to kind of keep their best citizens to themselves. And which is which is great, which is fantastic. And hopefully, that will eventually lead into a more borderless world. We'll have an Earth flag. And hopefully, when Elon Musk is able to colonize Mars, Leverage will be the company which is helping students go from planet Earth to planet Mars because we already have the playbook together of how to send people between continents. So now we're just gonna do it between planets.
01:34:22 · Akshay Chaturvedi, Anirudh A Damani
[01:34:22] S1: we really believe and that is is my personal thesis as well. That as we move forward, the countries and cities are going to compete for the most able citizens in the world. We've already seen that happening with Silicon Valley moving towards Miami, right? Or large companies losing talented people to Singapore or Abu Dhabi or to places like these where tax systems are more efficient. So I think that's where we headed off to. Countries will have to be really competitive if they want to kind of keep their best citizens to themselves. And which is which is great, which is fantastic. And hopefully, that will eventually lead into a more borderless world. We'll have an Earth flag. And hopefully, when Elon Musk is able to colonize Mars, Leverage will be the company which is helping students go from planet Earth to planet Mars because we already have the playbook together of how to send people between continents. So now we're just gonna do it between planets. [01:35:18] S0: Fantastic. You might find Matt Damon there. We'll make sure we enroll you, sir. Done. Thank you so much, Akshay. I mean, you know, it didn't even feel like it's been an hour and thirty six minutes. And it but I still think that we could have gone on to so many more topics and this could have been like a headlining episode for us, like three hours of how to just build a proper business. But thank you so much. It was a lot of learning. I'm truly excited to learn actually, but what's going to happen next week? I hope you, we could have some, you know, interim episode where you announce it to the
01:35:18 · Anirudh A Damani, Akshay Chaturvedi
[01:35:18] S0: Fantastic. You might find Matt Damon there. We'll make sure we enroll you, sir. Done. Thank you so much, Akshay. I mean, you know, it didn't even feel like it's been an hour and thirty six minutes. And it but I still think that we could have gone on to so many more topics and this could have been like a headlining episode for us, like three hours of how to just build a proper business. But thank you so much. It was a lot of learning. I'm truly excited to learn actually, but what's going to happen next week? I hope you, we could have some, you know, interim episode where you announce it to the [01:35:53] S1: essentially I made that comment. But I'll make sure I text you about that right after this talk gets over. Done. So you don't have to wait for the entire week. [01:36:08] S0: No, wonderful. Thank you so much. And to everybody, I think just as a takeaway, just remember, right? I networking, right? And you calling like having a meaningful connection is so important in your journey, right? As an entrepreneur, having the right set of mentors, and most importantly, updating them. Right? I think what you're doing a commendable job of is this weekly, monthly, quarterly, and, you know, half yearly kind of updates. They've helped me a lot. Right? And I write even as a VC to the ecosystem that I'm I'm a part of. Just brand... You know, to everyone. Like, this is what I'm learning and, you know,
01:36:43 · Akshay Chaturvedi
[01:36:43] S1: me out. Yeah. So, Anirudh, if if if I can just add to what you said, I think, there are two ways to it. One is about you're building a meaningful relationship and writing with somebody. The other part also is that when you write, it also gives you a chance to structure your thoughts in a better way. And I think that is also super powerful as you kind of get on the journey where you need to have absolute clarity. I've always... When somebody tells me that, hey. I wanna go out and pitch a VC or pitch an angel investor of high equity, I always tell them that boss. The only thing that you need to be seeking is clarity. If you have clarity in terms of what you're doing, if you have clarity in terms of how your everyday looks like, if clarity in terms of what the company will look like in the couple of years, I think that is all that any upcoming investor is kind of looking to understand. And I think very interestingly what you've seen, I've been reading all these VRHPs for the last month. If you look at Zomato, Nike, CarTrade, Paytm, any of these. I think you can easily correlate success to how clear they are about what the future looks like. And that gives the person who is kind of interacting with you even by way of just reading a document that you've prepared. That just gives them so much more confidence. And I think that's a skill that can kind of help you, right, from starting a company at seed stage. All they will do hopefully taking company public and interacting with lakhs and lakhs of shareholders.
01:37:58 · Anirudh A Damani, Akshay Chaturvedi
[01:37:58] S0: And, you know, and and I completely completely endorse that point. Right? I I think I think that that when you're... I find it so difficult that entrepreneurs even even find it difficult to communicate to their own investors on a monthly schedule. Like, what are they... What are you doing? Right? And like I said, if you just pull it down on a piece of paper, this is what's going on, this is where I'm stuck, this is what's doing well. Absolutely. If you just put that out once in a month, It shouldn't take you more than thirty minutes, right? Of it should. Just put it out. I, you'll be amazed the kind of, support, right? You can really activate in your network. Obviously, having your kind of network also help, but even, even if you don't, right, you could actually end up building that network. If you just communicate what you need, what you needed. So, on that point, actually, think, I think otherwise we're to get into another tangent and another hour going in. And I think we, you and I might be the only one speaking after that. So, thank you so much once again. For joining. And and I I truly hope that we have you back in a future episode. And we're discussing how 1,500 became 22,500. Right? And again, squaring that out there. And and looking forward to, you know, continuing to have you as a part of the network. Thank you so much for everything you talked about today. [01:39:12] S1: This is awesome. Thank you. [01:39:13] S0: Good night, everybody. [01:39:14] S1: Cheers. Catch you. Bye. [01:39:16] S0: Cheers. Bye.