Bloomberg: “On average, Mumbai residents eat out at restaurants about 3.6 times a month and spend about $10 per person each visit, according to a 2024 report by the National Restaurant Association of India.”
NYTimes: “What’s the secret formula that has made the United States the dominant superpower in the world today?…A commitment to education at every level, resulting in global leadership in science and technology…An inclination toward free markets and free trade, supported by the rule of law…Immigration and the absorption of some of the brightest minds from around the world.”
Accel 2025 Globalscape Report. “Over the past year, AI’s transformational shift has remained unstoppable: public and private markets have hit all-time highs despite geopolitical turbulence and macro uncertainty, Nvidia became the world’s first $5 trillion company, the “Super Six” added $4.9 trillion of market cap, and venture funding across the U.S., Europe and Israel increased 84% year-over-year to an expected $184 billion. While a large part of this funding has been fueled by U.S. model companies, we’re also seeing a leveling of the AI playing field at the application layer, with Europe and Israel’s AI talent pool continuing to shine. Powering this AI industrial revolution requires new infrastructure and the race for compute is now well underway.”
SaaStr: “I get why CEOs want to believe in sales magicians. It’s the same reason people buy lottery tickets. We want to believe there’s a shortcut. One perfect hire who changes everything. But I’ve never seen it work that way. Not at my portfolio companies. Not at any of the SaaS companies I’ve studied. Not even at Salesforce or Slack or any of the category creators. What I have seen work, over and over again: Founders who stay in sales longer than they want to; Companies that build real inbound demand before scaling sales; CEOs who take responsibility for making sale; Teams that hire for execution and coachability instead of “experience” and “gravitas”. Your job as CEO isn’t to find the magic. Your job is to bring in the orders and make it so your merely competent salespeople can hit quota consistently. Do that, and you won’t need magicians.”
