Aravind Srinivas
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3,937 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard 7 Jul
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And it's much harder to change these things.
People are much slower, they're scared to do changes, disruption is always looked down upon.
So I think let's at least start at the incentive structure, right from the schools, right from the colleges.
Let's not reward people based on how much they know.
It's not.
And I guess one proxy different schools use is maybe if more entrepreneurs arise out of your school, you'll probably create a lot of independent thinkers because they are willing to take a first perspective towards a problem and build their own thing from scratch.
And fundamentally, that's what America has always been about is, you know, the American dream of coming here and like having your own idea and still be taken seriously by a bunch of people.
The whole idea of venture capital only exists here or like family and friends around this whole idea of just having your friends help you to bootstrap a business and then turning it into a success.
And success doesn't mean like multi-billion or 10 billion or whatever, right?
Like,
As long as it pays you enough that you don't have to work for somebody else and you can live a fulfilling life and you can just go explore your passions, that's success.
That's actually a better success than creating a company based on what other people want you to do and then hating your job for it.
Exactly.
That's why I said the smartest, the richest people are not always the ones who have the most fulfilling lives.
The most curious people have the most fulfilling lives because they have better relationships.
They're actually able to sit and look at something and be curious about it instead of being worried about what's going on.
Well, to me, like I always thought, America is the only country where you can come here and have an idea and people listen to you and encourage you to go pursue it.
The risk-seeking culture is just incredible here.
Everybody, everywhere else you can are like either explicitly or implicitly are forced to defer to authority.
OK, like go and ask the permission of this person, go and ask permission of that person or get their approval, get their insight.
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