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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Sure, you can get there.
You can consult everybody out there.
But if you have a thought that challenges what they believe in, this country still encourages you to go pursue it.
And so, yes, like when I came here, obviously, you know, Google was the number one company that everybody wanted to work in.
But it's also the same country where it allows you as a new person to start a new idea that challenges one of the biggest companies in this own country.
And it actually wants it.
People actually want new ideas.
And then you can consistently see that there are always going to be more and more new ideas and new companies to be created here.
And so that spirit of questioning is encouraged a lot here.
And it happens in academic research.
I started off as an academic.
Even there, a lot of ideas, when I had it and I would share it with people, you know, people actually give you very honest feedback about things, but they don't stop you from working on anything.
And that's fantastic because that's very fresh.
It's very liberating.
And that's not anywhere else.
I would say it's not... It's not in India.
It's a simplification to say it's not anywhere else, but... It's not as encouraged.
It's not as encouraged.
The incentive structures are not quite there.
And the ability to be taken seriously for some crazy ideas is why America is still at the top.
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