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Artificial Intelligence will change the way how we live. In this episode, I host Prayank Swaroop, Partner at Venture Capital firm Accel, who invests in AI startups in India. We talk about how AI will have a massive impact on Agriculture, Education, Healthcare, Infrastructure Development and more and fuel India's journey towards a $10 Trillion GDP. This isn't a technical episode, it's an episode focus on the use cases and about the startups that are being built in India.&nb...

The Indian Dream

by Sahil & Siddharth · English · Business

The Indian Dream tells the stories of the profitable, long term thinker, risk-taker Entrepreneur because the country needs to be told that there's also a way to build long term value generating businesses in the era of VC funded hyper-growth engines. We wish to use these voices to showcase the…

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