“especially in India Facebook seemed to be broken from a people graph perspective”
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“you were born in a village in India that had no paved streets no traffic lights no hospitals”
“I want to keep talking about India and how it's different and how to build products that are successful in India.”
“I've been looking to get more India based product leaders on the podcast because this podcast has a large audience in India”
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