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> ... Bangalore having 8 unicorns vs Delhi's 11. How much of that is related to government influence (the effectiveness of pushing Bangalore & Hydrabad to be t

by Jedd 6y ago

> ... Bangalore having 8 unicorns vs Delhi's 11. How much of that is related to government influence (the effectiveness of pushing Bangalore & Hydrabad to be tech centers)? I note that Bangalore's population is 8m, while Delhi is 21m. If it was 'unicorns per population' then you'd naively expect a ratio of 8:21, not 8:11.

mav3rick 6y ago
Delhi has 4 really good engineering schools as well (IIT and IIIT-Delhi are world class, DCE/DTU and NSIT / NSUT have equally smart kids). In my experience they aren't going for big company jobs now but are more geared towards joining smaller firms or starting something of their own. Co-working space is also a big thing there. Transport isn't as bad as Bangalore. Hope the air is better and women's safety increases as well. The food is the best in India - my biased take :)
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  > Delhi has 4 really good engineering schools as well IIT has an engineering faculty, but is not 100% eng. That's a common misconception in the US.
  - mav3rick 6y ago
    It's predominantly known for the JEE and it's engineering program. Yes there are other programs.
RhodoYolo 6y ago
Holy crap - I forget sometimes how many people are in India. Compare those two numbers to LA's 4M people and you start to remember how small America is population wise. With the way that tech is going AKA Eyeballs/ads/consumerism equals money, the tech scene in India is going to be much bigger than the US in the future.
- paxys 6y ago
  From a global viewpoint America is also massive. India and China are just outliers. There are entire nations with smaller populations than some neighborhoods in New York or Los Angeles.
- cannaceo 6y ago
  LA is 12MM people (LA county).
  - njanirudh 6y ago
    Which is not than the population of Belgium[1] 1.https://www.google.com/search?q=population+of+Belgium&oq=population+of+Belgium&aqs=chrome..69i57.3034j0j4&client=ms-unknown&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=population+of+Belgium&oq=pop...
- maneesh 6y ago
  Out of 190+ countries, America is in 3rd place for largest in the world by population with 330MM people. [0] And if America, overnight, produced 1 billion more people? It would still be in 3rd place. [0] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...
  - redis_mlc 6y ago
    India will likely tie China in population after the current famine in China - expecting around 200 million casualties in the next year.
- thrwoe234343 6y ago
  Yes, but India's nominal GDP is half that of California; in fact India's GDP per-capita is lower than just about every country in ASEAN and East Asia. The entire country's GDP is similar to that of the Tokyo metropolitan area. The socio-economic indicators are actually more aligned with impoverished African nations. These are clear indicators of state failure.

by Jedd 6y ago

mav3rick 6y ago

Delhi has 4 really good engineering schools as well (IIT and IIIT-Delhi are world class, DCE/DTU and NSIT / NSUT have equally smart kids). In my experience they aren't going for big company jobs now but are more geared towards joining smaller firms or starting something of their own. Co-working space is also a big thing there. Transport isn't as bad as Bangalore. Hope the air is better and women's safety increases as well. The food is the best in India - my biased take :)

redis_mlc 6y ago
> Delhi has 4 really good engineering schools as well IIT has an engineering faculty, but is not 100% eng. That's a common misconception in the US.
- mav3rick 6y ago
  It's predominantly known for the JEE and it's engineering program. Yes there are other programs.

RhodoYolo 6y ago

Holy crap - I forget sometimes how many people are in India. Compare those two numbers to LA's 4M people and you start to remember how small America is population wise. With the way that tech is going AKA Eyeballs/ads/consumerism equals money, the tech scene in India is going to be much bigger than the US in the future.

paxys 6y ago
From a global viewpoint America is also massive. India and China are just outliers. There are entire nations with smaller populations than some neighborhoods in New York or Los Angeles.
cannaceo 6y ago
LA is 12MM people (LA county).
- njanirudh 6y ago
  Which is not than the population of Belgium[1] 1.https://www.google.com/search?q=population+of+Belgium&oq=population+of+Belgium&aqs=chrome..69i57.3034j0j4&client=ms-unknown&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=population+of+Belgium&oq=pop...
maneesh 6y ago
Out of 190+ countries, America is in 3rd place for largest in the world by population with 330MM people. [0] And if America, overnight, produced 1 billion more people? It would still be in 3rd place. [0] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  India will likely tie China in population after the current famine in China - expecting around 200 million casualties in the next year.
thrwoe234343 6y ago
Yes, but India's nominal GDP is half that of California; in fact India's GDP per-capita is lower than just about every country in ASEAN and East Asia. The entire country's GDP is similar to that of the Tokyo metropolitan area. The socio-economic indicators are actually more aligned with impoverished African nations. These are clear indicators of state failure.