please come to europe too :)
YC Interviews in India
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bangalore is the English name. My city is called Dublin in English and Baile Átha Cliath in our native language of Irish. As an Irishman I understand better than most the resentment towards the English but really this is not a battle worth fighting. Both names are correct in their respective languages.
Bengaluru is now the official name in the English language. Bangalore is the British Empire 's English name. It is a relic of colonization that is worth leaving behind. This battle is completely worth fighting. If Ireland officially lists Dublin as Baile Atha Cliath for addresses, the airport, and for international English references, I will use that. This is not about two different languages, but of erasure.
> Bengaluru is now the official name in the English language.
Who made it official? On what authority? The name in English is the name people use in English. Maybe Bengaluru is now the name in Indian Official English?
Until today, if I read something about Bangaluru, I wouldn't even know it's Bangalore.
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#53Good to see YC expand. I’m curious, though, if innovation ramps up in the startup space in both China and India, will there be a decrease in demand for immigration to the states? My own experience across the visa spectrum is some want to move here permanently, some want to make their stake here and return back to their home country, some want to come here and build new businesses. I don’t mean it as A discussion abou…
imho from talking to many first time founders there is already a decrease in demand/aspiration to move to the states part political climate, part living cost in sf/bay, part network becoming more global etc
Absolutely. No offence, but we wouldn't touch the states with a bargepole for all the reasons you mentioned.
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#54Interesting!
I'm a big fan of pg's essays. From my pov, it was the "golden age" of blogging^. Essays like "black swan farming," "high res-society" were fascinating, and tied abstract ideas aabout startups, investing and the world to the parcticalities of how YC works. I found it fascinating.
PG did address startup hubs, why "YC of _place_" was a problematice idea and other reasons why YC is centralized where it is.
But... PG wrote about a lot of ideas. Some might lead you to the opposite conclusion, maybe increasingly as the startup industry has grown.
Ramen profitable, for example, could be a totally different proposition in India. "High resolution" is an idea that I think at some scale needs to happen outside of SV.
Since those essays, YC has scaled. That could put new possibilities on the table. Many of the reasons startups hub are fixable with scale.
I realize this is just interviews, but I reckon that "just" is not just a just.
^Another great example was joel on software and the stack overflow podcast. You could watch Joel and Jeff's abstract ideas about (eg) "social user interface" and such be implmented in software.
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#55Is Tel Aviv next?
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#56Bengalūru, it has been 14 year since the name changed officially would appreciate if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city.
I know a lot of Indians in Mumbai - most of them still call it Bombay!
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It is a relic of colonization that is worth leaving behind. Should the name India be changed to Hindustan or Bharat as well? Instead of wasting tax payer money on changing names maybe the govt should focus on actual issues.
Europeans used the word India long before Britishers colonized India. So it's not really a good analogy. Bombay -> Mumbai is a far better one. However, I do agree that spending taxpayers' money on changing each colonial name is not worth it. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_India
> Europeans used the word India long before Britishers colonized India.
So why use a European name, shouldn't it be an "Indian" name.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It is a relic of colonization that is worth leaving behind. Should the name India be changed to Hindustan or Bharat as well? Instead of wasting tax payer money on changing names maybe the govt should focus on actual issues.
It is the prerogative of the nation and its people to choose official naming for international usage. If India, like Myanmar (formerly Burma) wanted to choose a native name as their English representation through a formal process, it is disrespectful bordering on hostile to ignore that, especially as a foreign entity like YC. Nobody is saying anyone should change any names, but once they have, it is important it is r…
> but once they have, it is important it is respected.
No I dont agree, I still call Mumbai as Bombay most of the times because that was the city I grew up in.
I think its disrespectful to the people of Bombay/Bangalore that the govt wastes money changing names instead of fixing actual issues
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
'Bangalore' vs 'Bengaluru' by people of Karnataka - the state of which Bangalore is capital of. Bangalore : https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=IN-KA&q=bangalo... Bengaluru : https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=IN-KA&q=bengalu...
please look at it for "all time" (that google has data for) Bangalore: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IN-KA&... Bengaluru: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IN-KA&... This is a post-colonial battle still being fought, and India's wish to shed its colonial shackles deserves to be respected.
> This is a post-colonial battle still being fought, and India's wish to shed its colonial shackles deserves to be respected.
Calling it a 'battle' that is being fought and 'shackles' being shed and all is a bit bombastic. And kindly do not purport to speak for all Indians.
What's next? Are you going to fight the battle to call Patna Pataliputra? Rajasthan Rajputana? How far back in history do the really real names lie?
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
'Bangalore' vs 'Bengaluru' by people of Karnataka - the state of which Bangalore is capital of. Bangalore : https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=IN-KA&q=bangalo... Bengaluru : https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=IN-KA&q=bengalu...
please look at it for "all time" (that google has data for) Bangalore: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IN-KA&... Bengaluru: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IN-KA&... This is a post-colonial battle still being fought, and India's wish to shed its colonial shackles deserves to be respected.
> and India's wish to shed its colonial shackles deserves to be respected.
They city can become respected by having a reputation of being topmost liveable city in the world, that is far more respectable instead playing silly games like changing names which waste taxpayer money.