Comment by mcint | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mcint | Hacker News Reader

Arguably black-bar material. Outside view, it seems like he served a tenure atop a group comparable to Disney, in breadth, scale, and market share across many industries in India, as a magnate. Notably, in the period of massive telecom rollout in India.

  Largest wholly owned and most advanced subsea fibre network, carrying around 30% of the world’s internet routes

- Brave.com's Llama, sourced from Tata sites

Note "30% of the world’s internet routes" is BGP burden to other operators, but by the same token, a sign of widely distributed control of networks.

As an investor, "first Indian to buy a stake in Xiaomi" among dozens of startup investments. "Some senior executives from Xiaomi were quoted saying that they would seek Ratan Tata’s advice on how to expand globally."

As a philanthropist, perhaps larger still in relevance to seeding, supporting, & growing the hacker community, his philanthropy on US college campuses in tech, biotech & genetics, and scholarships, serve to support more bright, hungry, creative individuals to learn in the US.

I'm finding it really tough to understand your comment across the flipflopping of formats.

Here’s a clearer and more concise version of your text:

Comment from mcint on HN:

From an external perspective, he can be viewed as a magnate who led a group comparable to Disney in terms of breadth, scale, and market share across multiple industries in India. His leadership was particularly notable during the massive telecom rollout in the country.

He oversaw the largest wholly owned and most advanced subsea fiber network, responsible for carrying around 30% of the world’s internet routes (source: Brave.com’s Llama, via Tata). While the "30% of the world’s internet routes" signifies a burden on BGP for other operators, it also highlights the distributed control of global networks.

As an investor, he was the first Indian to acquire a stake in Xiaomi, among many other startup investments. Some Xiaomi executives even noted that they sought Ratan Tata’s advice on global expansion.

As a philanthropist, his contributions are even more impactful. He has supported the hacker community, donated to US college campuses in tech, biotech, and genetics, and funded scholarships to foster talented, driven individuals who come to learn in the US.

Is this a GenAI comment responding to a GenAI comment?

OP was not easy enough to follow to be an LLM, right… right?

(OP, I mean this in the kindest of ways)

How is it more concise if it uses roughly the same amount of verbage?

This just repeats the whole comment with more words. Please don't copy-paste autogenerated text here unless it adds to the conversation somehow.

Sorry about that. It's not autogenerated beyond the quoted claim, and articles quoted at full sentence length. It was a brief exploration of making the case, intermixed with reflections relating the claims to my more direct experience, e.g. of routing table sizes when running BGP yourself.

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