> Indians just can’t deal with the fact that someone without pedigree can get somewhere in life.

I am not Indian, nor have I spent time in India, so I hope I am right in thinking that this speaks to present growing pains in Indian tech culture. I say growing pains because I think, and hope, that this valuation of pedigree over merit is coming to an end, as it is already at an end in parts of the U.S.

There are, if I may say so, a lot of bad Indian programmers. They’re bad not because they’re Indian, of course, but because they don’t really want to be programmers. It’s a career option. Engineering and business are things you study in school because they’re where money and prestige are. But studying in school and learning are entirely different things.

> The only way your son is ever going to succeed being an entrepreneur is by getting himself an MBA.

I want to believe that this, though it be the present, is not the future of Indian tech entrepreneurship.