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Ideas of India, Mercatus Center

2 resources from Ideas of India, Mercatus Center we point founders to, and the questions each answers.

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India Free Advanced

Why we picked it An economist presses Pai on the data behind India1, India2, India3, so you hear the assumptions get stress-tested. It is useful precisely because it does not take the framework at face value. Listen when you want to understand the limits of the segmentation before you build your own sizing on top of it.

Sajith Pai on India's Digital Divides

On Ideas of India, Mercatus Center by Shruti Rajagopalan with Sajith Pai 1 hr 30 min

  • The segmentation is a model, and models have edges
  • Income and consumption data in India are genuinely noisy
  • Interrogate your assumptions the way an economist would
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India Free Advanced

Why we picked it This episode focuses specifically on how the consuming class is shifting and what that does to sizing over time. It helps you avoid treating the 100 million-household number as static. Useful for reasoning about whether your segment is growing into your product or standing still.

Sajith Pai Unpacks the 2024 Indus Valley Report and the Changing Indian Consumer

On Ideas of India, Mercatus Center by Shruti Rajagopalan with Sajith Pai 1 hr 20 min

  • The consuming class is moving, so a point estimate ages fast
  • Premiumization and formalization change who can pay
  • Size for the segment you will have, not only the one today
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