How Bangalore is Outpacing Silicon Valley - Tech Nomad in India
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If you’ve ever read anything about the startup world in the past three decades, then you’ve heard of this place: Bangalore.
This is India’s startup heaven. It has a reputation that few other places in the world can match.
For years, Bangalore fascinated me.
Now, I’m finally here.
It’s a city of contrasts, where a promising future meets a challenging present.
Just take a look around, and you’ll see a city that has seen dramatic growth.
People come here for a better future. Of the 13 million people who live here, half are immigrants.
They come here because Bangalore offers opportunities.
You can find transformative salaries here. And, yes, sometimes, that comes at a cost.
Traffic is only one of the challenges. Like any other growing metropolis, Bangalore faces other issues.
Still, the city has flourished.
Thousands of startups have appeared in recent years, all intending to change technology here and on a global scale.
So, while Bangalore faces these challenges, they don’t slow this city down.
Being here taught me that this is much more than just startups.
In fact, Bangalore is essential for India and its people, and here’s why.
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Chennai next
Literally to tell you Ecity being the moat important part of Bengaluru is still not connected via the metro! It has been under construction since 2013. Infosys headquarters lies in Ecity😂
Do a video on Hyderabad
Love that you had Caleb with you. I watch his channel too.
What is the GDP of Bangalore again ?
Agreed, flipkart was the gear shift that accelerated Indian startups to new heights
true, it is the face of startup in india, it showed everyone that, hey we can all be there one day, its possible and not just a dream coz all of them saw flipkart go there with there own eyes.
As someone who's starting his career by joining a fast-growing AI startup in its Koramangala office in 3 months, it feels nice to hear about the city and neighbourhood I'm about to call home for the next few years
Good luck with your new job! 🥳
Hey , Im just about to graduate from 12th grade and have been following the rapid growth of AI. wanted to know if you were in my shoes in 2023 what would be your roadmap to working/starting an AI startup/company.
@@zengod6148 Buddy I've had a very wild journey in college. How I got to this point was doing what I liked and following my passion. I'd suggest you to become THE Best in whatever you choose to do and you'll automatically do well 🙂
I worked and lived in the software industry in Koramangala 18 years ago. Since then I have worked in the Bay area and other parts of the world. But Bangalore is Bangalore, closer to my heart. All the best
@@AayushKrishnanbro in which tech AI start up u r working? can u tell what skillsets are required
Everytime we Indians keep commenting that this is not how India looks but finally this time i can that yes this is how India really looks and that's the potential we have. And with that i mean yes we have poverty we have pollution but not as bad as what west portrays us.
We need lots of improvement. The west portrayed the bad to encourage us to improve. Hard love
Hahaha
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw Well when west talks about China they show Beijing, when they talk about US they show New York and California that too the most developed part of the city right? Then why when it comes to India they have to show Dharavi and footages made in 2002? and When they have a developed locations 5 kms away? Ain't it portraying it as poor? Why every news in west talks about rapes happening here? Why they don't talk about the start-up boom which is happening here? Why don't they talk about how India is breaking records everyday in terms of Infrastructure and roads?? Why don't they talk about how India brought 200m people out of poverty within a decade? But they do talk about people who got unemployed during Covid which honestly was expected by no-one?? And at last why don't they showcase those neighborhood of New-York where Gangs operate openly and people live on roads? and slums of China like they don't have poor people and poverty? Stop tryna manipulate people with you bullsh*t. In the same comment i've accepted that we do have poverty, but if you want to create a positive view for a nation then you'll have to showcase the positives as well which clearly western media doesn't do and it ofcourse is creating a agenda and portraying a nation in a certain way. They do the same with other nations in South America. You are just another frustated guy who for some reason feels good while throwing sh*t on thier own nation and look up for Westerners. Sri-Lanka is litrally going through a crisis where people are litrally unable to eat and he's saying to learn from them. Jokes SMH
@@vinamrajha China already eliminated extreme poverty and its normal poverty count is very low, India is nowhere comparable, no part of India is even comparable to China.
I love how this video completely ignores Shenzhen which is a tech hub that is far more impressive than Bangalore, it instead compares Bangalore to Beijing and Shanghai which of course it would outpace since the latter two aren't even tech hubs.
Caste system is disgusting- even in the west it’s gross to see those who inherit their wealth subjugate and take advantage of those who weren’t lucky to be born with money
As a person who's lived in Bengaluru for 12 years at this point, the changes are clearly visible. Thank you for choosing to cover this topic.
Changes in a bad way for locals
I am watching this while stuck in Bangalore traffic.I hope one day, startup will solve traffic problems . Thanks for making my ride back home entertaining with your another informative video.
Glad we could help entertain you during your drive. Drive safely 🚗
Same here 😊 Just watched this video stuck in Bengaluru traffic while traveling back home in office cab.
should make flyovers like gujarat, 140 flyovers in surat & ahemdabad ,this is the only solution for traffic .
I believe the upgraded in the metro planned in Karnataka should improve it. I hope so.
Can only be solved by more investment on trasit oriented development
Another amazing video 👏
I can't even begin to think how much time and effort it must take to put a video like this together - and then on the side of running a startup!
You guys keep impressing 🔥
Thank you so much Simon! Its a lot of work but if the people are happy we are gonna keep doing it 🚀
Texas Instruments was the first technology product company which setup its office in Bengaluru in 1984-85. Unfortunately, Infosys , though was the first technology services company, was always known as a services company and only created the tradition of going to US, live like a miser and return and show off the dollars. The real technology startup boom was started by Flipkart and this followed the list of innovative startups, which was actually solving real life problems and gave the real reason to engineers that they can get the technological edge as well as good salary even in India.
TCS was always bigger than Infosys, but the propaganda machine of Infosys always made everyone think Infosys was bigger and better.
As someone who grew up in Bengaluru, this is so amazing. I live in the US. Whenever I visit Bengaluru, there are so many changes and positive outlook. What I love is the public transportation - buses and metro trains! The old pictures of Cubbon park, Lal Bagh, MG Road, Vidhana Soudha is very nostalgic. I see them in old movies. It was a chill city. One thing Bengaluru needs to focus on is rain water conservation and management. Lots of lakes were closed down with sand and mud to build this infrastructure. That's why whenever there is heavy rain, there are floods. Many environmentalists have predicted that In the future there will drinking water shortage in this great city.
In the end tou ledt Bangalore cause you know.deep.inaide yourself that it's a shweethole
@@bigdaddy7729 , now, US states like Oregon, California and Michigan are becoming Shitholes. With random mass shootings all over, Deep down everyone living in America knows that the chances of getting killed in the US by a bullet is higher than getting killed by Terrorist attack.
First learn spellings properly, later comment about a city..🤣🤣🤣
I agree. Drinking water shortage is going to be a big problem in future. Not just for Bangalore but for most major Indian cities.
I think what sets Bengaluru apart is the fact that the growth is not fuelled by a single specific industry. True the IT boom gave it the lift off, but currently, Bengaluru and adjoining areas are a major engineering and manufacturing hub. Financial services industry that Bengaluru offers is paralleled by very few cities in the world. Name a major bank in the world, possibility is that they have a presence in Bengaluru. Economic growth outpacing Infrastructure development continues to be a major problem. But the true strength of the city is that it has hedged it's bets well and diversified over the last decade or so in terms of the different industries it caters to.
This shows how much you loved and passionate about Bengaluru. The city is having all the potential to grow and became next silicon Valley only with better infrastructure.
Proud to be a Bengalurian....but we need to have a good Infra only then it can become Silicon Valley of India
True
Start demanding better and efficient infra from your MLAs or MPs this generation needs to demand to fulfill our needs from the government unlike the past generations.
Literally Bengaluru was a small tier 2 city in 90s, people used to think only big 4 Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai as tier 1, where they can go for better lives. In last 10 years Bengaluru has been the dream city for everyone in whole India. Every single day People moving here. There was Hyderabad who was competing in early days, but now Bengaluru is dream destination for everyone. Still in terms of infrastructure this city has probably the worst of all. It will get better, as it gets highest FDI ad compared to any city.
In the next decade, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Pune might make the big 6!
India sure could use some big cities in the further North and the East as well but that seems like a far fetched idea for now.
@@SarthakSabharwalMusic some candidates after these top 6/7 will be Indore, Lucknow, Jaipur, Ranchi. I know it will take time but we'll get there in a decade or 2
@@SarthakSabharwalMusic how can you possibly just leave out chennai , Chennai isn't so far behind in IT exports too. Very hurt by this comment
@@sidharthsundaramramachandr5384 Hey, man. Didn't mean to hurt you. Chennai still is one of the biggest cities in India due to its coastal proximity, industrialisation and technological advancement. But it's not growing as fast as some other big cities. Also, I think Chennai is relativity less immigration friendly, compared to the ones I've mentioned.
We've already seen in the last 75 years how Delhi and Mumbai's economies blew up because of massive levels of immigration. Pune, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad are way more immigration friendly rn. Chennai is kinda like Kolkata in this regards. Kolkata was one of the Big 4 but is now lagging behind and continues to do so.
And the two factors I consider for immigration friendliness are - how welcoming the city, its education and business ecosystem are; and how willing immigrants are to choose the over major cities as their primary destination. Chennai's anti-Hindi hate and the extremely rapid development of cities like Bangalore and Pune make Chennai slip up in this consideration.
Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Hyderabad are rising like Delhi and Mumbai did. If Chennai, while bigger than them, can still be easily overtaken like Kolkata, unless it shows rapid growth in GDP and immigration again to rival what I called the New Big 6.
@@SarthakSabharwalMusic Do you have any statistical data about the growth rate of chennai, its migrant inflow rate, ect other than just spitting out the common negative perception people have about the city? Chennai has been known for being unfriendly for migrants for many decades but still its one of the most important city of india atleast for now. Is chennai really being unfriendly for migrants or is it just people from particular region of india feel that way because locals in Chennai dont speak hindi?
I have been living in Bengaluru for 12 years now. It's a beautiful city with great people. Sadly there is a lot of corruption that's spoiling the city more and more.
Democracy will fix that corruption in no time.
Did u learn kannada
@@chethan2668 what diff does it makes if he learnt it or not.
@@chethan2668 Bangalore is multicultural
India is one of the most corrupted country in the world.. .. Every where is corruption in India.. Indian framers are suffering. One day India will be corruption is free.
Very Informative and a well made video! Thank you.
I smile...as the US and the UK send back visa professionals, these very folks will use their gained knowledge and expertise and create strong competition. By the time Silicon Valley figures it out it will be too hard to catch up, unless they start doing mergers or buy-outs.
WOW I just saw my college UVCE in your video. You have really drilled deep into details bro! Seriously the best research score of Bengaluru should be given to you!! ❤ Well done!
How well this has been interpreted is remarkable this is good content ❤, thank you for your veiw
I lived in Koramangala in the late 90s. It was a serene place. Autos weren't too keen to go there. How different it is today!
Time flies 😞🙌🏼
Thanks for making a constant effort and saying "BENGALURU"
I was born and still living in Bengaluru from 19 years, and i loved your video about my city.
Namma Bengaluru, Namma Pride!!
How did you added those lighting effects ? video is total DOPE
it will be interesting if more such analytical videos are presented, sets a ball rolling for discussions and also helps you figure out where should you go in order to grow, learn, build a career once you step out of school ( ps a student talking here )
The best use of youtube i came across 👍👍
Bengaluru had a great start even before independence because of the Wodeyars. The Mysuru royal family was scientific oriented and did everything to create educational and scientific institutions and promote talent to make the entire state developed. The second reason we're the kannadigas itself. They have always been peaceful and education oriented and liberal at their core. These two reasons alone has made Bengaluru the behemoth it is.
I work in the blockchain space, used to live and work in silicon valley and finally visiting Bengaluru for the first time this week. Super excited to travel and work with the talented students and developers in this area.
I'm kenyan and learning a lot from slidebean Caya's videos.
Huge efforts spent in putting together the content, that's lovely impressive.
Awesome work!
I'm an Indian From Northern Part (Lucknow) now a proud bengalurean !
I was brought up did my schooling and Medical Graduation from Bangalore .. Now, a Proud Bengalurean !!!
Best Weather ☁️, Discipline & Career Opportunities !
Except Traffic and Racism , rest everything is good !
You forgot to add corruption 🙂
50% of Bangalore is immigrants so who is racist lol
Thats why always immigrant is immagrant.try to be loyal to kannadigas who gave you opportunity to pursue your dreams.just bimaru things
My parents, being inhabitants of koramangala for 40+ years have been lucky to witness the change. Im so fortunate to now join this boom as a techie.
Me living in the heat of this city, didn't know soo much information hat was shared in this video. thank you
I lived here for a year. I used to herd cows. Selling milk was very profitable. With that money I bought half of Bangalore. Today all startups are my tenant.
Great job. The production quantity is very high and you're a really good presenter
Awesome presentation and good research.
Great reporting & storytelling!
This is my home, Bengaluru, my hometown. i work at Microsoft now, i have seen this change and also been part of this change. Infosys was my first job as well, but i am relatively new and my career co-incided with startup boom.
Bengaluru also has the oldest and biggest Indian research institute, called Indian Institute of Science (formerly known as Tata Institute).
Thank you for this video 🎉
Great video, I have never been there but now I do
Nice to see Caleb there
There is a small catch with this IT BOOM Bengaluru lost so many trees, lakes and also the weather is changing to what it was before the IT boom
before the Bangalore was soo clean, I mean 2000. Nobody was spiting or throwing the trash on the ground. now its messed up completly
Yup I was 12 when infosys was a small start up company just opening a branch in Singapore. Now look at it wow
As native Bengalurian who has lived in Bengaluru in 60s and 70s it hurts to see my beloved city in current condition. There is no doubt the opportunities are immeasurable but has come at a terrible cost of killing the heart and soul of the city. Believe me when I say this. The time it used to take in early 1970s to cover the distance from N.R.Colony to ITI colony near K.R.Puram railway station was around 35 minutes. Today the same distance takes 2+ hours. Our politicians with 0 foresight allowed unplanned and uncontrolled growth of the city.
What I'm wondering as someone living in Kormangala is how'd i miss you filming on the street. I recognise most of your shot locations.
This channel should have more views
Great Vlog on Koramangala. Look forward to a production on actual Bengaluru!
Great video! Amazing to see you go all the way to Bangalore and record it in action. What made you go so far? :D
Welcome to India. Thanks for covering Bangalore.
Many of the old photos and videos you showed weren't of Bengaluru.Bengaluru was more beautiful then than now.I have seen it from 45 years which is my age now .
The city culture is vibrant with full of smart and highly enthusiastic minds. The major bottel neck however is the city infrastructure, which is not planned for the most part. The city civic infrastructure is unable handle the high population influx, and my God the traffic. You can easily validate an idea, build the product and talk to investors while you are still stuck in the traffic.
Someone even commented that they watched this video while in traffic today
@@slidebean Koramangala is no district, it's just the name of the place.... Bangalore is the district or like Koramangala is in Bangalore district.
Great information about Bangalore. Proud to be a resident but like you said.....traffic is terrible. I live abroad but ....
I'm a student who is studying in Bengaluru and this video gives me chills
Great video but it misses out the key issues that can drag down Bangalore - waste water treatment, rainwater flooding, unplanned real estate and the eternal traffic congestion! Startups need to join hands with govt agencies and NGOs to prevent disasters in future
Why is governmental failures in urban planning and city design relevant to a topic about software startups?
@@Yuvraj. Bangalore is clearly losing its edge over other cities so that's exactly why these failures matter.
@@Yuvraj. Move aside Bangalore, Pune Chennai and Hyderabad have arrived
@@Yuvraj. Because this affects those of us managing offshore offices in Bengaluru, and it affects our employees. Working in the office is better for our business, but when employees have a long commute, they want to work permanently from home. It's a conflict. It's in the interest of business to have a well-planned infrastructure in a city.
@@Yuvraj. Becase planning affects the life of employees in Bangalore.
Love your videos, hope you make a video on Tata
Hi, if you're still in Bangalore, drop in to Nerlu Cafe. I owe you a coffee at the very least for all your lovely content.
So nice of you! Unfortunately we did film this a while ago and Caya is no longer in India
UA-cam didn't recommend this to me despite me really enjoying your video before. But this video was better than your first video on Bangalore. GG ! Never knew this side of India !
The background video at the shot "kormangala" is actually "hsr layout" :P
Another great overview of the history of India's tech industry. BTW, _kilometres_ rhymes with _nanometres_ or _metres,_ not with "thermometers' or "barometers" (since it's a unit of measurement, not a measuring device). Also, you mean _effect_ or _influence,_ not "impact" (crash force).
Studying C.S at Electronic city, interning at Koramangala, wanting to do a startup...this video reads my life
I have to check this place out next year
Love your videos Caya!
Love the videos Waiting for you to visit KENYA 🇰🇪 and East Africa for our Slidebean planet
Kigali!
We will be attempting this style video on Kenya as to which you can hope to see come February 2023.
Also, lot of private engineering colleges came up in Bangalore. So, people went for education and then past graduation, worked there. Some of my friends are there last 23 years! They are Bangalored!
Truly Bangalore has lost its original charm - from a beautiful Garden City & Civilized Society - to random Urbanization, pollution and Population explosion. It is nowhere close to the City of charm it once used to be.
This is a amazing video
Hope it’s been fun Caya 😊.
next level video
every video is has something new
Not sure if the growth of Bangalore is in right path. Surely and definitely Bangalore is growing big and its a great thing for people for Karnataka and more and more companies coming in, more job creation will help the people of Karnataka and even neighbouhood, but hope Bangalore doesn't slowly turn to a disastrous city with respect to crowd, traffic, concrete infrastructure, tower buildings finally just becoming a replica of either Mumbai or Delhi or any other worst metros of the world. Bangalore had the advantage of greenery and nature and hope it is with nature preservation or more so with atleast more than 50% nature and greenery that Bangalore gets development and ideally if Bangalore has to be a city cut above other cities in the world, it has to develop uniformly and spreaded and not that all concentration of commercial businesses and jobs are on one area and then the cost of that area goes sky rocket with only concrete buildings around. Bangalore could have easily become one of the best in the world, in a la Singapore model with more greenery and nature around, but alas the Govt., corporation and even people of Bangalore being least bothered about preserving their rich city have spoiled the beauty of Bangalore which it was once. Focus on water conservation and robust drainage, roads, other modes of transport, open spaces for garden, playground etc. are so very important and utmost necessity if Bangalore has to become a good developed city, else just calling it a Silicon Valley is of no use and utter worthless.
I work for Adobe here in Bangalore and I'm in love with the city and the rental part mentioned is upto an extend the truth. If you want something near to your office, it might be very expensive. I live in a gated colony in a 3BHK and i pay 45K(INR) per month but it's economical for me as it's very close to my office and takes min commute time
How much % of your salary is your rental?
3BHK🤯
So around $650 USD. A bargain, in America for a shitty apartment it’s $1200 in a more liberal area
@@Vichu. Me and my wife earns close to 2 Lac per month so maybe 22.5% of our income collectively. But spending much is saving us money in other ways
- less petrol expenses
- all necessary shops in walkable distance which reduces commute for groceries
Also the apartment is a 1950 sqft 3BHK - hence I can't afford it if I'm buying it and paying EMIs cause monthly EMI will come around 1.2L
@@good-tn9sr still that's considered as expensive in India. But not saying it is not worth for the money
The only reason Bengaluru became IT hub, is because our politicians and gov back in 90’s and 2000, didn't tax much or put any so called licencing red tapes, back then our politicians didn't understand how IT sector works. Which is why the growth in that sector.
But if u look at other sector, u will soon find out our city and country is plaguing in corruption. We need to improve in that part, to compete with silicon valley.
at 2:14, it is HSR, not Koramangla
Thx to that. Bangalore went from being the coolest city in terms of weather to becoming very hot, crowded, expensive, terrible infrastructure, water & electricity shortages & not to mention corrupted officials.
Digital India (now HP), Texas Instruments, MICO (Bosch), Madura Coats and 1000s of small IT companies started before body shopping started in Bangalore. Mr Vajapayee at Central and Mr Krishna at State Level promoted IT Companies in a big way.
@5:53 The name is Sharad Hegde (pronounce heg day), not Sharad Hedge
U gotta check the aerospace boom in Bengaluru
Bengaluru gonna ge called aerospace centre of india
Karnataka state of which Bengaluru is the capital makes up to 65% of total aerospace and Defence export of india imagine the scake at which aerospace is booming in Bengaluru
Real interesting
Namma Bengaluru 😃
Great video Caya.
Namma Bengaluru Namma pride 💛❤.
Love From ❤ India #PremWishes
Yes, the tech space in bengaluru is good , however, whether someone who is not born and raised in that city will be able to cope up with surviving there and adjust to the local people's attitudes and life , that's whole different ball game. It feels nice to roam around as tourist in India temporarily but if you decide to move there for the long term and build a life that's when you will probably go back, rethink and justify your decisions. For people born and raised in India trying to build a better life, working in tech is not a choice, it is their only sure shot option unless they are going to succeed as entrepreneurs. For foreigners and outsiders, it might all look great for a couple of months until things go bad but you can always run back to your base in your country. If you're from a developed nation and somewhat middle class with a college degree then you're still in a much better place than most Indians trying to survive with a 7-12 job. There are many perks that don't come with a tech job in India that comes with a tech job in developed countries.
USA 🇺🇸 resident here...
Thank you for commenting. Liked.
...and here I am, left Bangalore in 1990 for S Africa where at best, the economy has not fully collapsed,.. yet...
Next thing happening in India is around satellite development centres of tier 2 cities in India.
Software development companies led growth of the economy is very promising, however Bangalore has become too overcrowded and Mysore in Karnataka or cities like Jaipur are coming up next on the software dev roadmap.
Hopefully infrastructure keeps up with the pace
Very important , it is evident , the government needs to absolutely step up infrastructure or lose business.
5:53 did you call Sharad Hegde “Shroud Hedge” 😂😂😂
omg that is the funniest thing I’ve heard. HEG-de is a common Kannadiga last name. Not the English word Hedge!
the thumbnail is snn raj greenbay in electronic city!
Same is happening in pune
This is it! ❤️
wow unexpected to see ihanoor hahaaa
Stuck in Koramangala jam in an Ola cab. Time to watch something... guess the vdo I'm watching :P
@slidebean You should also make a video on Chennai when possible. Welcome to Tamil Nadu ;)
he doesnt know taamil. he shouldnt visit naarthie
Just to add some perspective, California has a GDP greater than all of India, so while the rate of change of GDP might be higher in Banglore, they are a couple of magnitudes apart, and it's important to keep that intertia in perspective.
how does the currency exchange rate play into that? i think it is a major factor
Thanks for calling it Bengaluru
2:12 its HSR layout, not kormangla
Fab👌
We have lots of challenges but trust me we are future..... Note it
Excellent video. Would love if you cover Hyderabad's HITEC city too.
The development is great here, due to all those factors people immigrate here and population of bengaluru obviously will increase, the side effects of these revolution are those changes os that regional culture is dying,the kannada language ,the karnataka language all of them are affected, we have to be responsible and retain those cultures too with the development , jai hind jai karnataka mate
Being honest no one used to talk about benguluru...not many people knew where it was located. But now everyone knows it. About 30 of my known friends have gone there to pursue higher education. It's where every student and working person want to live. It's also very safe and clean which adds points to it. Overall everyone from north east to west to central India wants to go there but idk how South Indian people feel about that 😂😅😅 iykyk
It has grown beyond saturation point. I am a local and I am making plans to relocate to Mysore or Hassan or somewhere pleasant within Karnataka. It is a great city ONLY in pockets here and there. I dread going to Kormangala to Whitefield. I always stick to old residential areas like Rajajinagar where Kannada crowd generally lives.
It is still a fantastic city if you compare Bangalore to messy cities outside KA, I personally feel the charm which was there in the 90s exists here and there. I wish other cities in India were developed too to share the burden. It would have benefitted people closer to their hometowns.
We need Africa more so Kenya next