Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141]

For example, Indians are not familiar with the concept of salary/hour, which makes products whose value proposition is “convenience” very hard to sell, as opposed to the west.Maybe soulfulness is a function of chaos and inefficiencyIt is impossible to scale in life without standardizing, and standardization is the enemy of soulfulnessStandardized t... See more

The Maslow hierarchy of needs is completely different in asia, that’s why many products fail at monetisation when they enter these markets

“I think a lot of people have to do things that are motivated by other people’s perception of them and also motivated by the pressure that’s exerted by the people that are very closely around you” – Chamath Palihapitiya