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#141 Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations

2022/6/28
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Kunal Shah: 我在商业世家的成长经历让我深刻理解了驱动人们行为的根本动力,以及如何在看似普通的趋势中发现商机。我学习到的关键经验包括:无视羞耻感,直面失败;敏锐地洞察事物价值,并将其分解到单位经济层面;时刻关注新兴趋势,并寻找不与他人竞争的市场;以及充分利用社区资源,在失败时获得支持。这些经验让我在商业领域取得了成功,也让我意识到印度社会与西方社会在价值观和商业模式上的巨大差异。 我观察到,印度社会对社会地位和声望的重视程度远高于西方社会,这直接影响了人们的消费行为和商业模式。例如,人们更愿意为能够提升社会地位的产品和服务支付更高的价格,即使这些产品和服务的实用性并不高。此外,印度社会对时间的价值认知与西方社会也有所不同,人们不太注重效率,更愿意花费更多时间来节省少量金钱。这些差异导致许多西方商业模式难以在印度市场取得成功。 在投资方面,我总结出了一个名为“Delta 4”的框架,用于预测创业公司的成功概率。这个框架的核心思想是,只有当一个产品或服务能够显著提高人们效率时,才能获得成功。这种效率提升必须足够大,才能让用户无法回到之前的低效状态,并自发地向他人推荐。 此外,我还发现,成功的创业公司往往能够洞察到人们的深层动机,并以此为基础设计产品和服务。这些动机通常与社会地位、交配成功以及后代的成功有关,并且在不同文化中具有普遍性。 Shane Parrish: Kunal Shah 的观点为我们理解人类动机以及如何在不同文化背景下构建成功的商业模式提供了宝贵的视角。他强调洞察力在商业中的重要性,以及如何识别和利用隐藏在显而易见趋势中的机会。他还指出了印度与西方文化在价值观和商业模式上的差异,以及这些差异如何影响人们的决策和行为。Kunal Shah 的“Delta 4”框架为评估创业公司成功概率提供了一个新的视角,而他对时间价值、社会地位和信息不对称的见解,则为我们理解财富创造和商业成功提供了更深层次的思考。

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Kunal Shah discusses the lessons he learned from growing up in a business family, including the importance of understanding value, spotting trends, and the community benefits of the Gujarati community.

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My guest is Indian entrepreneur and venture capitalist Kunal Shah who calls on his decades of entrepreneurial experience to discuss what he’s learned about what motivates people, and how observing trends hiding in plain sight has made him a runaway success in business.

We also discuss the many cultural differences between India and the West, what he learned growing up in the family business and how he applies it today, observing reality, why he dropped out of an MBA program, strategies for decision-making, and so much more.

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