When you use Google Docs, GitHub, Cursor, Perplexity, Angellist, or Photoshop, you aren't thinking of those as "Indian" products even if the CEO or founder happens to be of Indian origin. Similarly, all the content, code, and smart contracts coming out of both India and the diaspora should be conceptualized as Internet First, not India first. To be clear, India the country is improving every day. It's now becoming a launchpad for the world. And with 800M+ internet users, most of whom got online in the past decade, along with thousands of years of cultural history, India has both the sheer quantity of users and quality of producers to become a digital power on a global scale. Huge credit for that improvement must go towards India's domestic political leadership over the last ten years. It wasn't easy to improve the infrastructure to that degree. But even if an Indian founder launches in India first as a logistical matter, their mental model should ultimately be Internet First. Because the Internet is the global market. And with the rise of blockchains, it now provides uniform monetary policy, smart contract enforcement, identity, property rights, and dispute resolution to anyone online. From an Indian perspective, you can think of the Internet as the third wave of independence. First, legal independence from London in 1947. Then, physical independence from DC in 1998 with the Pokhran nuclear test. Finally, economic independence through the rise of Reliance Jio and the Internet. After all, an Indian engineer may be a second class citizen in the West, unfortunately now hated by the left for being a capitalist and much of the right for being an immigrant. However, they are first class citizens on the global Internet, where they are finally full equals. That's what a peer-to-peer network means. Hence, Internet First.