Indians (of the subcontinent) in Silicon Valley don’t want to see other Indians win. Nepotism and camaraderie is exclusive to niche subgroups like IIT-tambrams (Tamil-Brahmins) who make up the already “in” tech elite.

If the mediocre indian-educated $20M-$70M net worth big-tech 20yr+ tenured ~staff engineers to <= VPs increased their risk appetite only slightly and deployed their stock-market parked capital intra-community, they would be orders of magnitude wealthier (and powerful) than they already are. This group has the unique ability to drive adoption of whatever tooling they want and subsequently markups for early-stage/pre-PMF companies.

Some ethnic and religious groups in tech operate with internal competition, where support is conditional and reserved for those already in the club. Others default to blanket community uplift regardless of pedigree.

Bay-Area Indian millennial/genX-ers need a Lisan al-Gaib to unite the houses of Palo Alto, Evergreen, and Cupertino before traditional venture as we know it dies.

The issue is probably just derivative of college entrance exams. The ones that topped exams don’t need to be competitive with each other because they all won, but the ones that didn’t (at least immediately), developed a 20+ yr old chip on their shoulder that never filled in.