His reach. He's an Indian Lex Friedman (and I mean that derogatorily [edit: what I mean is I dislike Lex Friedman's lack of substance and oversimplification of extremely complex subjects, and how Dwarkesh uses a similar tack]), but as such has significant reach.

Now that Indian consumers have now become a major bloc in most Western social media platforms, more Dwarkeshes will enter western discourse.

Furthermore, unlike Chinese, Indians overwhelmingly use Western platforms, and Indian policymakers have begun using this consumer power to push western companies to collocate and shift the center of gravity to Indian offices.