I'm young, determined, and somewhat of a misfit (whether that's good or bad is worth finding out for me)
What will I need to successfully pull off a deep tech startup from India?
I'm talking about something like SpaceX, OpenAI or Deepmind.
I know one thing for a fact: navigating through resource constraints is inherently Indian, jugaad if you may (that's a plus)
I can also unfortunately acknowledge another deeply ingrained Indian trait: short sightedness (a major con so far). We are so scarcity-minded that everything must produce results immediately or else we never take that call.
One solution that comes to mind (highly ambitious, of course): Leverage our resourcefulness to deliver innovation much quicker than the competition. (Thinking Mangalyaan or Chandrayan, for example)
What are your thoughts?
If you don't have an engineering or maths background, seriously reconsider starting a deep tech AI company. It's not easy
Im genuinely confused with this obsession over deep tech? Pick an existing problem and its solution and see if your version can give 2x 3x delta of utility to the end user. Keep it small simple and targeted.
Maybe you're right. But at least from a lot of what I've read (YC, Peter Thiel etc), people won't switch unless there is a 10x delta. Whereas deeptech can give upwards of 100x deltas (eg: Google deepmind's contribution to protein structures) Hence the obsession.
Start working and stop posting
Thank you! Yes, I will.
If you were capable of making a deeptech startup in India you wouldn’t be asking here, sourcing ideas. I think you need to touch grass and see what the frontiers of tech really are. Those guys at oai or deepseek are so insanely smart, driven and capable that they are simply getting on to work
That's blunt, ouch. But yes, no grapevine poster has ever made a deeptech startup in India. @Micheal_Scott could you please confirm this stat?
F jugaad.
Sorry boss but either you were an early stage employee at a unicorn or scaled something 100x else on day 1 people won’t support a deep tech in India it’s also a factor of how VCs don’t have that capital capability either build the MVP and then go out
Product managers and deep tech.??
First tell me what is tech
Sure, IT for the past few decades and AI now are the booming technologies but that doesn't mean tech is just limited to them. Any useful application of the sciences is tech 😅
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