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What I told 2,000 future founders in Bengaluru today:
1/ We believe we are at the start of a second wave of Indian companies that will build world-class AI native products for the global market. Emergent and Giga are the model of the future.
2/ Just because a space seems crowded doesn't mean it's too late. Zepto, Emergent, Giga - none were first movers. Second mover advantage is real.
3/ In fact, a good formula for finding startup ideas is to look at ideas that are showing some promise and just execute them better. Execution is everything: if you're an exceptional engineer, and you can build and move faster than your competitors, you'll win.
4/ There is every reason to believe Indian teams can beat US teams building global products. The level of engineering talent here is on a whole different level, and that's the key input.
5/ In the AI era, the best founders are the ones building at the edge of what's technically possible. You need to be experimenting wth the latest models, the latest open source projects.
6/ Stay in the flow of information. Watch the right podcasts, follow the right people on X. With AI changing this fast, you need to know what the smartest builders are thinking.
7/ Most of the best startups don't come from someone explicitly trying to start a company. They start from someone building a project just for fun, or tinkering with a new technology because they are curious. India needs more of this "tinkering" culture - this is how you have novel ideas when technology is shifting quickly.
8/ Founders are getting younger. Aadit was 18 when he started Zepto. The Giga founders were 20 when they came to SF. Young people who can learn very fast have the advantage right now.
9/ The best founders are pushing AI coding to the max. You can now write 20K lines of code / day. One person can do the work that just a year ago would take a 100 person team. The best builders are taking advantage and building at Garry Tan speeds.
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Robotics is everything you could wish for working in engineering.
Mechanical, electronics, machine learning, maths, physics, creativity, art, all coming together to form a system you can hold in your hands.
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What's happening in coding is about to happen to ALL knowledge work. The models can already do it, the capital has been raised with smart founders at the application layer, the tech gets better and cheaper every month, and the economics are just irresistible to employers.
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just completed a whole ass hackathon, 80% of code was written by AI. team only did extensive ideation, planning, high level tech stack/design choices. every other team was doing the same too.
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>what really helps is being familiar with the tech stack you're using.
>also, the desired functioning for each little feature should be clearly thought out beforehand.
>adopt good design practices, have awareness about the dataset you're utilising.
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ok the current tech scene is actually insane: AI literally feels like magic, chips are the new oil, and every startup is in panic-upskill mode.
this is either the greatest opportunity of our lives… or the next dot-com crash on steroids.
there's no in between.
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2009:
- Ben 10
- Angry Birds
- Call of Duty
- Fruit Ninja
2015:
- Clash of Clans
- Subway Surfers
- Pokémon
- Shadow Fight 2
- Mini militia
2019:
- PUBG
- Minecraft
- Fortnite
- GTA V
2025:
- X
- GitHub
- Notion
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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