Soumitra

Entrepreneur | M&A | AI Transformation

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

@Delnerismo He’s made a similar mistake in France in 2022, when he was leading the race.

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

@vikramchandra All narratives and no numbers :)

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

@shiladitya Just tried this myself. Wow!

But I am curious - why show chocolates, when you can show higher ticket items (10x-20x) such as toys which blinkit has? @ValueWithPrem

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

I have watched “The Hunt for the Red October”, 10-12 times at least. Highly underrated movie.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Two great character actors going head to head and creating pure gold.
Richard Jordan and Joss Ackland only share three short scenes in The Hunt for Red October (1990), but every glance, pause, and polite line lands like a move in a ruthless chess match. Absolute perfection.

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

WARNING to all @Microsoft Teams users:

Just noticed what appears to be a serious bug.

In a 1-on-1 chat with my COO, I’m seeing msgs from several other team members appear in the same thread.

Had I not caught it, I could’ve shared confidential information assuming ‘‘twas prvt.

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

Scenes while returning from office. #Kolkata

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

@KPTrafficDept I have a flight to catch tomorrow. Could you confirm if the stretch from Biswa Bangla gate in new town to the airport, will clear between 2:00 pm to 2:30 pm?

Please advise if I should leave early.

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

@Jason I’m in.

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@SwiggyCares 235237407223451

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@SwiggyCares is this ethical? Misrepresenting the delivery time and then charging the customer full amount upon cancellation?

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

@BeingPractical I find myself on other end of the spectrum. Built the foundation, little clueless, how to take the narrative to the marketplace to influence decisions or at least raise curiosity.

There’s so much noise there everywhere right now.

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

I need to go to a rehab. #vibecoding

[Normal Guy @Normal_2610]

India pays a premium for the privilege of not learning anything :)

Every Indian car Tata, Mahindra, Maruti, all of them has a tiny computer inside called an ECU (Engine Control Unit)

This computer decides everything - how much fuel to inject, when to shift gears, how brakes work, how the battery behaves in an EV. Think of it as the car's brain.

India makes zero of these brains for passenger cars. All of them come from foreign companies, mainly Bosch (Germany).

If you don't control the brain, you don't really control the car. Indian OEMs can't even add a simple valve to their own engine without asking Bosch for permission.

They can't change a single line of code. They are selling cars with someone else engineering inside.

This isn't really about technology being too hard. It's a business model designed to keep you dependent.

Three layers lock you in :)

First, every new car programme needs Bosch to do setup work (Rs 10-30 crore). Second, you pay full price for software Bosch already developed for Volkswagen so Bosch gets paid twice for the same work.

Third and this is the killer every time you want to change anything in the software, even something tiny, it costs around $500,000. So Indian OEMs simply stop trying to innovate. They accept whatever Bosch gives them.

The calibration trap means tuning the car's brain for Indian conditions, how should the engine behave in Ladakh cold vs Chennai heat?

Indian OEMs outsource even this to AVL in Austria. AVL reuses work they already did for European cars, charges India full price, and transfers zero knowledge. So Indian engineers never even learn how their own cars work from the inside.

What Korea did is Hyundai faced the exact same situation in 1987. They set up Kefico as a joint venture with Bosch, learned everything from the inside, and by 2015 they owned the full technology themselves.

The sequence was simple - first learn calibration (tuning) → then write your own software → then build your own hardware. It's a ladder. India never climbed the first rung.

Why India didn't do this - It's not a talent problem Indian engineers design ECUs at Bosch offices worldwide.

It's a combination of things like Indian OEMs won't fund Indian startups to develop alternatives. They demand that Indian suppliers first prove themselves in Europe before getting a chance at home (while European companies protect their own).

Middle managers won't risk their careers backing a Pune startup when they can safely pick Bosch. India spends 0.64% of GDP on R&D vs Korea's 4.9%. Private sector funds only 36% of India's R&D, in Korea it's 79%.

SEDEMAC - the one exception - One Indian company (IIT Bombay founders, Pune-based) actually makes ECUs for two-wheelers and generators. They have real IP, real patents, millions of units shipped.

But even they couldn't break into passenger cars. Tata Motors is literally in the same city and doesn't use them.

EVs are simpler to control than petrol/diesel engines. This should have been India's fresh start. Instead, Mahindra's new EV platform has Bosch (Germany), Valeo (France), BYD (China), Mobileye (Israel), Continental (Germany) - zero Indian ECUs.

The dependency just migrated from ICE to EV with different foreign names.

https://t.co/WWAQF0P5uR

[Chris Lu @chris__lu]

the most reliable startup formula in YC W26: pick a $200B industry with clunky software and expensive humans. point an AI agent at it. that's it.

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

@Iyervval brother, I follow your posts and talks on YouTube diligently. Been checking your TL several times a day to see if you have posted any news- source from your khufiya sources- on Netanyahu. Aapne toh disappoint kar diya :)

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

The “closer” racing isn’t exciting in anyway. The anticipation, as well as the consequence of an overtake, is gone.

What was a prize, almost as rare as a goal in football, is now a commodity event happening multiple times at any given lap.

They ruined the sport forever.

[Kunal Shah @kunalashah]

From no overtaking to DRS-aided overtakes to now “battery overtakes”, F1 continues to have a problem with “overtaking”.

This time, even the F1 drivers are speaking against it. But, why?

As the years have gone by, has overtaking become less about driver skill & more about tech?

[Aman @Amank1412]

Someone built an AI-driven particle simulator that lets you generate and visualize complex particle systems with prompts,

then export them as HTML, React, or Three.js simulations.

[Aman @Amank1412]

Someone built https://t.co/oipIfNWf2U a directory of 5,700+ failed YC startups with post mortems, deep analysis, and rebuild plans so you can revive dead ideas and turn them into new projects.

[Soumitra @Spaulify]

@kunalashah I’ll probably stop watching F1, after having followed it closely for 23 years. The cars at least 4-5 seconds slower. How is this progress! Let them sell the show for the boba tea generation - i am outta here.