@ChitrakShivalik Companies don’t want to leave Ahmedabad for fun. Poor planning and flooded roads are giving them a reason. Maybe Shivalik should lead the way.
You won’t lose your best people because they stop caring. You’ll lose them because they cared too much, for too long, in a system that rewarded the wrong ones and wasted their time.
Startups don’t die because of one big failure. They die because no one noticed the right thing soon enough. The user friction. The team friction. The answer was always there. They just didn’t have the feedback loops to catch it in time.
Companies rarely slow down for the reasons they think. People point to process or tools or unclear roadmaps. But more often it’s the emotional weight of things unspoken. A tension in the room that turns to friction in the work. No tool fixes that.
Building Is the New Resume
People still act like resumes matter. They don’t.
At least not in the way they used to. A resume is a frozen snapshot. But in tech, especially now, it’s movement that matters.
You can’t fake momentum. You can’t hide behind a polished bio when your last five projects are right there, one click away.
If someone wants to know what you’re good at, they won’t ask. They’ll look. And when they look, what they find will say more than any credentials ever could.
This is the world most people are not prepared for.
They still chase titles. Still worry about job descriptions. Still treat experience like it compounds just because time passes. But the people winning aren’t doing that. They’re showing their work. And they’re getting better while everyone else is busy looking official.
It used to be that pedigree opened doors. Now, the work does. And in many cases, it doesn’t even knock. It just circulates. Gets noticed. Gets shared. Gets pulled into the right rooms by the right people who never asked for a resume to begin with.
This shift isn’t loud, but it’s permanent. The gap between people who build in public and people who wait for permission is getting wider every day. The AI tools are out. The feedback loops are fast. You don’t need a manager or a recruiter to tell you you’re ready. You just need to start.
There’s no secret to it. The builders you admire? They didn’t wait. They made things, put them in the world, and let reality sharpen them. And now they have something to point to. Something that lives outside their heads.
The irony is that most people still think building in public is risky. What they don’t see is that staying hidden is the bigger risk. Because if no one sees your work, you have to keep explaining yourself. And the more you explain, the more it sounds like you haven’t done anything worth showing.
So what should you do?
Stop trying to look impressive. Make things. Write. Launch. Share what you’re learning. Make your work easy to find and impossible to ignore.
That’s your real resume now. And it updates every time you publish something new.
@vikramchopra So good to see real AI applications in action. Love how Cars24 is leveraging AI across different use cases to power the marketplace. @vikramchopra