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This film was made mainly for the audience of Bajaj Group's 100-year celebration event, but consider Rajkumar Hirani's involvement as director, it is no surprise that it has been released to the public too.
Most corporate films of this nature tend to look like documentaries, charting the evolution of the company with the seriousness of a PowerPoint presentation. But this one, conceptualized by Wondrlab India, and directed by Rajkumar Hirani, is actually a fun, entertaining watch, despite the (almost) 10-minutes duration!
There's also skillful use of AI in bringing some long-dead personalities to life, and it was great to see Mahatma Gandhi ride a Bajaj scooter as if it was his personal vehicle all the time!
My only grouse was Gandhi not asking Sanjiv Bajaj, "Beta Sanjiv... aap log bar bar spam call or message karke logon ko kyun pareshan karte ho?".
#marketing #creativity
Open letter to Indians in America.
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Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat:
Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way.
Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned.
You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict.
Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect.
Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself.
As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal.
Respectfully
Sridhar Vembu
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.
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I have always believed “INTENT” is far more superior than anything to accomplish a task which is long term in nature. Govt & citizens should have an intent to solve the problem!!
I was watching this video by @RainmatterOrg about how Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad) cleaned up the Kham river in 5 years. It had become a sewage drain, and they turned it back into a flowing river. Made me think about especially of Delhi's air quality problem.
They mapped 249 waste entry points with drones and installed traps. Rerouted sewage to treatment plants and built new ones. Set up a facility for textile waste from factories. Cleaned the river and discovered springs that were buried under debris. Fixed waste collection across the city, removed 170 dump sites. The municipal commissioner joined weekend cleanups himself. Citizens showed up every Saturday. The key was stopping waste from entering the river in the first place, not just cleaning it.
If a smaller city can pull this off in 5 years with the municipal corporation, NGOs, and citizens working together, I was wondering if governments, businesses, NGOs, and citizens actually collaborate, can't they make a difference in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and many other cities where the Air quality is really bad.
40% of startups die after a seed.
50% of the remainder die after a Series A.
60% of the remainder die after a Series B.
58% of the remainder die after a Series C.
Roughly ~2.5% after the seed are acquired, so not “dead”.
0.5-1% go IPO.
Startups are hard.
Life was better till few weeks back when we were not valued as unicorn, no one noticed us or knew of our existence... चार दिन पहले कोई पूछता भी नहीं था अपने को 😅
Now inbox gets flooded with invites for meet-ups, lunches, catch-ups, seminars, podcasts, social events, private events, dinners, etc.. too much for a introvert to handle.
Now I know how unicorn startups get wasted... दुनिया का विकास करने निकलते हैं और खुद का विकास भूल जाते हैं.. 😬
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I have just summarised it :)
👩💻➡️🤖 Devs, AI hiring is broken. Founders demand “proof of value” but can’t define it.
This thread maps exact blueprint of what signals top AI startups CARE about & how you can show them — so you land that job or raise faster.