@Rachit_Arora26@1shankarsharma@ActusDei Same Indians and India-origin Americans rock it in the US though. SpaceX' director of Starship Operations is Shyamal Patel!
@nithinkd If there's space for one more frontier model to be built within $1Bn, we (some people in India) should take that bet.
But yeah, for now, also focus on the application layer. And lightweight model derivatives dedicated to specialized tasks.
@x_rahulraj Yes but also, in CHN, someone magically invests a $ Bn in a factory, and is happy if at 90% capacity it breaks even, and at 100% it makes 7% profit. This makes no business sense. But that's how they aggregate demand, and in turn let people focus on the craft.
So many people want to design, build and market a physical product. Even if they get over the time it takes to agonize over the details that make a difference, tool costs and inventory invariably get them.
This is a good reminder of what it takes.
The mixer in your kitchen costs you ~ โน3,000.
And you think it's expensive.
But the moulds used to make it can cost โน20 lakh.
The machines running those moulds can cost โน1 Crore+.
And that's before:
* Factory
* Motors machinery
* Jar making
* 100+ components
* Packaging
* Labour
And much more.
You see a mixer.
Manufacturers see years of sweat & investment.
That's the thing about manufacturing:
The hardest part is invisible.
Having worked at Leatherman myself, and with one of the core MKC engineers having been Leathermanโs chief production engineersโฆ making a multitool is a 10x step to making a folding knife.
Think of all the small scale knife guys going nutty getting lockup and openings dialed in and reliableโฆ now do that with a sandwich of implements. Really exceptionally hard to do.
MKC is about $5 million invested to launch their first folding knife at mass production scale.
Leatherman invested about $25 million (in 2018 dollars) on the Free line- primarily to tighten overall tolerances to eventually make entirely interchangeable implements on a multi-tool (i.e. go on the website and order a Leatherman with all the implements you want, custom assembled).
Making a good multitool is really hard!
@amitranjan A question we ask often. It's not that we can't make our products rugged, or beautiful, or intelligent, or all of it. It's that we don't have the budgets, and/or can't command the price that Dyson does. A semi-vicious cycle.
@deepakshenoy@grok in case the Rupee depreciates further, how do the banks guarantee a 7% return in foreign currency? Will RBI resort to quantitative easing, printing, to help the banks pay it back?
@Runner1187 Different for different people, and different activities?
I'm screaming up a 1km slope while riding a road bike at 110 HR (checked with both chest strap and wrist device). But a run at a moderate easy breath conversation speed easily hits 140 on a simple slope.
The ultraturbomega wealthy omnichronologitarch elites live the same lives as the upper middle class but bigger and louder. They go to dinners, drive a car, live in a house, go on vacation. Who cares? If wealth cannot open the door to truly new experiences, SENSATIONS, who cares?
A "no" email, but the prospect forgot to NOT copy the part the LLM said "Certainly - I'll phrase it in a friendly, clear way, without coming across as too harsh:" ๐