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This slide explains very well why we're bullish on building motor tech in India. We need to do it for the following key reasons: 1. Application-specific motors: We need application-specific motors for all emerging markets—be it EVs, agriculture, drones, powertools, etc. Catalog-based motors won't work. 2. Energy-efficient motors: With all the electrification happening across different segments, we will need energy efficiency guidelines in every sector so that energy wastage is reduced. Just as we have star ratings in the consumer space and IE ratings in the industrial space, we need to have them in other sectors. 3. National security: We have to stop importing products. When you import, you always get past versions of products with limited access. Considering geopolitical scenarios and supply chain limitations, India needs to make its own tech. 4. Reduced operating cost: Electrification reduces operating costs across sectors, but we must make them efficient. We need to have local companies that can provide better services. A combination of both will rapidly push market growth while opening new market segments. 5. Build-to-spec capability: We need to move away from being build-to-design manufacturers and become build-to-spec manufacturers. We can achieve that only if we start building core tech.

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I'm traveling the world for a bit, starting with China but then hopping around the globe, anywhere. Open to any adventure. No plans, only a backpack. Hoping to meet & get to know humans from all walks of life. The pic is from a long hike on the Great Wall. For me, as a fan of history, this was an epic experience. In China, first I'm visiting a few big cities & talking to engineers at the heart of China's AI revolution. After that, if feeling crazy enough, I'm hitchhiking (first time) across rural China for a few weeks. Hitchhiking because I think it's the best way to meet rural folks who I would otherwise never get the chance to meet. I hope to do the same in US and other places. I have a request, if you have a travel recommendation, fill out the form(s) below if you feel like it. Or share with folks who might have advice about such travel. Form 1 - travel recommendation: If you can, recommend to me an interesting place I should visit anywhere in the world. For this, fill out form 1. Not touristy stuff, but something off the beaten path, that tourists may not know about, but is legendary. It could be as remote as meeting a herder in the mountains who is a local legend. Asia, Middle East, Europe, India, South/North America, Africa, Australia, anywhere. In China, I'm hoping to visit maybe Heibei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, etc, so recommendations for spots to visit are helpful. Form 2 - coffee: If you want to grab a coffee with me anywhere in the world, fill out form 2 (please don't use form 1 for that). Anyway, I hectically tossed stuff in backpack. Realizing I don't have a clear plan of any kind, which is probably the only way to do it. LFG. Love you all ❤️

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somebody pls ask me to write a thread post 8 months like tell me how was life

@vijayshekhar @vkhosla VK sir 🚀. He's one of those key people I would want to speak.

Don’t extrapolate the past, future is more ambitious than any wise persons guess ! 🚀 love @vkhosla sir, for his unwavering commitment to entrepreneurship. 🙌🏼 x.com/StartupArchive…

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@lvjin1993 Love it

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science without engineering is just a philosophy

Those who wish to do R&D should listen to this.

Always lovely to see deeptech startup entering $Bn dollar club

@dineshpaii We can't really force R&D to produce tech that works first time. There should be freedom to fail. Else it will become highly process binded and teams will start optimising for things that ensure success of work and not focusing on high risk high reward tech.

Most of my network is deeptech startups, all of them are looking for same things that I mentioned. R&D can't be time binded. Hardware iteration cycles are longer. It involves design, simulation, prototyping and finally testing. Most of the startups, because of low volumes don't get preferred by vendors. Testing equipments are costly so testing is also mostly done outside. Testing sites have waiting timelines. All of these factors addup lot of delay and tbh can't really be bought by giving extra money. Founders are looking for patient capital where they get time to work on tech and not be forced for revenues by launching immature products.

The Indian venture ecosystem has evolved over the past few years, but the one shift I see clearly is that the best founders choose their investors. Which means most of us in the industry are spending more time wondering whether the most intentional founders are even thinking of us when it matters. What I have gathered so far from conversations is that most entrepreneurs dont think of investors until the moment they need one. And whoever is top of mind at that moment often gets the first call. Not the best fit. The most recalled. Will come back to this later. So what does that mean? Well, funds can't just PR their way into the best deals and companies over the next few years. Or capital alone will not really cut it. Fund and investors who are tangibly useful to founders win. We've been thinking about this at @Rainmatterin. Through @zerodha, we've lived with regulatory constraints, the distribution problems, and trust gaps that our portfolio founders are now trying to solve. We understand small improvements are critical for startups and help them with it - be it getting them help with compliance, advice, connections with potential customers, or even helping them with messaging and communication. These are not unique ideas, but small things that go a long way. But I honestly don't know if these things matter to a founder building in fintech, health, climate, or deeptech when they're deciding who to call? Or does it get drowned out by whoever showed up more consistently in their feed, their WhatsApp, their alumni network? I'm genuinely trying to figure this out. If you've raised money or advised founders. What was the defining thing in choosing investors? Was it someone's writing or thesis? A portfolio company? Or something else?

Sometimes the question is "why", sometimes the answer is "why not".

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if you're new to actuators, study these companies: strain-wave reducers (rotary transmission): - Harmonic Drive Systems, Japan - Leaderdrive, China - Green Harmonic, China planetary roller screws (linear transmission): - Rollvis, Switzerland - Schaeffler / Ewellix, Germany - SKF, Sweden frameless BLDC motors: - Kollmorgen, US - maxon, Switzerland - TQ-RoboDrive, Germany - CubeMars, China bearings: - THK, Japan - IKO, Japan torque sensors: - ATI Industrial, US - FUTEK, US complete actuator modules: - Hyundai Mobis, Korea - Apptronik, US - Unitree, China - AgiBot, China encoders: - RLS / Renishaw, UK - Celera Motion, US Japan, China, Switzerland, Germany dominate let me know who im missing

If you're a builder in hardware. I would like to speak to you. Learn from your work and share what we do. Doesn't matter the stage. DM.