Dear Prime Minister Ambani, Please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that you are the real boss of India. Naturally, you would prefer to maintain your monopolistic exploitation of the great people of India, but would you nonetheless consider allowing Starlink to compete? There are many areas of India, as there are in all countries, with no Internet access, which denies children the opportunity for education and for small businesses the opportunity to sell their goods to a global market. Starlink would change their lives for the better. Thank you 🙏

four teams. four themes. forty five minutes to build a globally competitive spacetech startup from scratch. the themes on the table: in-orbit servicing and debris removal, space manufacturing, orbital data centres, and re-launch infra. one team looked at all of them and decided to go their own way- battery packs for satellites. the moment the timer started, strategies diverged. one team picked a theme within 20 seconds, rushed to a conference room and shut the door to keep their trade secrets confidential. another spent the first ten minutes stress-testing every theme before committing. all of them got very technical, very fast. when it was time to pitch, all teams turned brutally honest and winning a fund vote from a room of people with deep expertise was not easy. the team that deliberately chose the theme they had the least conviction in, to push themselves, walked away with the most yes's. that was zero to orbit. more of these coming.

🚨 At just 23, Anjali Sardana built Pronto, a Bengaluru-based 10-minute home services startup now valued at ₹800 crore.