2025: The worlds that took shape - by Ashwin Ramaswami

It was the night of November 5, 2024. I was in Suwanee, Georgia, sitting at the restaurant and bar Rang Sip & Dine to follow the election results. My team had prepared three speeches for me: victory, concession, and too close to call. But by the time the race was called later that night, most people had left. I didn’t end up giving any of the speeches and just thanked people on their way out. As I went to sleep that night, I felt disappointment, pride, and relief that it was all over. Today, one year later, I’m in a world that’s perhaps diametrically the opposite. I live in San Francisco and run Corridor, a company at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity in the heart of Silicon Valley. My life has been marked by constant movement between different worlds. I tried to make sense of this four and a half years ago, when I published my senior column in the Stanford Daily: “When two worlds collide.” In that piece, I explored the two worlds that defined my life, Indian and American. I rea

It was the night of November 5, 2024. I was in Suwanee, Georgia, sitting at the restaurant and bar Rang Sip & Dine to follow the election results. My team had prepared three speeches for me: victory, concession, and too close to call. But by the time the race was called later that night, most people had left. I didn’t end up giving any of the speeches and just thanked people on their way out. As I went to sleep that night, I felt disappointment, pride, and relief that it was all over. Today, one year later, I’m in a world that’s perhaps diametrically the opposite. I live in San Francisco and r