Abhay on X: "Sovereignty Gaps" / X
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Sovereignty Gaps
Don’t make something people want, make something the system needs[1] It is customary to describe startups as bottoms-up phenomena. The concept itself “start-up” seems to suggest that you start (from the bottom), and go up. We’re all familiar with the “startup myth” (it is funny that they all seem to start in the exact same way). An eccentric founder in a garage. They have a brilliant idea—the light bulb moment—and by sheer force of insight or persistence, the idea propagates outward until it reshapes the world. Unfortunately, this story is appealing not because it is true, but because it…
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