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The origins of India's IT industry
Tanishk Sharma Shared
31 Oct 2026
Asianometry: The Birth & Rise of India's IT Outsourcing Industry
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Great content by one of my favorite creators. I finally understand the origins of the industry where I have spent the first decade of my career! We have been standing on the shoulders of giants all along...

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Tanishk Sharma Article
1st Jun
Stop Building Solutions, Start Solving Problems

Most products fail before a single line of code is written. Here's the three-step process to fix that.

Most builds fail before they start. People are already thinking about features before they've understood the problem, the context around it, or what outcome they actually want. The moment you're designing a solution, you stop seeing the problem clearly. The biggest favour you can do yourself is to focus on the problem

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Most products fail before a single line of code is written. Not because of bad execution, but because the problem was never properly defined. Here's a three-step process to get it right before you build anything.

#ai #product #strategy #startups #building
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Tanishk Sharma Post
5 Jul 2026

Every founder unlocks their domain expansion eventually, usually by the fourth loss-making startup. Mine is Unlimited Runway: a barrier technique that traps you in a 2BHK hacker house in Koramangala where every bed is a bean bag, every wall is a whiteboard, six founders share zero revenue, and rent is paid in equity. My cursed technique is announcing a sovereign LLM for Bharat, then shipping a ChatGPT wrapper that burns 4x more cloud credits than the subscription revenue. The only escape is a successful exit. We are pre-revenue, pre-idea. Nobody is leaving.

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