The mixer in your kitchen costs you ~ ₹3,000. And you think it's expensive. But the moulds used to make it can cost ₹20 lakh. The machines running those moulds can cost ₹1 Crore . And that's before: * Factory * Motors machinery * Jar making * 100 components * Packaging * Labour And much more. You see a mixer. Manufacturers see years of sweat & investment. That's the thing about manufacturing: The hardest part is invisible.

Having worked at Leatherman myself, and with one of the core MKC engineers having been Leatherman’s chief production engineers… making a multitool is a 10x step to making a folding knife. Think of all the small scale knife guys going nutty getting lockup and openings dialed in and reliable… now do that with a sandwich of implements. Really exceptionally hard to do. MKC is about $5 million invested to launch their first folding knife at mass production scale. Leatherman invested about $25 million (in 2018 dollars) on the Free line- primarily to tighten overall tolerances to eventually make entirely interchangeable implements on a multi-tool (i.e. go on the website and order a Leatherman with all the implements you want, custom assembled). Making a good multitool is really hard!

The ultraturbomega wealthy omnichronologitarch elites live the same lives as the upper middle class but bigger and louder. They go to dinners, drive a car, live in a house, go on vacation. Who cares? If wealth cannot open the door to truly new experiences, SENSATIONS, who cares?

Universities are backing themselves into a dangerous corner by becoming more expensive at the same time they're becoming less necessary.

There's a startup in the current YC batch that built an MRI machine in 101 days.

India v/s China in B2B Manufacturing: India: • Price depends on negotiation • Same work can have different rates for different clients • Discounts expected before work starts China: • Fixed pricing based on volume specs • Transparent cost structure from the start • Limited negotiation India negotiates the price first. China defines the price first.

"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose". Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups. - The company works 7 days per week. - Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office. - He built a cafe in the office because there was no local cafe that was open 24/7. - 2/3 of the first 30 team members have the Corgi logo as a tattoo. Today I went behind the scenes with Nico, who has used this culture to scale the company to a $2.6BN valuation in just two years. My condensed notes below: 1. If You Are Not Working 7 Days Per Week, You Are Going to Lose: Whatever you can get done in 5 days, you'll get more done in 6 and 7. If you are trying to solve the world’s hardest problems, a standard 5-day workweek will not cut it. 2. Work Trials Repel the Mediocre: Corgi forces candidates into mock work trials over the weekend. If seeing a full office on a Saturday scares them, they don't belong. True intensity acts as a natural filter to attract killers and repel clock-watchers. 3. Lead from the Front Lines You can’t demand 7-day weeks while sitting on a yacht. Nico sleeps 3–4 hours a night on a mattress inside the office. If you want your troops to bleed, you have to be in the trenches with them. 4. Culture Only Means One Thing: Winning Forget superficial jargon like "hackers" or "ex-founders." Strip away the corporate fluff. A great startup culture is aggressively optimized around one single word: Winning. 5. Lifespan vs. Victories Building something world-historic requires radical sacrifice. When asked if he'd rather build a trillion-dollar company and die at 50, or fail and live to 80, the answer was easy. "I would rather measure my lifespan in victories." 6. Reject the Comfort of "Quiet Quitting." If you are operating in a hyper-growth environment and your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every single week, you are quiet quitting. To win, you must deliberately bypass the off-ramps of personal comfort and low volatility. Corgi isn't for everyone—and that’s exactly the point.

Everyone loves saying: "Why don't Indian brands make products like this?" But they don't see the real problem. A well-wisher sent me a reel of a product that would be a huge hit in India. I checked the numbers. China factory price: $20 Landed cost in India: ~₹3,000 Retail price needed: ~₹6,000 Too expensive for most Indians. The funny part? If we Indianised it, we could probably sell it for ₹3,000 and still make it work. But there is one big wall. Moulds. Just the tooling would cost around $80,000. Before selling even one unit. That's the real challenge with making products in India. Not ideas or demand. But the cost and risk of building from scratch. So for now, we focus on smaller bets. Products where we can afford to take the risk. Still, it hurts seeing great ideas and not being able to build them all. How can we solve this?

这个无损全自动书籍扫描仪后面衍生除了个开源项目 linearbookscanner.org/

There are many many places where UI will remain, e.g. no one wants to say "make it more blue" to a photo editing app, or "increase the bass" to a music app. I was focussing mostly on my world (saas, productivity, etc.)

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