Entrepreneurship is not about big ideas. It is about solving a real problem better than anyone else and refusing to stop until you do.
The dot-com boom taught me that markets can stay irrational far longer than you expect. And then correct far faster than you are prepared for.
Giving money away is harder than making it. You have to be as rigorous about impact as you are about returns.
We built Cascade when nobody was sure ATM networking would matter. We built Sycamore when everyone was sure fiber optics was the future. Both taught me something different about timing.
India has hundreds of millions of potential entrepreneurs who have never had access to capital or mentorship. That is not a social problem. That is an economic opportunity the size of a continent.