I’m on a mission to make Kerala a Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley was orchards before it was Silicon Valley. What turned it was groundwork, and groundwork follows a formula: infrastructure, then talent, then innovation, in that order.
Places to build, close enough to walk to. A region cannot produce founders if the nearest room with a plug and a mentor is a district away.
Technical ability found early and taught in the language the student already thinks in, not filtered by who could afford to move to a metro at eighteen.
Ventures started here and kept here, so that the value they create compounds locally instead of leaving with the founder.
We built a model, so it can be built again.
Kerala as a Model is the formula, the approach and the ten year sequence, written down as something another region can follow. What worked here was not the place. It was the order.
- 01Read the region first
- 02Build the ground
- 03Teach early, and locally
- 04Keep the ventures where they started
- 05Fund it from more than one place
- 06Separate who builds from who keeps
- 07Bring the institutions in
- 08Count what you built
- 09Sequence it over ten years