I’m on a mission to make Kerala a Silicon Valley.
The Foundation is my non-profit. Its work is the part of the ecosystem that cannot be a business: the groundwork that has to exist before anyone can build on it.
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.
Companies started here and kept here, so that the value they create compounds locally instead of leaving with the founder.
The next company of that scale should be started by someone who never had to leave Kerala to start it.
Every technology capital was built the same way: infrastructure, then talent, then the companies that could only have come from having both. None of it was an accident, and none of it happened in under a generation.
The Foundation is kept deliberately separate from the companies. Charity funded by a business is charity that disappears in a bad year. So the businesses are charged for properly, and the Foundation is funded from what they earn, on purpose, with a number attached.