589th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Sramana Mitra, Man and Superman: Part 1

In this talk from 2019, I speak about Man and Superman – the impact of how AI-driven augmentation of the human species will render one part of civilization – MAN – extinct. The other part, the part that becomes enhanced by AI, will thrive. This enhanced Superman will compose music like Beethoven, write poetry like Tagore, make scientific discoveries like Einstein, etc. Do we still consider this AI-enhanced species Mankind? Maybe not. But that’s beside the point. This enhanced organism is the direction in which evolution is taking us. This is the future of Artificial Intelligence. There will be Superman in the not too distant future.

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590th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Sramana Mitra, The Future of Capitalism

When I gave this talk in 2016, I spoke on the Future of Capitalism. I discussed how mass-scale automation engineered by Artificial Intelligence stands to render human beings useless. With nothing to do. With no mechanism to earn a livelihood. The Economic impact of AI on society was my primary concern. My general conclusion was that we need Universal Basic Income – a form of economic redistribution – to keep society from spinning out of control. This conclusion is now, by and large, an accepted remedy in a world that is about to go through extensive automation. However, it is likely to take a couple of decades to fully infiltrate society. So we’re not quite going to a post-work world immediately.

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The Startup Velocity Question: What Hinders Acceleration in VC Funded Companies?

I have been running 1Mby1M since 2010. I find myself saying to entrepreneurs ad nauseam that VCs want to invest in startups that can go from zero to $100 million in revenue in 5 to 7 years.

Startups that do not have what it takes to achieve velocity should not be venture funded.

Experienced VCs, over time, have developed heuristics to gauge what constitutes a high growth venture investment thesis. 

Man and Superman: India’s Prospects in the Age of AI (Part 3)

Tuberculosis is still rampant in the more resource-constrained areas of the world from India, Southeast Asia, and South Africa. There are about 10 million to 11 million TB cases every year. It’s still a problem. A lot of people still die from TB. So here, we have Indian AI technology addressing a big medical problem, and having a huge impact.

Man and Superman: India’s Prospects in the Age of AI (Part 1)

(Sramana Mitra discusses India’s Prospects in the Age of AI at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture in Kolkata, India on November 3, 2023)

It’s a real pleasure for me to return to this forum after four years. Thank you very much, Maharaj, for having me again and again. History is evolving rather quickly at the moment.

Looking for 1Mby1M Ambassadors to Scale Our Work Globally

Friends,

Many of you have responded to our collaboration requests on LinkedIn.

Many of you have reached out to us independently, wanting to add value to the work we do in developing the tech entrepreneurship pipeline around the world.

We are now much better equipped to harness your desire to contribute in a concrete way.

Startup Ecosystem in Kolkata: The Help We Need

Join us on Thursday, July 20, at 8:30 p.m. IST / 8 a.m. PDT for a special roundtable program: Brainstorming on Eastern India Startup Development. Come share your perspective, sign up to Speak and we will accommodate as many as possible with a few minutes to talk, register here. In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here.

No, we don’t need money.

We need you to look around in your sphere of influence and find entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs and facilitate their learning.

We need you to guide them to increase their odds of a successful entrepreneurial journey by investing their TIME in a rigorous learning process that is firmly rooted in Bootstrapping. 

Not Blitzscaling. Bootstrapping.

Startup Ecosystem in Kolkata: A Word From Tagore

Join us on Thursday, July 20, at 8:30 p.m. IST / 8 a.m. PDT for a special roundtable program: Brainstorming on Eastern India Startup Development. Come share your perspective, sign up to Speak and we will accommodate as many as possible with a few minutes to talk, register here. In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here.

If you understand the language, listen to this in its Bengali original.

Here’s my English Translation of the poem for those who do not understand the language: