Startup is a living verb, not a has-been adjective.

I always like to describe my company as a 3 decades plus young startup. To my mind, the current ongoing restructuring process of the global economy — which started in the pre Covid-19 era due to de-globalization, Internet induced changes and automation — has torrentially changed the landscape of work. It is forcing every organization, city and even countries to start over and reinvent themselves. Hence, ‘Startup’ is an action oriented agenda, one step at a time, one day at a time. Applied to individuals, organizations and countries. It is a daily living and breathing verb.

I found it interesting that Balaji S Srinivasan in his latest article “Miami Tech Week — The Start Of Startup Cities” (referred to as ‘Miami article’ in the rest of this post) uses the backdrop of the Indian flag along with images of a healthy tree, the Bitcoin logo and a flying bird perhaps signifying democracy, nature, decentralization & freedom in that order.

Even though today, India is in a terrible shape with a daily 3000+ Covid-19 deaths and ten times more new cases and a reported 230 million slipping back into poverty, we need to look beyond the depths of the pits of the immediate crisis. I have no doubt that with our resilience & corrective action, we shall grow out of it as we owe it to the largest segment of our 1.3 billion plus population with the biggest stake in our future : our…