Growing up in India, I experienced firsthand how technology can dramatically change lives, like when we finally got a rotary telephone after a five-year wait, which transformed how people communicated.

I grew up in a very small town, surrounded by a community, and my life was all about being part of that community.

Moving back to India before high school was a traumatic change for me, but it taught me to thrive through pivotal moments.

My early experiences with failure, including poor exam results, motivated me to prove my capabilities and set personal challenges in engineering.

After university, I initially felt confined in the family business, so I explored other projects before returning to work on ambitious engineering projects.

The promise of education leading to job availability in India is broken, resulting in a young, intelligent population facing job scarcity, which could lead to societal unrest.

I dropped out of high school to begin my journey as a software engineer after being offered a job at a startup in Switzerland.

I pursued my interests in math and sciences relentlessly, eventually studying mechanical engineering and working in aerospace before joining Tesla.

We need to cultivate a mindset in India that encourages ambition and the pursuit of big goals, rather than settling for mediocrity.