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Why the F can't India have its own OpenAI?

Building a data center, Indian OpenAI, CM3 positivity, and 70 hour work week

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Shobhit Bakliwal
January 18, 2025

Hello hello! What’s up?

This is a letter, a personal letter, from me to you. I hope to send it to you every week. If you find it boring, or want to holler at me, just reply to this.

I am going to share three interesting things I came across the past week, every week.

Let’s get into it.

  1. Building a data center

So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center

When it comes to infrastructure engineering, building a data center is probably closer to building a house than to deploying a Terraform stack.

blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-one

Railway shares who a data center is built.

  1. Why can’t India have its own OpenAI?

Why can't India have it's own OpenAI ?

Can a company like OpenAI (or Facebook or Google) be built out of India? Are there some things we can learn from the past? Some lessons from building Qubole, a big-data platform, out of India.

clearfeed.ai/blogs/why-cant-india-have-its-own-openai-facebook-google

Piece explaining challenges in building a pure, deep tech company sitting in India.

Not gonna lie, sharing it with a very heavy heart!

  1. What is CM1, CM2, CM3 positive?

No BS Guide to CM1, CM2, CM3 (Contribution Margins), must know if you work in E-Commerce!

You keep hearing these terms if you work in E-Commerce, so what exactly is CM1, CM2, CM3 Positive or negative, people in your office keep talking about?

cm3positive.com/ecommerce/guide-to-cm1-cm2-cm3-contribution-margins-must-know-if-you-work-in-e-commerce

Met a random person on a random twitter space and they shared this article which explains the differences between these terms.

I still don’t fully understand why these are important, but now at least I know how to calculate them.

Wrote about the 70 hour work week debate that keeps propping up.

70 hour work week

This topic keeps coming up every 3-4 months.

shobhitic.com/70h-work-week

P.S. Hit me up if you’re looking for a team to build full stack web or mobile apps.