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Google may have been founded in a garage (not really actually given all the work that was done at Stanford by the founders prior ) but that is NOT why Alphabet is a multi-million dollar company today. It's not the circumstances of a company's birth that matter.
Instead, it's what the company brings to market that counts. Alphabet isn't the behemoth it is because of it's humble beginnings. It is one because the Google search engine was superior in every way to the existing search engines (Excite, Altavista etc)
The same goes for every great company hatched in a garage or dorm room. They come up with products/services that the market finds irresistible. Then their funding/revenues/valuation soars till they're able to spend a few billions on R&D and soar even higher.
Now here's the thing- the market is pretty unsentimental and unforgiving. Many businesses hatched in garages passed on to business heaven with little fanfare. Similarly, big businesses have been brought to their knees when the market seems their products no longer worthy (Nokia?)
And so - in this day and age, if you're looking to bringing a new product to market, you MUST make sure it has a unique selling point (preferably hard to copy) that the market will fall in love with. It could be it's design or functions/features or pricing etc.
Or it could be something intangible like ease-of-use or the convenience users experience when they use it. Whatever it is, it has to better than or at least equivalent to the competition.
So let us talk about cars. The industry Kiira Motors has decided to take on. The only "successful" new mass market car maker in the US in decades (the world's largest automobile market during this time) is @Tesla. Why is it succeeding where others floundered? Quite simple -
The rest that failed didn't bring anything sufficiently novel enough to the market. They were competing against GM, Ford, Chrysler and the European/Japanese manufacturers at a game the incumbents had mastered perfectly but without any differentiator. They got annihilated.
Tesla on the other hand brought a novel power train (fully electric), free charging points (for life), astonishing interior UI/UX (touch screen with no physical controls) and equally amazing software (that is then updated regularly over the air).
All this was powered by the kind of amazing brain power one get in Silicon Valley. But on top of this, they introduced radical, disruptive sales strategies (direct sales eschewing the hallowed dealership tradition) and they were/are being fronted by a great showman - Musk
Doesn't hurt that they were able to attract billions (with a b) of dollars in funding and that customers kn many markets had government incentives to go electric. All these ingredients are essentially what's made Tesla the household name it is today.
Astonishingly, despite all this, Tesla isn't out of the woods yet. Over the years, the company has haemorrhaged cash as they recorded losses after losses. It is a TOUGH, UNFORGIVING market, remember?
All this brings me to the Kiira EV that we're being accused of beimg negative about. We're not negative. We just happen to know a little bit about this industry and what it takes to succeed in it and we're simply being honest.
Does our "innovative" car bring anything new to the table in terms of design, performance, power train or safety technology? Nop. Will the company raise enough money to set up the kind of facility that will churn out thousands of cars per week? Nop.
Does the government have any standards that a car manufacturer must comply with (safety, design, emissions etc)? Nop. Most importantly, has the company shown any sign it has what it takes to compete on the world market? Any strategic alliances? Appropriate supply chain? And so on
It is all very good trying to bootstrap ourselves into the ranks of industrialized nations. But I'm afraid it will take a lot more than throwing a few billions (shillings) at garage-born entities...
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