Tarang Vaish (Class of 2005, CTO and co-founder, Granica) and Alexander Seelam (Class of 2025, 2une at Physics Wallah) on what they built at IIT Guwahati, how they recovered after setbacks, and what they’d tell students starting out. When Alexander Seelam went looking for the first customers of his startup, twenty prospects turned him away. He didn’t read the refusals as a verdict on himself or his product. “My timing was bad,” he told himself. He kept going, and the twenty-f

Days after Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-I became India's first private orbital launch, Ashwin Mahavadi, SVP of Growth at Skyroot, came to IIT Guwahati, his alma mater, to talk to students about what it takes to build deep tech, and why the next decade in space looks promising for India. IIT Guwahati hosted Ashwin Mahavadi (BTech, Civil Engineering, Batch of 2009), Senior Vice President, Skyroot Aerospace, for a talk during Orientation Week. This was just days after Skyroot Aero