5 trn economy, which sectors will benefit in startups and stock markets

The US is in its late stage capitalist phase, a ship that's going to sink for the next 50 years. If you're a young person there it doesn't make sense to work as hard as your Grandpa the reward on average isn't as great. India on the other hand is poised to become a great multi-trillion $ economy. Onto something huge. We're talking like 10x growth of the economy here. Start-ups that have made it like Razorpay, Swiggy, PayTM, even Cred, if they survive will be really huge as capital in the country, liquidity and lifestyles go up over the next 50 years. Be the capitalist, take the risks, make bets, work and stack up promotions and money. Don't join an Infosys and work 70 hours there, do it for a start up of any scale you believe is going to make it. Or better yet start your own.

What problems would Indian and Global startups be solving in the next decade, or they would be just throwing random yearly new buzz words and as usual VCs would be having orgasms on these buzz words. I mean real problems.

Absolutely sad to see the state of the startups, most of them. I am a founder myself, and this is a post with equal disappointment with myself as much as it is for anyone else who relates. Look at all these companies that have raised shit tons of capital, and now make a fraction of money that has been invested in them. The raised money is spent on outsized, non business sense making acquisition costs, only to keep repeating it till the tap runs dry. Then when all stakeholders get bored, the service quality plummets, the employees are fired and whole sectors are admonished as being bad. But, my question is, which sector where large sums of money was invested in early days have come out with flying colours. Fucking nothing ! Edtech, proptech, agritech, ecommerce etc. etc. etc. kuch bhi nahi. Is there any sector where a startup which has raised in the 100s of millions in the first 5 years have actually built a sustainable business at any scale ? Then scaling down, isse acha, scale slowly. The worst part of this whole drama, is pushing the innovation wheel backward and destroying customer sentiment. Isse acha, raise less money inititally, build slowly, and only scale when the market is ready. Artifical growth makes no sense, unless you have a treasure chest that shall never run out. Even in that case, spend the money on assets and not on random acquisition costs, direct or indirect. As founders, let's do better, nahi ?

We all know that majority of analysts and experts are optimistic of Indian Economy. It will be going to be the 10 trillion dollar economy by 2030 as per most. So we can make good amount of money in long term ( 15-20 years ). I am also investing in stock market ( majorly in index funds and self analysed stocks ). Also seeing current developments myself too optimistic about this. Prediction is if BJP wins this election will boost the market. But my concern is what if BJP have done huge scam internally which is unknown due to huge control over government currently. And what if that scam bubble break one day. Isn’t this going to make our long term investment to go negative and loose most investments. Even though I have soft corner on BJP, by seeing only ED raids on non-bjp politicians, if non-bjp person joins BJP his scams are waived off. I think this might have given huge advantage to some cunning MLAs and MPs of bjp and they might have done huge scams and one day it may break. It’s my thoughts. What all you think? Is there any scam bubble in progress?

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Market has been expensive of late. Which companies are you most bullish on in 5-7 years (Thought process - Might be expensive today but conviction of at least 3x from here in 5-7 years).

My first thought is that, inflation adjusted returns will soon become lucrative for investors as some amount of capital returns to VC Funds. Any other thoughts/differing PoVs?

Does B2B E-commerce have a future in India? No one has been able to crack the business model yet and many big names have scaled back. Does anyone know a profitable company in this segment? How risky it is to join a startup in this space?