How hard is it to build a startup? Krutrim AI raised 50 million.

A common thought out there is - “VCs invest on person, not on idea”. Here the person has executed 2 startups, so you know why it was easy for him.

End product matters irrespective of fund raised

Everyone wants to bet on the winning horse. It's difficult to raise huge funds unless you have a really good & unique problem and having a startup background, IIT/IIM tag may help

Repeat after me : Raising Money≠Building a company

That guy knows to raise capital, he doesn't know to run a comoany so he hires for the rest