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I quit the startup ecosystem

Shubhransh Rai
5 min readFeb 11, 2025

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“So here’s how the plan goes, you’ve travelled to college right?”

Not really I didn’t go to any college, I self study kinda” I replied

“Okay okay, but an average person has to travel from home to college if they’re a day scholar, right?

Uh yeah makes sense

“So, imagine, an Uber type service solely for Day scholars traveling to their college, we’ll call it Duber Scholars (*name changed), we’ve already made a LinkedIn post about it and thousands of people have already commented “great initiative🙏” under it, I can already feel it, this is about to be a service that would change the landscape of this entire nation, education itself will be revolutionized”

But why can’t the students just take an Uber, an already existing app on their phones?” I asked

“Because this is only for going from home to college, we’re niching down”

Okay but why would anyone want an app that ONLY allows them to go from home to college when they have an app that allows them to go from anywhere to anywhere, including home to college

“Bro just tell me straight up that you don’t have the actual mind to be able to…

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Shubhransh Rai
Shubhransh Rai

Written by Shubhransh Rai

Editor in Chief - Wall Street Gradient || Editor in Chief- Quantum Information Review

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