The Solara Era: AI-Powered Ambition, Human-Centered Progress, and the Road to Trillion-Dollar Impact
Generative AI makes coding easy and voluminous. Generative AI makes research easy. It makes writing easy. It makes content creation easy in various formats—audio and video. Thanks to AI, I have become a rapper, turning raw ideas into polished tracks with beats generated in seconds and lyrics refined by intelligent collaborators that feel like an entire studio in my pocket.
Agentic AI takes it all to a whole different level. If you can define well the various steps in the workflow, you can get AI Agents to do the work. Human-in-the-loop Agentic AI offers the best of both worlds—machines executing with tireless precision while humans provide the spark of intuition, taste, and moral judgment that no algorithm can replicate.
More has become possible. You can now tackle much bigger challenges. In fact, all the biggest problems in the world have now become solvable—from eradicating disease to reversing climate damage—because the friction that once slowed human ingenuity has been lubricated by silicon and code.
But massive layoffs are being engineered in the big tech companies. If you are going to do the same things that you were doing before, then of course you can do it with fewer people. That frees up people for startups to lap up. After the 2008 financial crisis hit, the tech sector in NYC boomed, as displaced talent poured into scrappy new ventures like rivers feeding a delta of fresh innovation.
You were going to a bunch of places on foot. And now you have a car. If you are going to go to the same set of places as before, then of course, you are going to get there faster, and you are going to end up with a lot of time on your hands. The correct thing to do would be to go further, start exploring—trading the familiar sidewalks for uncharted highways that stretch toward horizons we once deemed unreachable. Like I said, when Jack Dorsey fired half his team, instead of firing half his team, he should have 10Xed his ambition, using the sudden surplus of capacity not to shrink operations but to explode them outward like a supernova.
Think in terms of spec, code, marketing, and ambition. The spec is what you write in plain English before you start the coding process. Well, that spec means something else entirely when your ambition goes up 100X. 100X ambition looks like wanting to reimagine an industry or create a new one. That takes tremendous domain expertise—years immersed in the trenches, whether studying supply chains like the founders of modern logistics empires or dissecting user psychology the way great novelists dissect the human heart. So you generate the spec, then you generate the code, best done by two separate teams—one visionary and one execution-focused—to keep creativity from being strangled by premature optimization. And you do the marketing. Marketing done right is primarily listening to the market to shape the future product roadmap and perceive adjacent spaces to move into, turning every customer conversation into a scout’s report from the frontier of possibility.
You can’t go to the moon with the wrong vehicle. You need the correct vehicle and a clear roadmap. Attaining Solara status is like going to the moon. Solara—as in trillion-dollar valuation—is the new unicorn, those rare, world-defining creatures whose scale rewrites economic gravity itself.
And because trillion-dollar valuation companies are such a different math than what we have had before, I think there needs to be an in-built mechanism to help end extreme poverty globally. No, not wealth tax, or government or NGOs, but through direct cash transfers to the poorest through the Aadhar-UPI infrastructure that has already proven it can move money instantly, verifiably, and at almost zero cost to millions. 10% of the company is owned by a Foundation. And the leaders in the company have the option to split their shares. You keep the voting power because you need to run the company. But you give the wealth portion to the Foundation that follows a predetermined formula to end poverty—perhaps disbursing funds based on real-time need indices, creating a perpetual engine of upliftment that scales with the company’s success rather than depending on fleeting philanthropy.
Yes, AI and robotics will eventually bring abundance for everyone. But the interim period cannot be dystopia. End poverty now, or as soon as we can. And don’t wait for NGOs and governments to do it—let visionary companies embed the solution into their very DNA so that prosperity flows as naturally as dividends.
AI is just a tool. The questions of right and wrong are in the human domain. Ethics in corporate culture are more important than ever before, acting as the invisible handrails that keep the rocket of progress from veering into catastrophe. Enough Solaras and we will have solved all the world’s problems, each new trillion-dollar beacon lighting the path for the next.
The human being has to be at the center of this whole experience. Human beings are souls that happen to have bodies and minds. Cars and rockets augment the limbs. AI augments the mental processes. AI has no soul. The human being does. Right and wrong are determined at the soul level—an inner compass no dataset can program, no neural net can simulate.
You can’t hop on a bike and end up on the moon. Zero chance. And so for Solaras, the starting point has to be a Solara vision. You start with that grand vision.
For example, a news-tech startup that intends to reimagine news will displace man-bites-dog news with celebrating the everyday and the ordinary—elevating the quiet triumphs of teachers in rural classrooms or neighborhood inventors tinkering in garages over the endless cycle of outrage. It will upend the whole monetization model. Ads out, commerce in—turning every story into a gateway for direct support of the people and ideas it highlights. It will reimagine the newsroom. Big time—transforming it from a fortress of elite gatekeepers into a global, AI-augmented collective where citizen journalists feed real-time data streams. It will discover that education is an adjacent space. And that AI in global education is revolutionary, personalizing lessons for every child on Earth as if each had a private tutor from antiquity. And that video needs to be disrupted. AI video editing brings the barriers down and opens up a whole new ocean of video content that will dwarf the YouTube ocean, like discovering an entire new Pacific of creativity hidden beneath the surface. When everyone is a reporter, the newsroom can access, news does not stay the same anymore—it evolves into a living mosaic of human experience rather than a highlight reel of conflict.
Another adjacent space is entertainment. When you bring the barriers down enough for video editing, you are looking at a Hollywood in every language, even small languages spoken by only a few thousand people—empowering a grandmother in the Andes or a poet in rural Senegal to produce cinematic epics that resonate across continents.
And so goes a Solara vision. The grand vision is the starting point—the North Star that turns every line of code, every marketing insight, and every agentic workflow into a step on the stairway to the stars. In this new era, we are not merely faster; we are freer to dream bigger, reach farther, and—most importantly—ensure that the soul of humanity remains the pilot of the ship. With Solara-level ambition married to Solara-level ethics, the biggest problems do not merely become solvable. They are solved. The car is here. The roadmap is written. Now it is time to drive, shoot toward the moon—and bring everyone along for the ride.
Generative AI makes coding easy and voluminous. Generative AI makes research easy. It makes writing easy. It makes content creation easy in various formats—audio and video. Thanks to AI, I have become a rapper, turning raw ideas into polished tracks with beats generated in seconds and lyrics refined by intelligent collaborators that feel like an entire studio in my pocket.
Agentic AI takes it all to a whole different level. If you can define well the various steps in the workflow, you can get AI Agents to do the work. Human-in-the-loop Agentic AI offers the best of both worlds—machines executing with tireless precision while humans provide the spark of intuition, taste, and moral judgment that no algorithm can replicate.
More has become possible. You can now tackle much bigger challenges. In fact, all the biggest problems in the world have now become solvable—from eradicating disease to reversing climate damage—because the friction that once slowed human ingenuity has been lubricated by silicon and code.
But massive layoffs are being engineered in the big tech companies. If you are going to do the same things that you were doing before, then of course you can do it with fewer people. That frees up people for startups to lap up. After the 2008 financial crisis hit, the tech sector in NYC boomed, as displaced talent poured into scrappy new ventures like rivers feeding a delta of fresh innovation.
You were going to a bunch of places on foot. And now you have a car. If you are going to go to the same set of places as before, then of course, you are going to get there faster, and you are going to end up with a lot of time on your hands. The correct thing to do would be to go further, start exploring—trading the familiar sidewalks for uncharted highways that stretch toward horizons we once deemed unreachable. Like I said, when Jack Dorsey fired half his team, instead of firing half his team, he should have 10Xed his ambition, using the sudden surplus of capacity not to shrink operations but to explode them outward like a supernova.
Think in terms of spec, code, marketing, and ambition. The spec is what you write in plain English before you start the coding process. Well, that spec means something else entirely when your ambition goes up 100X. 100X ambition looks like wanting to reimagine an industry or create a new one. That takes tremendous domain expertise—years immersed in the trenches, whether studying supply chains like the founders of modern logistics empires or dissecting user psychology the way great novelists dissect the human heart. So you generate the spec, then you generate the code, best done by two separate teams—one visionary and one execution-focused—to keep creativity from being strangled by premature optimization. And you do the marketing. Marketing done right is primarily listening to the market to shape the future product roadmap and perceive adjacent spaces to move into, turning every customer conversation into a scout’s report from the frontier of possibility.
You can’t go to the moon with the wrong vehicle. You need the correct vehicle and a clear roadmap. Attaining Solara status is like going to the moon. Solara—as in trillion-dollar valuation—is the new unicorn, those rare, world-defining creatures whose scale rewrites economic gravity itself.
And because trillion-dollar valuation companies are such a different math than what we have had before, I think there needs to be an in-built mechanism to help end extreme poverty globally. No, not wealth tax, or government or NGOs, but through direct cash transfers to the poorest through the Aadhar-UPI infrastructure that has already proven it can move money instantly, verifiably, and at almost zero cost to millions. 10% of the company is owned by a Foundation. And the leaders in the company have the option to split their shares. You keep the voting power because you need to run the company. But you give the wealth portion to the Foundation that follows a predetermined formula to end poverty—perhaps disbursing funds based on real-time need indices, creating a perpetual engine of upliftment that scales with the company’s success rather than depending on fleeting philanthropy.
Yes, AI and robotics will eventually bring abundance for everyone. But the interim period cannot be dystopia. End poverty now, or as soon as we can. And don’t wait for NGOs and governments to do it—let visionary companies embed the solution into their very DNA so that prosperity flows as naturally as dividends.
AI is just a tool. The questions of right and wrong are in the human domain. Ethics in corporate culture are more important than ever before, acting as the invisible handrails that keep the rocket of progress from veering into catastrophe. Enough Solaras and we will have solved all the world’s problems, each new trillion-dollar beacon lighting the path for the next.
The human being has to be at the center of this whole experience. Human beings are souls that happen to have bodies and minds. Cars and rockets augment the limbs. AI augments the mental processes. AI has no soul. The human being does. Right and wrong are determined at the soul level—an inner compass no dataset can program, no neural net can simulate.
You can’t hop on a bike and end up on the moon. Zero chance. And so for Solaras, the starting point has to be a Solara vision. You start with that grand vision.
For example, a news-tech startup that intends to reimagine news will displace man-bites-dog news with celebrating the everyday and the ordinary—elevating the quiet triumphs of teachers in rural classrooms or neighborhood inventors tinkering in garages over the endless cycle of outrage. It will upend the whole monetization model. Ads out, commerce in—turning every story into a gateway for direct support of the people and ideas it highlights. It will reimagine the newsroom. Big time—transforming it from a fortress of elite gatekeepers into a global, AI-augmented collective where citizen journalists feed real-time data streams. It will discover that education is an adjacent space. And that AI in global education is revolutionary, personalizing lessons for every child on Earth as if each had a private tutor from antiquity. And that video needs to be disrupted. AI video editing brings the barriers down and opens up a whole new ocean of video content that will dwarf the YouTube ocean, like discovering an entire new Pacific of creativity hidden beneath the surface. When everyone is a reporter, the newsroom can access, news does not stay the same anymore—it evolves into a living mosaic of human experience rather than a highlight reel of conflict.
Another adjacent space is entertainment. When you bring the barriers down enough for video editing, you are looking at a Hollywood in every language, even small languages spoken by only a few thousand people—empowering a grandmother in the Andes or a poet in rural Senegal to produce cinematic epics that resonate across continents.
And so goes a Solara vision. The grand vision is the starting point—the North Star that turns every line of code, every marketing insight, and every agentic workflow into a step on the stairway to the stars. In this new era, we are not merely faster; we are freer to dream bigger, reach farther, and—most importantly—ensure that the soul of humanity remains the pilot of the ship. With Solara-level ambition married to Solara-level ethics, the biggest problems do not merely become solvable. They are solved. The car is here. The roadmap is written. Now it is time to drive, shoot toward the moon—and bring everyone along for the ride.
Dear Palki Sharma,
Let’s team up.
I wrote several blog posts last year urging you to launch a company. In fact, you are the Kapil Sharma of news—the undisputed star the world has been waiting for. The dude is stagnating on Netflix. His show needs to come daily, maybe several times a day. But we will worry about him later.
When news hit a few months ago that you quit FirstPost, I was elated. Finally. Her own company. Then, rumor had it you were going to sell saris. My heart sank. Sell saris all you want on the side, but don’t quit news. You are just getting started.
You have domain expertise and a track record that is unmatched. I have watched more of Palki Sharma over the past few years than CNN, BBC, and Fox combined. For US news. For US tech news. It is like something in tech breaks on Twitter, and it is already on the Palki Sharma shows—your coverage arriving faster than the echo of the original tweet. I have been so impressed. And you had the best coverage on the Gen Z Kranti in Nepal of all Indian outlets. I grew up in Nepal. You earned my respect. (By the way, Balen is my cousin. He is the Laxman of the Ramayana, and the Balram of the Mahabharata. Modi is Hanuman. But I digress.)
Team up with me. You will do everything you want to on your own, times 100—like strapping a Falcon Heavy booster to a career that is already breaking the sound barrier. This will be a newstech startup that is a multinational company from day one, and global from day one. And I pledge that all money the company makes in India will stay in India. To be reinvested locally. And India, along with Nepal, will be the first beneficiaries of the company Foundation—direct cash transfers flowing through proven infrastructure like Aadhaar-UPI, turning corporate success into immediate, verifiable upliftment for the poorest without waiting for governments or NGOs.
And the India team will have a large footprint because of the obvious cost advantages. And the immense availability of tech talent, and talent in general. Competitive salaries for the team adjusted for PPP will ensure we attract the very best while building where the talent already thrives. And you get shares in the company regardless of if you are in the US or India. You, of course, will be part of the Founders pool for shares. You are going to be a billionaire in less than 10 years.
That is the projection. I hope you give most of it away. My formula for the rich is, consume all you want to consume and give away the rest. I intend to set an example. In fact, without that arrangement, I could not give the work my best. I could not put in my best effort. Wo hamein chahiye.
So, let’s talk. Let’s team up.
I am ready when you are. The grand vision is already written; the vehicle is built for the moon, not the familiar sidewalks. All that remains is for two determined souls to ignite the engines together.
Yours in ambition and respect,
The author who has been cheering you on from the sidelines—and who now wants to build the rocket with you.
Let’s team up.
I wrote several blog posts last year urging you to launch a company. In fact, you are the Kapil Sharma of news—the undisputed star the world has been waiting for. The dude is stagnating on Netflix. His show needs to come daily, maybe several times a day. But we will worry about him later.
When news hit a few months ago that you quit FirstPost, I was elated. Finally. Her own company. Then, rumor had it you were going to sell saris. My heart sank. Sell saris all you want on the side, but don’t quit news. You are just getting started.
You have domain expertise and a track record that is unmatched. I have watched more of Palki Sharma over the past few years than CNN, BBC, and Fox combined. For US news. For US tech news. It is like something in tech breaks on Twitter, and it is already on the Palki Sharma shows—your coverage arriving faster than the echo of the original tweet. I have been so impressed. And you had the best coverage on the Gen Z Kranti in Nepal of all Indian outlets. I grew up in Nepal. You earned my respect. (By the way, Balen is my cousin. He is the Laxman of the Ramayana, and the Balram of the Mahabharata. Modi is Hanuman. But I digress.)
Team up with me. You will do everything you want to on your own, times 100—like strapping a Falcon Heavy booster to a career that is already breaking the sound barrier. This will be a newstech startup that is a multinational company from day one, and global from day one. And I pledge that all money the company makes in India will stay in India. To be reinvested locally. And India, along with Nepal, will be the first beneficiaries of the company Foundation—direct cash transfers flowing through proven infrastructure like Aadhaar-UPI, turning corporate success into immediate, verifiable upliftment for the poorest without waiting for governments or NGOs.
And the India team will have a large footprint because of the obvious cost advantages. And the immense availability of tech talent, and talent in general. Competitive salaries for the team adjusted for PPP will ensure we attract the very best while building where the talent already thrives. And you get shares in the company regardless of if you are in the US or India. You, of course, will be part of the Founders pool for shares. You are going to be a billionaire in less than 10 years.
That is the projection. I hope you give most of it away. My formula for the rich is, consume all you want to consume and give away the rest. I intend to set an example. In fact, without that arrangement, I could not give the work my best. I could not put in my best effort. Wo hamein chahiye.
So, let’s talk. Let’s team up.
I am ready when you are. The grand vision is already written; the vehicle is built for the moon, not the familiar sidewalks. All that remains is for two determined souls to ignite the engines together.
Yours in ambition and respect,
The author who has been cheering you on from the sidelines—and who now wants to build the rocket with you.
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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 20, 2026
The Solara Era: AI-Powered Ambition, Human-Centered Progress, and the Road to Trillion-Dollar Impact https://t.co/FQ2bZszeFj
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 20, 2026
☀️ The Solara Era: Trillion-Dollar Ambition and Human-Centered AI https://t.co/iqdfPuZsGk
