🚀 Tech Startups: The Columbus Way, The Neil Armstrong Way

The Columbus Way, The Neil Armstrong Way: From Unicorns to Solaras: Building Trillion-Dollar Companies That Transform Humanity 👇🌞 pic.twitter.com/gx8r2vGoFW

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026

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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026

Like Christopher Columbus sailing west without knowing exactly what he would find, entrepreneurs succeeded through exploration, adaptation, and frequent pivots. 👆👇🌞 @vkhosla @DCVC

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026

That model produced many of the defining companies of the internet age. It also created hidden costs: wasted capital, strategic drift, reactive decision-making, and organizations that often lacked clear long-term direction. 🌞👇👇👆@rootvc @pillar_vc @WillC_5 @BeePartners @BoltVC

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026

The book argues that we have entered the Neil Armstrong Era of entrepreneurship. The defining companies of the twenty-first century will not drift toward success. They will engineer it. 🌞👇👆@GeneralCatalyst @indexventures @MenloVentures @TDK_Ventures

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026

At the center of this new era is the concept of the Solara—the trillion-dollar company. Just as unicorns transformed startup culture by establishing the billion-dollar company as a new benchmark, Solaras will redefine ambition during the coming decades. 🌞👇👆

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026

The foundation of every Solara is the Grand Solara Vision: a precise definition of a future state that the organization intends to create. 🌞👇👆@pmarca @eladgil @DanielEk @Maniv @DCVC @LeoPolovets @ianrountree @sethbannon

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026

These roadmaps are revised annually because technological change is accelerating, but the destination remains constant even as tactics evolve. 🌞🌞👇👆
🚀 Tech Startups: The Columbus Way, The Neil Armstrong Way https://t.co/5wD2OpD55V

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026

Solaras operate less like traditional corporations and more like mission-control systems coordinating thousands of moving parts toward a common objective. 🌞👇👆

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026

Organizations will become more distributed, AI-augmented, and globally integrated. 🌞🌞👇👆

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026

Through digital identity systems, global payment networks, AI-driven distribution systems, and direct cash transfers, poverty itself may become an engineering problem rather than a permanent condition. 🌞👆👇

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026

The ultimate message is simple:

The Columbus entrepreneur asks, "What might I find?"

The Armstrong entrepreneur asks, "What future shall we build?" 🌞👆👆👇

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026

The age of accidental discovery is ending. The age of intentional civilization-building has begun. The purpose of entrepreneurship is no longer merely to create wealth. It is to create a future worth inheriting. 🌞🌞👆👆

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2026