When IITians Abhay Singh and Amit Kumar found they were hopping from one job to another every year or so, it led to some introspection. It wasn't that they didn't enjoy what they did. The IIT-Bombay graduates had worked in robotics and automation since their college days and continued doing that in their work life. It also wasn't that the jobs were not lucrative. And yet, there was something that didn't quite work.
"We were always happy building stuff, but despite that, we were quitting our jobs every 12 months, and the idea was we don't want to do that," says Singh. Trying to understand why they were restless, the two concluded that they were working on jobs or projects that were temporary in nature whereas, "we both wanted to build something that would last for decades, if not centuries. That is the core, that feeling was missing", he adds.