Nobody is paying these founders to talk. That is the whole point. A handful of founders working out of Silicon Jeri in Manjeri have started their own podcasts, newsletters, and regular posts about what it actually feels like to build a company from a small Kerala...
When a first-time founder at Silicon Jeri gets stuck on a pricing model or a product decision at midnight, many of them do not open a mentor-matching app. They message a professor who taught them a course six or seven years ago. This is not an official program. Nobody...
A 58 year old retired bank manager does not usually share a coworking table with a 24 year old app developer. At Silicon Jeri in Manjeri, that pairing is becoming normal. Most stories about this campus focus on young founders fresh out of college. There is another...
A founder who sold his last company writes a small, quiet check into the startup two doors down. No pitch deck event, no term sheet lawyer flown in, no press release. Just one person who has been in the room before, deciding to back someone who is in it now. That is...
