Proposal to full deployment in 2 weeks: founder says Asia's AI adoption puts slow US firms to shame
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-09-23
Founder Ashwin Gop recounts building a "company brain" (unified data substrate) for a public company in India in just two weeks from proposal to full deployment. He argues American companies are too slow, bloated, and process-obsessed, while Asian firms skip the task forces and "AI exploration" — a founder says yes on Tuesday and it's in prod on Thursday.
His thesis: Asia is pulling away in AI not because its models are better but because of attitude — real hunger versus performative tokenmaxxing. For companies without a common data substrate, he says it's no longer a technology problem but a philosophy problem.
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