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Naman Pushp
Founder, Airbound
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Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Naman Pushp (Founder, Airbound) talking, from an interview on Core Memory published Nov 4, 2026.
What Naman Pushp said
He's Taking On Amazon With A New Kind Of Aircraft
8 moments · 35 min
- 1:14:11
Carbon fiber needs its own manufacturing methods Pro pick
“So what we are doing is we are getting into this arduous journey of figuring out the zero to one of manufacturing with carbon fiber”
at 1:17:07 - 17:45
Drone delivery competition comes down to unit economics
“But when it comes to efficiency, that's not the case. Unit economics are something that continuously matter.”
at 19:48 - 53:46
Venture capital is fueling India’s hardware startups
“The reality is that deep tech cannot exist without venture.”
at 54:02 - 14:18
Airbound designs for payload volume, not just weight
“So I think one of the main differences in our approach is that we realized weight alone is not the issue.”
at 15:08 - 41:02
Pushp sees India as a better base for Airbound
“I think India is the better place to build this tech.”
at 42:04 - 1:04:29
Pushp says assertive government sped up Indian reforms
“I think that India as a country needed very, very dramatic change and it needed that change very quickly.”
at 1:05:57 - 1:07:45
India could combine innovation with mass manufacturing
“I think I see US as like the innovation hub and China as the manufacturing hub. And like India can be that melding of the two”
at 1:12:20 - 1:21:38
Airbound treats manufacturing as its core scaling challenge
“They think that, hey, I've made one, how difficult could making 10 be?”
at 1:23:39
- 1:14:11