Is Ratan Tata really just a call away? Start-up founder Aditi Bhosale tells Brut about her first meeting with the man himself. 🤙🏽
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00:00This is me standing next to Ratan Tata sir, and here's how I managed to reach here.
00:18We got a call from a landline and my voice was already shaking and I
00:22person said this is Ratan Tata here and I received your letter.
00:39Repos is a platform where you know you the way you order food, the way you order
00:45so this is a platform which enables you to order energy at your doorstep.
00:49We both wrote down names who's our role model and the first person that popped in our
01:15both's mind and the first name was Mr. Ratan Tata.
01:26The entire idea was can we take this entire mobile energy distribution to across the globe
01:34and can we make sure at least in India every person in the last mile has an access to energy.
01:45It's like a model which weighed around 15 kgs.
01:58I would recommend everyone not to try this. I feel he has to put more barricades outside his house now.
02:07We wrote letters you know with drawing and colors that how we want to change the
02:11entire energy distribution of the country and we managed to send it to him and it reached to him.
02:18The letter the call to action was so we need your 15 minutes and I'm waiting right outside
02:24your house if you feel that this idea could transform our country we need your 15 minutes.
02:29And the first thing he said that I'm extremely sorry it said that you're waiting outside my
02:42house I got the letter in the morning are you still waiting and I'm so sorry I had to make you wait.
02:47I think that was we felt that we have done everything in life.
02:5915 minutes meeting turned into three four hours of discussion
03:03where he guided us on how we should make these mobile fuel stations
03:07how we should consider the safety of it the technology of it.
03:11In 2018 we made the first mobile fuel station we took outside his house
03:16we called him outside we showed him.
03:19He told Chetan you pick it from one end and I will pick it from one end.
03:46How can a person be so grounded and I cannot explain in words but
03:52it's what people call meditation as it is it is silence with him.
03:56You have to observe him and we absorbed every bit of what we could.