Every Problem is an Opportunity
hello everyone
i am dt biswas i am ceo and co-founder
of ponto
so i am an entrepreneur beside this
identity i am also an engineer
i have completed my graduation from iit
guwahati
in 2016. after that i had done two
startups first one was in solar power
segment
i have installed seven and a half
megawatt one gate power plant
after that i have completed 92 schools
on rooftop solar now i am working
with this pointo for last smell and fast
mild connectivity by
electric three-wheelers and two-wheelers
so today
i am here to talk about our journey
uh how we have developed our idea and
from where
we have started so why did i get into
entrepreneurship
since childhood i have taken every
problem as an opportunity
i come from a very small town where most
people who had daily wages labor my dad
was a driver in the army and when he
left army he was suffering from tv
we had a joint family at that time but
but after his retirement
few members of the family dubed him of
all his life savings
and separated us from the joint family i
was very young at that time
and our family had no money we didn’t
have a house to stay
and there are rumors too that my dad
had aids instead of tv since my dad was
ill
my mother started working hard to run
the family
those were the toughest days we have
survived
now my dad runs a real estate company
from having no house
to building homes for more than 100
families we have come
long away and in this journey one thing
that i have learned from my parents who
are also my inspiration
is to take every problem as an
opportunity
so when i got into iit understood
how solving problems can also create a
business so the first problem
that i could find
so this problem need to be solved then
we launched
loader to solve this problem which was
an e-buy cycle for campus transportation
and with this model we got offer from
different iits and united’s also
then we started planning to launch this
service in cities and we found out
in our survey that more than 70 percent
of daily commuters
are under seven kilometer we knew that
to make any significant change we needed
to work
with this very segment but we are unable
to deploy
this e-bikes in cities due to security
issue and a number of
other factors also there are a lot of
three-wheeler rickshaws
that are trying to solve this the same
problem but they were very unorganized
leading to customers dissatisfaction so
just like we solved the commute problem
with e-bikes we decided to solve the
commute problem in cities
by aggregating and organizing available
three wheelers
through technology but again we
encountered
a new problem most of this vehicle were
fuel powered a data by main
suggested that more than 40 percent of
the total pollution
is caused by vehicles we are very clear
on that
one thing that will not choose a path to
add
more to existing pollution because this
climate change is real
i hope everyone should be concerned
about that
i will just share a small observation
that
shows how real this problem is when we
used to visit beaches
during our childhood the shops located
at the beaches
very far from the show and now when we
visit those the same beaches we notice
that
the shops have come nearer to the show
it is not that shops that have moved it
is the water level that has increased
which makes this look like the shops
have moved closer to the show
this small observation will tell you
that
the climate change is real and we need
to do something about it
we don’t have much time so we should
focus on that the same concern so at
that time we finally decided
to solve this last mile connectivity
issue by electric three wheelers
which will be affordable for daily
commuters and will be
environment friendly and will create a
large impact in the society
from there oil was born now we are
working with
1100 electric three wheelers which has
helped the localites to transport
emergency items during lockdown also
users
are getting e-ratios from home in a
single fleet
and last but not the least divers
are getting a predictable earning by
accessing multiple source of income
so one thing is clear for the perfect
idea
or a perfect product we need to face
multiple iterations
multiple failures and multiple
innovation solid innovative solutions
at last i want to share one thing with
all
entrepreneurs and budding entrepreneurs
that india is a big market
to start a startup since we have more
people
we have more problems that needs more
solution
if you think big and decided to do big
your location or family background will
never be a restriction
every time and every place is good to
start
maybe some places have better
accessibility and some don’t have
but if you have a strong wish there have
always suffered
never take a shortcut try to find your
faults
never repeat and everything modified
your solution
according to the demand always remind in
a startup
we should make solution for users not
users for the solution
hope more successful startup will come
i’d like to
end with just one statement don’t be
afraid of problems problems are the big
opportunities thank you so much to
united
killer for inviting me and giving me
this platform to share my thoughts and
share my
whole journey thank you so much