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There's a specific kind of gut punch that comes from building something that works and still hearing it isn't enough. You've put in the hours, the product runs, and someone smart looks at it and asks who exactly needs this. It stings because the problem was never your effort.
On this week's Hello Chaos, Jennifer Sutton sits down with Yasith Vidanaarachchi, cofounder and CTO of Quantuma. Yasith spent years engineering at Google, Meta, and Amazon before going all in on his own company, where he's building AI for financial firms that can't send sensitive data to tools like ChatGPT.
His first big lesson came early, when Y Combinator told him a good technical product isn't a business. Instead of getting defensive, he went looking for more hard feedback. He talks to customers constantly, messages strangers on LinkedIn knowing most won't answer, and has learned to scrap work that isn't leading anywhere. A 16-week accelerator and a demo day in front of 500 investors pushed him to sharpen his story. And he did all of it as a self-described introvert.
If you've been heads down building and quietly avoiding the conversations that might sting, this one is for you. The feedback you dread is usually the fastest route to the right problem. Ask yourself what you've been protecting by not asking.
Founders rarely get stuck because the truth was too hard to hear. They get stuck because they waited too long to hear it.
Listen now to hear how Yasith is turning chaos into a business that matters.
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AI Won’t Replace Ranchers. But It Will Change Who Wins.
AI can analyse data.
AI can generate recommendations.
But someone still has to make things happen in the real world.
DIT AgTech combines hardware, AI, nutrition automation and real-time data to turn intelligence into action across livestock operations.
It gives ranchers technology that works alongside them, automating supplementation and helping them produce more with less.
That's Physical AI.
And it's already operating in the real world, across 500+ deployed units and 370,000 head of livestock on the platform.
As AI moves from screens into the physical economy, DIT AgTech is building the infrastructure for it in livestock production.
And the market is massive.
Livestock is still one of the world's least automated major industries. The race to bring Physical AI to it has barely begun.
Be one of the first to see where this is going.
𝘐𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥. 𝘋𝘐𝘛 𝘈𝘨𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘊 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘹𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦: https://bit.ly/4bzuWCi
