Verghese Kurien was a social known for Verghese Kurien. This page covers 10 startup ideas inspired by their work, organized by problem and solution.
Verghese Kurien
Gig workers on platforms like delivery apps, ride-sharing, and domestic help services are modern-day dairy farmers circa 1946 — producing all the value while platforms extract 25-40% as middlemen, offering no ownership, no security, no collective bargaining power.
Organize workers who already work these platforms into cooperatives that eventually launch their own technology, owned collectively. The cooperative handles the algorithm, the dispatch, the customer interface. Workers keep 90% instead of 60%. Start in one city, one category — perhaps grocery delivery in Ahmedabad — prove it works, then replicate.