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Moonshots and Marathons | An Unfiltered Playbook for Founders Building the Impossible

Moonshots and Marathons | An Unfiltered Playbook for Founders Building the Impossible

Chirag Gupta
,
Govind Kedia
,
Sunil K. Shekhawat
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They told you to hustle. They forgot to tell you how to survive.

DeepTech isn’t a sprint. It’s years in the lab before a single sale. It’s moonshot ambition colliding with marathon endurance. It’s investors who want speed and a mission that can’t be rushed.
Moonshots and Marathons is the unfiltered playbook for founders building the impossible—satellites, AI breakthroughs, climate solutions, life-saving biotech.

Three insiders who’ve invested in, scaled, and advised hundreds of DeepTech companies reveal the real rules: how to choose battles, protect your IP, survive the ‘valleys of death’, and exit without selling your soul.

If your ideas could change the world, this is the book that shows you how to last long enough to make it happen.

Imprint: India Penguin Enterprise

Published: Dec/2025

ISBN: 9780143478829

Length : 320 Pages

MRP : ₹699.00

Moonshots and Marathons | An Unfiltered Playbook for Founders Building the Impossible

Chirag Gupta
,
Govind Kedia
,
Sunil K. Shekhawat

They told you to hustle. They forgot to tell you how to survive.

DeepTech isn’t a sprint. It’s years in the lab before a single sale. It’s moonshot ambition colliding with marathon endurance. It’s investors who want speed and a mission that can’t be rushed.
Moonshots and Marathons is the unfiltered playbook for founders building the impossible—satellites, AI breakthroughs, climate solutions, life-saving biotech.

Three insiders who’ve invested in, scaled, and advised hundreds of DeepTech companies reveal the real rules: how to choose battles, protect your IP, survive the ‘valleys of death’, and exit without selling your soul.

If your ideas could change the world, this is the book that shows you how to last long enough to make it happen.

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Paperback / Hardback

Chirag Gupta

Chirag Gupta is the managing partner at 8X Ventures, a DeepTech-focused venture capital firm investing in companies solving complex, real-world problems through technological innovation. Prior to founding 8X, Chirag held leadership roles at 500 Global, Careem, McKinsey, Strategy&, and Korn Ferry—building deep operational and investment insight across emerging and global markets.

Govind Kedia

Govind Kedia is managing director at Arctic Invent and director at Basck UK, where he has helped build and manage over 10,000 IP assets and secure more than 2,500 patents globally. With 15+ years of experience, he brings a rare blend of technical depth and strategic clarity to startups navigating IP, scale, and value creation.

Sunil K. Shekhawat

Sunil K. Shekhawat is the co-founder and CEO of SanchiConnect, India’s leading DeepTech ecosystem platform. Over the past decade, he has played a pivotal role in shaping India’s startup landscape through leadership positions at NASSCOM, where he led multiple national initiatives connecting Indian startups with global investors, product mentors, and corporate partners.

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