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The DPS RK Puram mafia is real. Kunal Bahl. Aman Gupta. Karan Goel. A pipeline of operators who somehow keep building outsized companies. Today, it's him with $81M raised at $700M for Wispr Flow. I spoke to some of his juniors at DPS RKP, and what I learned is crazy. Tanay was a star well before Wispr ever happened. At 16, he won bronze at International Olympiad in Informatics, 2nd in India at International Linguistics Olympiad, perfect 36/36 ACT. By Stanford, he'd built 50+ apps. He built FeatherX at Stanford and sold it to Cerebra. But his vision for voice AI dates way back. He been building voice AI since he was 10. That's seventeen years on one problem. I wrote a 4chan style post on Tanay (in the first comment) but there's more to unpack here beyond Tanay's genius. Voice and AI assistants are already a rocket ship. The global voice AI market was ~$7.35 billion in 2024 and the general AI assistant market is poised to hit $73.8 billion by 2033. These numbers represent a thesis -> even if Wispr captures a sliver of the pie, it is already sitting at a billion-dollar opportunity... at minimum. Now, consider this. Wispr is a habit-forming product. The fascinating part isn’t the funding. It’s the behavior shift. People who think Wispr is “another dictation app" missed the point. Microsoft and Google shipped dictation apps for a decade. Apple bundled it into mac and iOS for free. Still, nobody used it. Why? Because they get to 85-90% accuracy. 90% accuracy means you're editing almost every sentence you speak. That's frustrating. Wispr got 97.2% accuracy and baked in the context about who YOU are. It types "Bryan" not "Brian" based on your contacts. The tone shifts from casual in Slack to formal in email. After 3 months, users type 50% of their content via voice. After 6 months it's 72%. What really gets me excited is where Tanay is steering this. In interviews I watched, he kept emphasizing that Wispr’s goal isn’t just transcription > it’s true understanding. He talks about building an assistant that “doesn’t just listen, but acts.” Now layer on the Android launch. That's where it gets asymmetric. Until today, Wispr hadn't even scratched the Android user market - 54.6% of global mobile users. Their custom-built Hinglish model is ripe for adoption by 600 million+ users in India itself. While other SaaS companies spend around $702/user, Wispr is growing 90% word-of-mouth. That's as massive as it gets for a habit-forming tool at $12/month. This potentially makes Wispr a default input layer for emerging markets. The DPS RKP mafia joke is funny. But zoom out. A kid obsessed with building Jarvis. Stanford AI background. Multiple startups before 25. Patience to work on a single problem long enough. Now building a company that might redefine how people interact with computers. If voice becomes default over the next decade, Wispr won't be "a startup." It'll be infrastructure. And if that happens, we'll look back at this phase — sub-unicorn, sub-100 employees — and realize the signals were obvious. Tanay now plays in the same leagues as the other legends from DPS RKP - Raghuram Rajan. Vineeta Singh. Kunal Bahl. Rohit Bansal. Some people peak in school. Some people just start there. That's DPS RKP mafia for you.