India, Feb. 26 -- An Indian co-founder has opened up about why he chose to drop out of college at 22 to build a biotech startup in Singapore, saying "naivety is a superpower" when it comes to deep tech innovation.

Armaan Dhanda is the co-founder of Anomaly Bio, a Singapore-based company that engineers microbes into "micro-factories" to rebuild global ingredient supply chains. In a post on X, he summed up his unconventional journey. He shared that he spent a year at St. Stephen's College before dropping out. He then interned at IIT Bombay and MIT, secured $120,000 in non-dilutive funding, completed three years of chemical engineering at NUS, raised $2.6 million for Anomaly Bio and then left college once again to pursue the startup full-ti...