How did recruiting formula student race-car engineers give Ather an early operational advantage?

We deliberately recruited passionate student engineers who had built race cars in collegiate Formula Student competitions. For these young engineers, joining Ather meant continuing to build cutting-edge physical vehicles in state-of-the-art facilities while earning a salary. Their passion generated near-zero employee attrition across our first four hundred hires, giving us the cultural stamina to endure grueling hardware development cycles.