HTLS Day 4 wrap up: Pichai’s future plans, Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Omicron

The fourth day of Hindustan Times Leadership Summit saw renowned personalities take the stage, talking about how ‘The New World

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Speaking with Hindustan Times editor-in-chief R Sukumar, Google and Alphabet Inc CEO Sundar Pichai said that “web 3.0 is early” but there is “considerable excitement around decentralised architecture.” “The internet is, at the end of the day, a community. It's the people driving it forward. As a company, we are always looking to contribute to it,” he added.

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Sundar Pichai said that he sees India as a place where over time, Google will be able to “build things and take it globally.” “The first example of it was Google Pay,” the Google CEO told R Sukumar, editor-in-chief, Hindustan Times.

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During conversation with CNBC-TV18 deputy editor Shruti Mishra, Sequoia Capital MD Rajan Anandan said that it is an “exciting time” currently for Indian startups. “10 years ago, we had zero unicorns…In 2015, we had four unicorns,” he said during the HTLS 2021 where MobiKwin COO and co-founder Upasana Taku was also present.

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MobiKwik co-founder and COO said at HTLS 2021 that the one thing common between private and public markets is the “male-centric ecosystem.”

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In the third session, hotelier and Soneva CEO Sonu Shivdasani told Brunch editor Jamal Sheikh that luxury doesn’t lie in objects but in “what’s rare.” “Fresh air, seeing the full moon, seeing the stars are much more valuable than gold, silver, or platinum. You cannot do that in Bombay, New York, or Delhi,” Shivdasani added.

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