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Startup Fridays Season 2 Ep. 7: My hope is, entrepreneurs even crazier than us will rise and build for India — Rohan Verma
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Our guest today is Rohan Verma, CEO and executive director at MapmyIndia, a Mumbai-listed company in the areas of digital mapping, geospatial technologies and automotive mobility technologies. In this episode, Rohan talks about why he is optimistic that a serious tech product ecosystem will emerge in India over the next five years. He also hopes that entrepreneurs with foresight will rise and make India self-reliant for the crucial underlying infrastructure as well.
Notes:
(00:47) Introduction to The Startup Fridays conversation
(01:12) Our guest today — Rohan Verma, CEO and ED, MapmyIndia
(02:32) On how MapmyIndia was started
(04:31) Early applications and use cases
(07:10) A couple of important milestones
(09:02) Challenges in the early years of the company
(11:36) Flagship products and platform of MapmyIndia today
(14:01) The direction in which the company is growing
(15:54) More on the tech — what’s at the heart of MapmyIndia
(18:17) Emerging use cases for location technologies
(20:48) MapmyIndia for consumers
(23:09) The toughest obstacles in building a tech product company in India
(25:47) No centre in Silicon Valley — passionate about India
(27:38) Biggest lessons
(29:39) How being a public company’s CEO is different
(31:36) What did Rohan have to unlearn
(33:41) What should India do to build up its tech products ecosystem
(37:25) Liberalisation of geospatial data policies in India — significance
(41:38) What worries Rohan about India’s tech scene
(44:39) Examples of crucial underlying building blocks in the tech industry that India must build its own
(46:58) Rapid fire questions
More about Rohan and MapmyIndia
Theme music courtesy Twisterium
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Manage episode 335147797 series 3373965
Our guest today is Rohan Verma, CEO and executive director at MapmyIndia, a Mumbai-listed company in the areas of digital mapping, geospatial technologies and automotive mobility technologies. In this episode, Rohan talks about why he is optimistic that a serious tech product ecosystem will emerge in India over the next five years. He also hopes that entrepreneurs with foresight will rise and make India self-reliant for the crucial underlying infrastructure as well.
Notes:
(00:47) Introduction to The Startup Fridays conversation
(01:12) Our guest today — Rohan Verma, CEO and ED, MapmyIndia
(02:32) On how MapmyIndia was started
(04:31) Early applications and use cases
(07:10) A couple of important milestones
(09:02) Challenges in the early years of the company
(11:36) Flagship products and platform of MapmyIndia today
(14:01) The direction in which the company is growing
(15:54) More on the tech — what’s at the heart of MapmyIndia
(18:17) Emerging use cases for location technologies
(20:48) MapmyIndia for consumers
(23:09) The toughest obstacles in building a tech product company in India
(25:47) No centre in Silicon Valley — passionate about India
(27:38) Biggest lessons
(29:39) How being a public company’s CEO is different
(31:36) What did Rohan have to unlearn
(33:41) What should India do to build up its tech products ecosystem
(37:25) Liberalisation of geospatial data policies in India — significance
(41:38) What worries Rohan about India’s tech scene
(44:39) Examples of crucial underlying building blocks in the tech industry that India must build its own
(46:58) Rapid fire questions
More about Rohan and MapmyIndia
Theme music courtesy Twisterium
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