యంగ్ ఎంటర్‌ప్రెన్యూర్స్ వస్తే భారత్ గొప్పగా ఎదుగుతుంది: : కణ్వాల్ రేఖీ

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The Ground Breaker Book was Launched by TiE Co Founder Dr.Kanwal Rekhi : భారత్ ఆర్థికంగా బలంగా తయారవుతోందని TiE‍ (టై‌) కో ఫౌండర్ డాక్టర్‌ కణ్వాల్ రేఖీ అన్నారు. తన జీవితంలోని వివిధ దశలకు సంబంధించి తాను రాసిన పుస్తకం ది గ్రౌండ్ బ్రేకర్‌ (The Ground Breaker)ను ఈరోజు హైదరాబాద్‌ సత్వా నాలెడ్జ్‌ సిటీలో ఆవిష్కరించారు. యంగ్ ఎంటర్‌ప్రెన్యూర్స్ రావాలని, అప్పుడు భారత్ మరింత గొప్పగా ఎదుగుతుందని వ్యాఖ్యానించారు. హైదరాబాద్‌ మూడు దశాబ్ధాల్లో గణనీయంగా అభివృద్ధి చెందిందని తెలిపారు. స్వాతంత్య్రం కంటే ముందు పాకిస్తాన్‌లోని రావల్పిండిలో జన్మించిన డాక్టర్‌ కణ్వాల్ రేఖీ సిలికాన్ వ్యాలీలో ప్రముఖ పారిశ్రామికవేత్తగా ఎదిగిన తీరు అందరికీ ఆదర్శమని టై‌ హైదరాబాద్ ప్రెసిడెంట్ మురళీ కక్కర్ల అన్నారు. భారత్​లో అపారమైన అవకాశాలు ఉన్నాయని, నిపుణులైన మానవ వనరులకు, ప్రభుత్వ సహకారం, విధి విధానాలు తోడైతే రాబోయే రోజుల్లో స్టార్టప్​లో భారత్​ ఎంతో ముందుంటుందని కణ్వాల్ రేఖీ తెలిపారు.&nbsp;

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00:00Sir, first of all, good morning, sir. Namaste.

00:13Good morning.

00:14Pleasure meeting you.

00:15So what's your journey from Ravalpindi to Silicon Valley via Kanpur?

00:20Via Kanpur and via IIT Bombay.

00:23The IIT Bombay was the platform that prepared me to be able to draw to Emerita and succeed.

00:33How can India promote entrepreneurship and innovation to economic growth for India?

00:41Well, it's already doing it, right?

00:43So India is becoming more and more entrepreneurial.

00:46When I first came to talk about entrepreneurship in 1998, India was still not very clear.

00:54But now we have a startup India program.

00:57We have 200,000 entrepreneurs.

01:00We have over 100 Unitrons.

01:02So it's happening.

01:03It needs to happen at a much larger state.

01:06India needs to plan to have 10 million entrepreneurs by 2047, maybe 10 lakh or 1 million entrepreneurs by 2030.

01:18So it needs to have a policy framework to enable entrepreneurship, the investments in startups.

01:26It's still very, very hard to do a startup and invest in a startup in India.

01:31Yeah, maybe no chapter didn't touch this if you do investment in startups.

01:36And if we have 10 million entrepreneurs, yeah, innovation will be taken care of.

01:42Jobs will be taken care of.

01:44The entrepreneurs are very innovative people.

01:46They think of new way of doing it.

01:48But also India needs to start investing more in research.

01:52My sense is that we are finally adopting technology.

01:57The whole teletom sector, the whole Adhaar and payment system is all technology driven.

02:05So what are the lessons you have learned from your success and failure?

02:10And what do you want to say to young entrepreneurs who are budding, sir?

02:13So, every success has failure built into it.

02:19Yeah, you fail, yeah, when you learn to ride a bicicletal, you fall a few times before you are able to ride a bicicletal.

02:26Same is true with anything, you know, becoming entrepreneurs, you know, you stumble along the way.

02:32But that's in the nature of the beast, you know, that shouldn't disturb you.

02:36Yeah, the, yeah, eventually you learn to ride the bicicletal, you know, learn to become a successful entrepreneur.

02:42Many youngsters wanted to travel to America.

02:45So, what's your take on that?

02:48Okay, so two things.

02:51The India lives in villages.

02:55India lives in third, fourth tier cities.

02:58And they are sort of stuck in the mud.

03:00Metros like Hyderabad have done well.

03:02You know, we have unitrons, you know, in places like that.

03:05But we need to have micro entrepreneurs, you know, small entrepreneurs who go back to the villages,

03:11who go back to their third tier, fourth tier city and solve the local problems using technology.

03:17So, back in the 60s, America felt that they were falling behind Soviet Union, you know, in space race.

03:25And so they wanted engineers to come to America and said they opened the doors.

03:30And people like us, who were coming out of IITs, had no jobs available in India.

03:35And so we said, oh, yeah, yeah.

03:38U.S. is going to restore America.

03:41So we went to America and we made the most of it.

03:45But now America feels that they don't need, you know, to have people.

03:49They want to, you know, save jobs for their own people.

03:52And so they're shutting the door down.

03:54But we don't have any birth rights to go to America.

03:58You know, we won't let Bangladeshis turn to India to cater our jobs.

04:03So Americans are shutting down.

04:05But at the same time, the opportunity is here.

04:08You know, India has opened up.

04:11India is growing very nicely.

04:13Yeah.

04:14Yeah.

04:15So you don't have to go to America, you know, to do a job, to start up a company.

04:18So opportunities are here rather than in America.

04:21You're not welcome.

04:22It's hard.

04:23You know, right over there now.

04:25So, yeah.

04:26Yeah.

04:27This might be the time when the Indian elite stays back and makes India happen.

04:33It's a great morning.

04:34Thanks for joining us, sir.

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