Mohandas Pai on Massive India Opportunity, Market Potential and Leveraging Digital India

Mohandas Pai, Chairman Aarin Capital and Manipal Global Education chats with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners .

Mohandas Pai is a Padma Shri Awardee and former CFO and Board Member at Infosys. He is also the co-founder of Akshaya Patra, the world’s largest midday meal program. Mohan has served as the Chairman of the Board of SEBI, and is now a Board Member of the National Stock Exchange in India.

He has helped start over 10 different funds in venture, growth, and public markets. He also leads a private equity fund - Aarin Capital - along with Manipal Group Chairman Ranjan Pai that invests in life sciences and education companies.

Listen to the podcast to learn about:

00:00 - Teaser & Intro

02:18 - The digital ecosystem in India

09:35 - India as being large but a different opportunity

15:16 - The direction of doing business in India

19:21 - The role of both entrepreneurs from the smaller towns in India as well as the opportunities for all entrepreneurs in the metros

23:45 - The opportunities for the private sector and startup ecosystem to work with the government

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