We have to create our own Google, Facebook, Alibaba: Sinha

Press Trust of India  |  Panaji 

of State for Civil Aviation today urged Indian entrepreneurs to develop products and services that will solve "the problems of our very own".

must create its own success stories on the lines of global giants such as Google, or Tencent, he said.


"When we solve India's problems, we will solve world's problems as well. We should solve the problems of our very own," said, speaking at 'Ideas Conclave 2017', organised by Foundation here.

Indian entrepreneurs should develop products and services for domestic needs, he said.

"Because if we develop it for our people, same products and services will be used in all other places," said, adding that"if we want to be the of 21st century, has to become entrepreneurial engine."

has already proved itself in various sectors, the said.

"has the cheapest and best telecom services, motorcycles....There is a revolution happening in front of us. today consumes more mobile data than any other country including China," said.

"We have to create our own Googles, Facebooks, Alibabas and Tencents," he said.

"We talk about 'unicorn'. It is a company with market capitalisation of one billion dollars. We should not be satisfied talking about unicorns, we should talk about super unicorns with the market of ten billion dollars. We should not be satisfied with the idea of super unicorns, we should think how to build mega unicorns with the market capitalisation of hundred billion dollars," the said.

"If we build companies of that scale, we will have economic leadership, that's how we will give economic opportunities to all our people," said.

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First Published: Sat, December 16 2017. 17:50 IST