{"id":830536,"date":"2024-07-08T10:18:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=830536"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:18:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:48:39","slug":"govt-mainstreamed-startups-used-to-be-at-the-bottom-of-food-chain-paytms-vijay-shekhar-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/08\/govt-mainstreamed-startups-used-to-be-at-the-bottom-of-food-chain-paytms-vijay-shekhar-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt mainstreamed startups; used to be at the bottom of food chain: Paytm&#8217;s Vijay Shekhar Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has mainstreamed startups ushering a truly golden period for them, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma said, adding this is a dramatic shift from the days when startups would rank at the bottom of the &#8220;food chain&#8221; in job picks. The &#8216;American dream&#8217; folklore in business and technology parlance has given way to the &#8216;Indian dream&#8217; and &#8216;Indian startup&#8217;, Sharma said, adding that this is &#8220;truly a golden period&#8221; for founders and entrepreneurs here.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 7th JIIF Foundation day, Sharma credited the government for mainstreaming startups and giving visibility to founders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has mainstreamed startups ushering a truly golden period for them, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma said, adding this is a dramatic shift from the days when startups would rank at the bottom of the &#8220;food chain&#8221; in job picks. The &#8216;American dream&#8217; folklore in business and technology parlance has given way to the &#8216;Indian dream&#8217; and &#8216;Indian startup&#8217;, Sharma said, adding that this is &#8220;truly a golden period&#8221; for founders and entrepreneurs here. Speaking at the 7th JIIF Foundation day, Sharma credited the government for mainstreaming startups and giving visibility to founders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}