{"id":919476,"date":"2025-04-04T10:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T05:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=919476"},"modified":"2025-04-04T10:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T05:26:29","slug":"its-easy-to-criticise-zepto-ceo-defends-indian-startups-claims-to-provide-1-5-lakh-jobs-amid-piyush-goyals-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/04\/its-easy-to-criticise-zepto-ceo-defends-indian-startups-claims-to-provide-1-5-lakh-jobs-amid-piyush-goyals-jab\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2019It\u2019s easy to criticise,\u2019 Zepto CEO defends Indian startups, claims to provide 1.5 lakh jobs amid Piyush Goyal\u2019s jab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zepto co-founder Aadit Palicha has claimed that India&#8217;s consumer internet startups are vital for innovation. While highlighting the recent criticism of Indian start-ups, he points to Zepto&#8217;s growth and contributions, urging support for local companies to foster technological advancements.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to the social media platform X, Aadit Palicha wrote, \u201cIt is easy to criticise consumer internet startups in India, especially when you compare them to the deep technical excellence being built in US\/China.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zepto co-founder Aadit Palicha has claimed that India&#8217;s consumer internet startups are vital for innovation. While highlighting the recent criticism of Indian start-ups, he points to Zepto&#8217;s growth and contributions, urging support for local companies to foster technological advancements. Taking to the social media platform X, Aadit Palicha wrote, \u201cIt is easy to criticise consumer internet startups in India, especially when you compare them to the deep technical excellence being built in US\/China.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919476","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}