{"id":919748,"date":"2025-04-05T09:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=919748"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:53:32","slug":"easy-to-criticise-consumer-internet-startups-zepto-ceo-cites-firms-contributions-after-goyals-jibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/05\/easy-to-criticise-consumer-internet-startups-zepto-ceo-cites-firms-contributions-after-goyals-jibe\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy to criticise consumer internet startups: Zepto CEO cites firm&#8217;s contributions after Goyal&#8217;s jibe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal&#8217;s scathing remarks on Indian startup ecosystem and its innovation priorities have drawn sharp reaction from the industry, with Zepto CEO Aadit Palicha putting up a strong defence citing the company&#8217;s contribution to jobs, FDI and terming it a &#8220;miracle in Indian innovation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal&#8217;s scathing remarks on Indian startup ecosystem and its innovation priorities have drawn sharp reaction from the industry, with Zepto CEO Aadit Palicha putting up a strong defence citing the company&#8217;s contribution to jobs, FDI and terming it a &#8220;miracle in Indian innovation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919748","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}