With decades of software experience, a strong tech workforce, and an active start-up community, India is well positioned to launch competitive platform companies. Already India has experienced strong growth of e-commerce platforms like Flipkart and Snapdeal. It has also launched local competitors to Uber, such as Ola and TaxiForSure and has several large and emerging well-established platform players, unique to emerging markets, like Redbus, Justdial, InMobi, Zipdial and Freecharge.
Sangeet Paul Choudary,
Platform Thinking Labs
The Center for Global Enterprise is pleased to partner with Sangeet Paul Choudary to capture and assess platform dynamics in India. Mr. Choudary will develop a database of Indian platform companies and prepare a survey report on the challenges and opportunities that these companies confront in building platform businesses in India. The survey will catalogue the diversity of platforms that have emerged to facilitate accommodation, education, finance/payments, real estate, travel, transportation, and online work. His analysis will contribution to the larger Emerging Platform Economy project initiated by the Center for Global Enterprise in a partnership with the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Choudary brings extensive experience to analyzing India’s platform landscape. A CGE Fellow and founder of Platform Thinking Labs, he regularly advises firms on platform dynamics, is an Entrepreneur in Residence at the INSEAD Business School, the Co-Chair of the MIT Platform Strategy Summit at the MIT Media Labs, an advisor at 500Startups in Silicon Valley and the founder of the blog Platform Thinking, best known for his work on platform business models and network effects. Sangeet was formerly the head of innovation and new ventures for Intuit Asia-Pacific, a founding member of Project Agrinova (a platform connecting farmers with buyers of farm produce in India, featured as a Harvard Business School case study), an early member of TxtWeb (a platform for bringing web publishing to SMS-only phones) and was responsible for managing Yahoo’s largest investment in South Asia, in a two-sided marketplace connecting local businesses with consumers.
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