Indian Companies are Good at Copying Ideas Generated Elsewhere [Video]

Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, who has been quite vocal about the need for the youth of the country to work 70-hours a week, recently said that Indians are good at applying ideas generated elsewhere for the betterment of the nation. He also added that it would take time for the country to invent new things. 

He may be right. The most recent Ola’s Krutrim model is just a replica of OpenAI’s model, simply moulded for Indian use cases. This is similar to Flipkart copying Amazon, Ola copying Uber, and Zomato and Swiggy copying DoorDash. 

Meanwhile, there are other quick commerce companies such as Zepto and Dunzo, which are completely new concepts and are thriving in India. 

Recently, Kunal Shah, the founder of CRED, posted on X sayingthat early stage startups should be easy to iterate and late stage startups should be hard to distract. This also highlights the mentality of Indian startups that …