The annual Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC), held in India for the second time by GWC, drew dozens of startups, innovators, investors and mobile powerhouses to Bangalore.
With the theme ‘Mobile Everything – Connecting Innovation,’ the speaker lineup included the founders of Indian billion-dollar ‘unicorn’ players such as Flipkart, Snapdeal, Paytm, Ola and InMobi. There were also heavyweights from China such as Baidu, and emerging stars like APUS and Qiku.
Here is my pick of 30 quotes from the speakers, which reveal insights not just about mobile and innovation but India’s economy and progress as well!
“The biggest threat to incumbents is not from competitors but from the next startups – the unknown unknowns.”
– Naveen Tiwari, InMobi
“Indian startups today have reversed the Brain Drain to the West, but we have a long way to go before we become like the US or China.”
– Sachin Bansal, FlipKart
“Mobile is the first hi-tech mass personal medium. But more than the device, the app is the magic.”
– Vijay Shekhar Sharma, One97/Paytm
“Today’s users don’t want to search for things – they want things to show up, as reminders or directions.”
- Rohit Bansal, SnapDeal
“The teenager is now the CTO (chief technology officer) and CPO (chief procurement officer) of the house!”
- Kunal Shah, FreeCharge
“Are we heading towards an ‘appocalypse’ with an overload of apps?”
- Deepak Ajwani, Forbes India
“We talk of ‘Digital India’ but first we need fewer dropped calls!”
– Vikram Chandra, NDTV
“India has come later to the mobile Internet party than China – but we will rock the party!”
- Manish Agarwal, Nazara Technologies
“India’s definition of broadband is 512 Kpbs; the world has moved on to 2 Mbps.”
- Leslie D’Montie, Mint
“China has a 20-year lead in economic liberalisation, as compared to India.”
- Vikas Agarwal, OnePlus
“Much of India can leapfrog the PC era into mobile Internet.”
- Tomsin Tung, Inveno
“The speed of the flip in dominance in India from desktop to mobile has taken us by surprise; we knew it would come, but not so fast.”
- Harish Bahl, Smile Group
“In two years, 5-10 million Indians will be buying or viewing movies on mobile Internet.”
- Dippak Khurana, vServ
“You can take an idea from abroad – but operationalising it locally will take different skills in areas like delivery and branding.”
- Karthik Reddy, Blume Ventures
“Failure is the mother of success.”
- Fu Sheng, Cheetah Mobile
“Apps are more sticky than the mobile web – more people come back, and more often.”
- Ross Veitch, Wego
“The new metrics are not just CPC (cost per click) but CPI (cost per install), and in-app monetisation activities.”
- Gourav Chindlur, Vizury
“Opening up the current apps to developers can give rise to mass market apps.”
- Sumit Jain, CommonFloor
“It is a big disappointment that none of the Top 10 apps on Google PlayStore for India are made in India.”
- Shailesh Lakhani, Sequoia India
“Visual search will be the next generation of search.”
- Kedar Kulkarni, HyperVerge
“Payment is as big a part of the taxi experience as booking.”
- Ananda Sumbramaniam, Ola
“Only 15 per cent of Indians have access to credit.”
– N.K. Ramakrishna, RangDe
“Indians will open up their homes to strangers – if they can choose which kind of guest they want.”
- Yogendra Vasupal, Stayzilla
“Amazing is not enough of a word to describe India – incredible is better!”
- Li Mingyan, Baidu
“With India’s 1.28 billion people and China’s 1.36 billion, that is a huge population – and a big opportunity.”
- Li Tao, APUS Group
“When you volunteer to help, others actually end up helping you more than you help them.”
– Jeremy Almeida, The Nudge Foundation
“The NGO model is also a good way for entrepreneurs to reach out to a larger audience in India.”
- Anand Daniel, Accel India
“This is the age of the Internet conglomerates in India, which will be bigger than the earlier traditional conglomerates.”
- Vijay Shekhar Sharma, One97/Paytm
“The mobile innovators of today will become the business leaders of tomorrow.”
- Wen Chu, GWC
original article link: https://yourstory.com/2015/09/app-magic-vijay-shekhar-sharma-paytm-innovation-insights-gmic/
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