印度有一个非常好的创业精神、文化和环境。这里有优秀的人才,这是一个快速增长的市场。有从社会和政府支持创业,我认为印度在硅谷的联盟和中国。面临的挑战是,你需要更多的时间来赚取利润。例如,Flipkart公司仍在努力这样做。健康的周期还没有来呢。手机上有几大市场,首先是广告,其次是游戏和娱乐,第三是电子商务。与中国不同,这里没有巨大的移动广告在这个时间点上。在中国,它在过去三至年变得如此。印度的电子商务仍处于早期。 Chinese e-commerce companies, like Alibaba, are now very profitable. E-commerce today in India is what China’s was many years ago. With time, India will get bigger. It’s a matter of time before we have world-class global companies coming out of India. Internet companies need time.
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<\/figure> BENGALURU: Lei Jun<\/a>, the 49-year-old founder of Xiaomi<\/a>, the Chinese mobile phone and electronics giant that has raced to $26 billion in turnover in less than a decade of existence, believes that growing trade tensions between China and the US could see Chinese investment flow being increasingly directed towards India. Jun, who is called by some as the \u2018Steve Jobs of China\u2019, describes India \u2014 where the company leads in smartphone sales \u2014 as Xiaomi\u2019s most important market outside China, and says the company is getting set to launch a range of new products in India to complement the existing line-up of phones and televisions that it already sells. These could include refrigerators, washing machines, ACs, water purifiers and possibly even electric vehicles. The company is also looking at getting into the payments business. Excerpts from an exclusive interview with TOI:
