Video · ~30 minutes

Nandan Nilekani on India's Digital Public Infrastructure

Nandan Nilekani · YouTube / Beckn Protocol Free Intermediate India

Nandan Nilekani on India's Digital Public Infrastructure

The person behind Aadhaar and UPI explaining the rails that make India-specific businesses possible: identity, payments, and data sharing at population scale. Understanding this stack tells you which problems just got cheap to solve and where a startup can ride public infrastructure instead of building its own. Watch it to see the tailwind under most durable Indian bets.

  • UPI, Aadhaar, and Account Aggregator lower the cost of reaching India2 and India3
  • Cheap data plus digital identity is the enabling shift, not the product itself
  • Building on public rails can be a structural edge over global incumbents
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It answers 2 questions

  1. What are the biggest emerging opportunities in India right now?
  2. How do I tell the difference between a trend that only matters to Silicon Valley and one that will actually land in India?

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