Ratan Tata's Acceptance Speech on receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at TiEcon Mumbai 2020

good evening it's a great privilege and a great honor to be given this this very prestigious award and it's something I will treasure in the years ahead tie is a an organization that has ventured many startups and many young companies and facilitated the network and introduction in many ways it has been a motivator to the growth of this very exciting and innovative sector and something that I would imagine is a very useful and needful thing in in in a young company with young founders looking for help and information and in the years ahead it's been a particular pleasure to get the award from the hands of my good friend Narayan Murthy Bertie I'm pleased to say that today I didn't make you wait so we are able to listen to your speech rather than a curtailed version but seriously I am greatly honored to have this award bestowed on on me the industry in the startup industry and the young founders of this industry are the new leaders of Indian industry the old smokestack industries will always be there but they will recede into the background in terms of excitement in terms of innovation in terms of ingenuity in many cases we hope in many more cases of great success not only in India but elsewhere in the world so I compliment ion on what it has been doing and once again thank you for the honor that you've bestowed on me [Applause] so you are not on a we are honored by your presence here [Applause] this took month and a half ago with can well Reiki when we made mr. Ratan Tata and we talked about how do we accelerate transformation of India and one of the suggestion idea was to create million entrepreneurs and we said the startup community sitting here would like to recognize mr. Ratan Tata by his presence and that would be a symbolic way of sending a message out in the country we need to create millions as entrepreneurs so thank you very much sir for your presence

Channel: TiE Mumbai

Views: 381,111

Keywords: Narayan Murthy, Tiecon, Tiecon Mumbai 2020, Ratan tata, Tata, Murthy, Infosys, tata sons, awards, speech, Entreprenuership, startups

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Length: 3min 47sec (227 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 25 2020