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Anupam Mittal slams India’s blind adoption of deep-tech
Shaadi.com founder Anupam Mittal criticised India’s blind adoption of deep-tech narratives from the West.
Anupam Mittal slams India’s blind adoption of deep-tech from West
Sharing an image of a woman delivery partner from Blinkit, Mittal shared on LinkedIn, “Saw this woman the other day, and thought maybe she should learn Python. Perhaps she can fine-tune an LLM too while delivering your groceries”.
“Every time I say India needs jobs along with deep-tech, someone sends me a whitepaper on AI skilling,” he said. “Basically, parroting the west without understanding our own reality.”
Mittal agreed that automation and AI replacement are happening in the top companies, saying, “40–50% of work processes will be AI-driven in 2–3 years” in tech companies in the West. Explaining his point, he further said that western economies have “less population, high formal employment and deep reskilling budgets”, and that is not the case with a country like India.
He further shared his experience of working in the US and pointed out, “When I worked in the US, every time a new tech or software rolled out, we were upskilled in real time not just as individuals, but across the entire organisation. That’s what real skilling infrastructure looks like.”
But he mentioned that India, which has a large self-employed workforce, is still “not there yet”.
Mentioning that India’s gig economy has been a “blessing” as it “enabled employment for millions”, he remarked, “For a country with about 20% of the world’s population, that’s no mean feat!”
India's 2 distinct employment situations
The Shark Tank India judge further said that India has both “high-skilled” talents who will build future “big-tech” and a large “low-skilled” populace that needs to be taken along.
“India needs to address both these issues simultaneously, no?” Mittal concluded the post with this question.
Incidentally, Mittal's Shaadi.com had launched AstroChat, a digital astrology platform offering live consultations, horoscopes, and personalised spiritual guidance.
“Indians have always looked to astrology for guidance,” Anupam Mittal earlier said. “We wanted to bring the same level of trust and accessibility to spiritual services that we brought to matchmaking.”