One question Indian start-up biggies would ask tech titans

At the event where the leading lights of India's start-up scene celebrated achievers, five of them shared a question each for famous entrepreneurs

Bengaluru played host to the ET Startup Awards at The Leela Palace on Monday amidst much pomp and ceremony. The big draw of the evening was Evan Spiegel, who attended with his supermodel girlfriend-Miranda Kerr. As the big players from India's start-up space caught up with contemporaries at a sit-down dinner, ETPanache asked a few of them to share one question they would ask a world business leader:

Kunal Shah, Founder & CEO of FreeCharge

Question for Evan Spiegel (Co-founder & CEO, Snapchat) "How did you get an insight into the mindset of teenagers fancying the concept of images appearing and disappearing?"



Pranay Chulet, Co-founder and CEO, Quikr

Question for Elon Musk (Inventor & CEO, Tesla Motors) "When is the electric bike coming to Bengaluru?"


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Naveen Tewari, CEO, InMobi

Question for Jack Ma (Chairman, Alibaba) "How has China's richest man, Jack Ma, dealt with failure?"


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Hari Menon, Co-founder of BigBasket

Question for late Steve Jobs (Cofounder & former CEO, Apple) "Would Steve Jobs sit on my board of directors?"

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Anu Acharya, Founder & CEO of Mapmygenome

Question for Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Facebook) "Why did Mark Zuckerberg feel the need to wait for PM Narendra Modi to visit him in USA to talk about his India connection? If India inspired his mission for Facebook, why did he wait for Modi's visit to say so?"