Speaking on the sidelines of an Assocham event, Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India, on Friday, said that he will not allow driverless cars in India.

Concerned about the issue of unemployment, Gadkari highlighted that there is a need for growth of employment.

Moreover, Gadkari stressed that India has a shortage of around 22 Lakh drivers and hence it can help the country to overcome the unemployment challenge.

While the path towards EV is slow yet the government is taking steps to achieve the ambitious mission of revolutionising India’s mobility.

To further support India to shift towards EVs, international automobile manufacturers are also entering India. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577032284.0372932/Here’s-Why-Nitin-Gadkari-Is-Against-Bringing-Driverless-Cars-To-India?ref=audio_experience

The biannual sale of India’s leading fashion and lifestyle marketplace Myntra – End of Reason Sale (EORS) 2019 – has opened and is expected to be bigger than all its previous editions.

Now, it is finding stronger traction even from the Tier II and III locations.

Towards this end, the fashion and lifestyle marketplace has brought fresh initiatives to keep the buzz around for the shoppers.

Today, the range of products available on the Myntra platform has expanded in terms of depth and range.

“There are good quality of products and wide range of brands to choose on the Myntra platform,” he says. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577030428.2958663/Myntra-seeks-to-attract-and-retain-new-shoppers-during-End-of-Reason-Sale?ref=audio_experience

And now one of the leading venture capitalists in the world, Tim Draper, has also joined the agitation against the government.

Explaining why he feels like India’s new citizenship rules concern him about his investments in the country, Draper said that Freedom is a big thing for him.

He further said that his organisations and invested companies are a network of fairness, openness and transparency.

Draper said that his companies are guiding their invested companies toward free markets and other basic freedoms, religion, assembly and speech.

Further, excited from the potential of the Indian startup ecosystem, Draper, in 2017, Draper re-entered India through a partnership of his Draper Venture Network (DVN) with Blume Ventures. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577028743.265552/Tim-Draper-Wary-Of-India-Investments-Over-Controversial-CAA-And-NRC?ref=audio_experience

The forgotten 'third founder' of Google is fighting a fierce legal battle against his wife, who says he purposely sold his startup in a 'fire sale' amid their divorce | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577026869.3283992/Startup-founders-think-the-balance-of-power-will-shift-back-towards-investors-in-2020,-but-some-VCs-say-they-aren't-so-sure?ref=audio_experience

Freshness Usefulness Content Marketing Rebellion shows small business owners that they’ve had it right all along.

Marketing Rebellion was written for marketers, especially those in larger organizations.

Why Marketing Rebellion is Great News for Small BusinessMany small business owners suffer from a sort of inferiority complex as they try to make themselves look big.

I guess you can say that he truly embodies the message of Marketing Rebellion.

ConclusionTo appreciate Marketing Rebellion you have to be a consumer or a marketer. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577025023.7898378/Will-Marketing-Rebellion-Free-SMBs-From-Their-Inferiority-Complex??ref=audio_experience

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Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577023245.9104671/Artificial-intelligence-will-not-be-used-in-Indian-courts:-CJI?ref=audio_experience

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Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577021408.7107525/Become-an-AI-utopia:-China-is-halfway-there?ref=audio_experience

Sundar Pichai has earned himself a nice bump in his salary as he’s been elevated as the CEO of Alphabet.

That’s an impressive 200 percent increment in itself, but the real game-changer will be the restricted stock units that Pichai has been granted.

Pichai will be given two tranches of performance-based stock units worth $45 million and an additional $120 million in restricted stock units which will vest over the next three years.

That means that Pichai can earn himself a cool $165 million (Rs.

Both executives, of course, earn much higher portions from stock grants — Nadella’s total compensation last year was $43 million (Rs. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577019622.3260913/Here’s-The-Salary-That-Sundar-Pichai-Will-Earn-After-Being-Promoted-As-CEO-Of-Alphabet?ref=audio_experience

Why isn’t that rep focused purely on consistently building and then parsing over the highest quality, warmest leads to the closing sales rep?

So at that point you’re prospecting, you’re maintaining, you’re closing, you’re expanding, you’re renewing, etc.

Manny Medina: So one of my north stars in this business is a gentleman by the name of Steve Walske.

Manny Medina: And he was mentioning that he came into Apollo and he immediately doubled the price and nothing happened.

I don’t think I asked one question off the schedule, but a sign of a brilliant interview for sure. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577017130.9508064/SaaStr-Podcasts-for-the-Week-with-Outreach-and-OverView-—-December-20,-2019?ref=audio_experience

SkySpecs, an Ann Arbor, MI-based provider of wind energy operations and maintenance solutions, raised $17M in Series C funding.

The round was led by McRock iNFund LP, an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) venture capital fund managed by McRock Capital.

Other new investors in the round included Equinor Energy Ventures, and Evergy Ventures, the non-regulated investment affiliate of Evergy, the parent company of Kansas City Power & Light Company (KCP&L) and Westar Energy, alongside participation by existing investors including Statkraft Ventures, UL Ventures, Capital Midwest Fund, and Venture Investors.

Led by CEO Danny Ellis and CTO Tom Brady, SkySpecs provides Operations & Maintenance solutions for the wind energy industry, The company uses AI, machine learning, robotics, and software, to optimize operations & maintenance in order to enable better decision making about repairs and proactive planning.

SkySpecs has offices in Ann Arbor, MI and Amsterdam, Netherlands, and currently operates in 19 countries on 5 continents. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577014585.5167918/SkySpecs-Raises-$17M-in-Series-C-Funding?ref=audio_experience