Viral Shah, founder of Fourth Lion along with Naman Pugalia and Shankar Maruwada worked for Nandan Nilekani and former Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan's campaigns. Viral Shah describes Bangalore’s role in the development of his business included an app called HawkEye that provides live insights about municipal wards, and an electoral list checker called Voter LookUp, somewhat differently.
"Today, Bangalore has the highest number of PhDs in India, the highest number of startups, the highest number of VCs, and the highest number of Indians returning back to the country. Naturally, it has emerged as the entrepreneurial hub. All businesses - taxis, music, movies, retail, hotels, and banking - are being eaten by software and reinvented by technologists, as Marc Andreessen famously said a few years ago. Politics and government is the last bastion.
Where else in India but Bangalore will we find the talent and entrepreneurship for software to eat politics and government?" Shah commented.
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