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How a New Delhi startup event dubbed the “world's biggest funding festival” plunged into chaos, with participants alleging they were lured with false promises

Meryl Sebastian / BBC : Tweets: @soutikbbc and @sansip Tweets: Soutik Biswas / @soutikbbc : Participants believed that PM Modi, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk, among others, would be coming. But the event mostly consisted of start-up founders pitching themselves to other start-up founders. “What's the point of that?” Great story by Meryl Sebastian. https://www.bbc.com/... Sanjay Sipahimalani / @sansip : A report on the World Startup Convention in Noida, billed as the “world's biggest funding festival”. “Many participants and some sponsors have alleged that they were lured with false promises and cheated.” https://www.bbc.com/...

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  • @soutikbbc Soutik Biswas on x
    Participants believed that PM Modi, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk, among others, would be coming. But the event mostly consisted of start-up founders pitching themselves to other start-up founders. “What's the point of that?” Great story by Meryl Sebastian. https://www.bbc.com/...
  • @sansip Sanjay Sipahimalani on x
    A report on the World Startup Convention in Noida, billed as the “world's biggest funding festival”. “Many participants and some sponsors have alleged that they were lured with false promises and cheated.” https://www.bbc.com/...