Billionaire industrialist Anand Mahindra joined the likes of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Apple CEO Tim Cook, among others in the East Room of the White House on Friday night for a India-US Hi-Tech Handshake meeting.
Hours after the meeting concluded, the business tycoon took to Twitter to share his experience.
He said that the Hi-Tech Handshake event was “refreshingly frank.” In his tweet, he wrote, “My optimism about closer technology cooperation is because the mutual benefit is now involved rather than just a one-way request from India.”
After the meeting, the 69-year-old met OpenAI founder Sam Altman and discussed the ‘challenge’ that Tech Mahindra MD and CEO CP Gurnani accepted during the start-up head’s India tour earlier this month.
After Altman quipped “It’s pretty hopeless” for Indian start-ups to compete with them, Gurnani tweeted, “Challenge Accepted.” At the time, Altman replied to the Tech Mahindra CEO and said his response was taken out of context.
When the Mahindra Group Chairman reminded Altman of that challenge, the ChatGPT creator “reiterated that he’d been misunderstood.” “He’s far from sceptical about Indian abilities,” Mahindra tweeted.
Mahindra, who got a chance to explore the White House before the meeting, said that he soaked in the “heritage atmosphere of the rooms named by their colours.” Sharing some pictures from the White House, he said that the most poignant Presidential portrait was of John F Kennedy. “Painted posthumously and a pensive pose… unlike the others,” he wrote.
Mahindra has been keeping a promise he made to his more than 10.6 million followers on Twitter. He shared moments from the state dinner in Washington on Thursday evening.
At the fancy dinner, the high-profile guests were treated to a magical night of music where American violinist Joshua Bell, South Asian a cappella group Penn Masala founded by the University of Pennsylvania students and the US Marine Band Chamber Orchestra performed.
In his series of tweets, Mahindra shared a video of the US Marine Band playing, ‘Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon’, and lauded violinist Bell and the famed a capella group.
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