In this brief YouTube Shorts interview, speaker A asks Alpesh B Patel OBE about his view of India's public markets. Patel highlights two contrasting forces: excitement over the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence and the entrepreneurial momentum driving Indian companies, and frustration with regulatory friction and the slow pace of business‑reform measures that hinder that momentum. He frames his perspective within a broader narrative of India's unity, historical entrepreneurial spirit, and the need for faster, more predictable policy action to sustain growth.
When you look at India's public markets today, what excites you the most and what frustrates you the most?
Frustration will always be things do not move at the speed you want them to. And I'll, I'll give you an example of what excites me.
Yeah.
Globally is AI. Now India in AI is moving really fast. It was actually moving really fast in crypto as well. And that's thanks to the fact that they've got a technophile Prime Minister. He loves technology and knows that that can solve a lot of problems. So speed I'm really pleased with. I wish there were fewer regulations. I wish the ease of doing business was It's moving in the right direction. The Indians will tell you that. They get advice from a million other people internally and externally, which is reduce some of the regulations, unleash the entrepreneurial spirit even more so because the, I've seen it with my own father, the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indians unleashed. Remember, this was the largest, joint largest economy in the world before the British arrived alongside China. It is in the blood. Do you have the ability to create in one country a global company with all the skills and traits you'd want from different states all pulled in. And that's been the improbable unifying factor of India, because if you think about it, you cross the border and you're talking a different language, you're eating different food. India is like Europe, but what, what is it, 4 times the size, and yet more unified than Europe is.
