India, April 6 -- Amid the controversy over union minister Piyush Goyal's comment on the Indian startup ecosystem's lack of focus on emerging technologies, EaseMyTrip CEO and co-founder Rikant Pittie took to LinkedIn to share the company's transformation from a bootstrapped startup to a global travel tech leader.

Speaking at the Startup Mahakumbh 2025 in New Delhi earlier this week, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal asked India's startup community to focus more on the tech sector like semiconductor, machine learning, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) as compared to grocery delivery and ice cream making. The BJP leader also argued that luxury consumer brands created by the children of billionaires aren't to be mis...