Apple chief Executive Officer Tim Cook's visit to India, mixing plenty of leisure with work, has set off comparisons with other tech giants.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's trips to the country in 2014 and 2015
lasted for about two days. Microsoft chief Satya Nadella will come at
the end of this month only for a day, the same as the duration of his
previous official visit in November 2015.
Google's Sundar Pichai was in the country for two days last year. Bill
Gates' first visit as the CEO of Microsoft in 1997 was short - barely
two days.
Apart from limiting the number of days in an official visit to two or
three, CEOs of large multinational corporations have mostly stuck to
business on such trips - meeting business and political leaders,
interacting with students on college campuses, and doing big-ticket
launches.
Perhaps, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was a little out of the box as he
went on a road show in a supply truck wearing a sherwani and waving a
$2-billion note (that's the investment committed in the India market so
far) in Bengaluru in September 2014. Bezos also spent almost a week in
the country. But while onlookers may wonder how Cook had the time to
experience even cricket and Bollywood, travelling thousands of
kilometres within the country, those in the know pointed out it was more
about business than just fun for the American tech giant executives.
If Apple CEO is
to stay in India, surely cricket and Bollywood cannot be ignored, seems
to have been the thought behind Cook's just-concluded visit.
"He came to India with a very serious road map. Bollywood and cricket
were surely on his mind for future business prospects," said film-maker
Mukesh Bhatt, who was one of the people to interact with Cook when he
was in Mumbai. Read More
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