~ Anupam Sanghi, Founder TechBridge
Who’s Impacted – What are the Mandatory Obligations?
Gatekeepers with financial (domestic turnover < INR 4,000 cr) and user thresholds (10k business users 1cr end-users) are compelled to change their business models.
Top 5 Risks Impacting Indian Startup Ecosystem
How do Ex-Ante rules interfere in business freedom inviting CCI’s intervention?
- Gatekeeper designations do not differentiate business models of platforms and ecosystems, labelled as SSDEs
- CCI can misinterpret legitimate business strategies and ethical behaviour under the umbrella of identified ACPs
- Penalties for non-compliance of mandatory changes to business structures / UX strategies
- Missing Efficiency vs. harm test for differentiated markets
- Restricts incentive to grow to a certain size with innovative business models and vertically integrate with platform ecosystem
Tech Regulatory strategy – Priorities for Bridging Tech-Reg Gaps?
- Conflicting goals of the government / policymakers and the startup founders.
- Fragmented approach for which a trillion dollar startup ecosystem remains at risk.
Need consensus building – How?
- Need a comprehensive digital market study
- Need roundtables for multi-disciplinary perspectives
- Strategies to align goals with key stakeholders
- Building solutions to avoid restructuring costs
- Company Boards to allocate long term investments against knee jerk regulatory hurdles
- Advocacy to sensitise the government for de-risking investment (penalties/business models restructuring)
- Supporting empirical studies for consistent regulations
- Building principles based governance model – for issues demanding radical regulations
For Discussion
- Impact of Ex-Ante rules in DCB on Indian tech platforms / MSMEs
- Entry barriers – Dominance issues
- Regulatory barriers – pros and cons
- Sector Studies with real harms – scenarios
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