Aadhaar

“As some of you may know, the Aadhaar program, you know, Nandan had brought in about 15 to 20 people from the private sector as full-time volunteers, some as little as three months, some lasted, you know, four to seven years.”

“India has Essentially enrolled the country of Singapore every week nonstop for six years in a row, or the country of Australia every month nonstop for six years in a row to get it to, you know, over a billion users now.”

“Yeah, it's really cool, you know, what the government has done in India and UPI, Aadhaar these are all really smart things that the Indian government has pioneered for the rest of the world, and it'll be interesting to see where else these things happen. Hones…”

“The project, you know, that he worked on actually changed the biometric identification system in India and served as a base for, you know, what eventually turned out to be Aadhaar. And he has worked on, you know, in the first, you know, million enrollments tha…”

“So we took a one crore angel check from some guys who are frankly, who were willing to bet on my track record and whatever I had done at Aadhaar. So most of them were Aadhaar people only.”

“We are unique in the world in the sense of having large public digital infrastructure and population scale. So we have 1.3 billion people with a biometric unique ID, right?”

“That same month we went from opening up like 200 accounts a month to opening up a thousand accounts a month.”

“So we were the first broker to digitize when Adhar launched.”

“Till date, we don't have a incident which is verified where the, that Aadhaar database has been breached. So people crying Aadhaar data breached, which is wrong. So that infrastructure was never breached according to my knowledge.”

“And I think that's when the data came out that there are approximately about 50, 51 crore people who've actually linked their pants with Aadhaar.”

“And we have we did a very poor job of that with Aadhaar, better job with UPI, better still with Depa.”