Lessons for India from three women taking on Google, Facebook and Amazon

Margrethe Vestager, Dina Srinivasan and Lina Khan lit the antitrust debate on Big Tech and market dominance. Is the Indian regulator ready to listen?

The antitrust cloud looming on Big Tech and three explosive ideas from three women help pin the issue down

They show how the companies perpetuate antitrust through exclusive deals, privacy flip flops and unconventional pricing

Vestager, Srinivasan and Khan’s ideas are very much relevant for India, the second-fastest digitising economy after China

And especially since India’s antitrust regulator hasn't been particularly proactive or consistent in its decisions on Big Tech so far

Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg—meet Margrethe Vestager, Lina Khan and Dina Srinivasan.

Vestager is the European Union’s (EU) competition commissioner; Khan, a law student in her late twenties; and Srinivasan, a veteran ad-tech entrepreneur. Three women, one goal: dismantle the dominance of Big Tech. Vestager, Khan and Srinivasan have decoded Pichai’s Google, Bezos’s Amazon and Zuckerberg’s Facebook, respectively, to isolate the same antitrust DNA that runs through all these companies.

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Arundhati Ramanathan

Arundhati is Bengaluru-based. She is interested in how people use money in the digital age and how new economies will take shape based on that interaction. She has spent over 10 years reporting and writing on various subjects. Previous stints were at Mint, Outlook Business and Reuters.

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