Modi Visit To US: Check Out This List For The Coolest Silicon Valley Offices
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach the United States (US) on 24 September, marking his second visit to the country since he became the Prime Minister of India. During this visit, PM Modi will visit Silicon Valley, located along the west coast of the country. It was only last year that PM Modi had visited the east coast city, New York, and had shared the central government's 'Make in India' campaign with the US-based investors. This year, he seems to have a lot more on his plate.
The Indian business community is keeping a keen eye on the developments, as he is expected to promote the 'Make in India', 'Digital India', 'Smart City Mission', and 'Start-up India' campaigns among the established and emerging entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley in attempts to attract large investments to the country. During his visit to the Silicon Valley, Modi is also likely to encourage Indian entrepreneurs to help create a robust start-up culture in India through the 'Start-up India' campaign.
PM Modi will also meet the CXOs of global companies such as Google, Facebook and Tesla Motors, and have a round table discussion with more than 50 start-up CEOs. The discussion will focused on the current business environment in the country and how they can contribute to make it more facilitating. All of this will not only woo a lot of NRIs to invest in India but would also encourage Indian entrepreneurs to focus on improving India's ranking among nations for 'Ease of doing Business'.
About Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is home to some of the world's largest technology corporations such as Google, Cisco, Tesla Motors, Twitter, and Apple, among others, and a large number of technology start-ups such as Sprig, MuleSoft, Campus Job, Lumoid, 21 Inc., etc. Moreover, this southern region of San Francisco Bay Area is known to be one of the world's best tourism destination, too with places such as Mountain View, Menlo Park, Sunnyvale. On PM Narendra Modi's visit to the US, PropGuide features offices of some of the world-renowned technology companies headquartered in the Silicon Valley:
This US-based multi-national technology company, also known as the Internet titan, has revolutionised the way we see and use the Internet. Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Headquartered in Mountain View (California) , Google has an average turnover of approximately US $ 50 billion. In August, the company appointed an India-born Sundar Pichai as the CEO of Google (Alphabet Inc.) . PM Modi will be meeting Pichai during his visit to the Silicon Valley.
Known to be the world's largest online social networking site, Facebook, was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg (now the Chairman and CEO) , with his Harvard College fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. Headquartered in the Menlo Park (California) , the company generated a revenue of US $ 12,466 million, in FY 2014. PM Modi will be meeting Mark Zuckerberg at the company's headquarters on September 27.
Tesla Motors
Tesla is a renowned automotive and energy storage company that designs, manufactures, and sells electrical cars and related products. Headquartered in the Palo Alto of California, the company is headed by CEO Elon Musk who also serves as the product architect of Tesla Motors. Incorporated in 2003, the company posted a revenue of US$ 3.198 billion in 2014.
Apple
The world-acclaimed technology company, Apple Inc., was incorporated in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, California. The company is presently headed by CEO Tim Cook who took charge in the year 2011, after the founder Steve Jobs passed away. The company's total annual revenue stood at US$ 182 billion in 2014.
This popular social networking company was founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass. Twitter, headquartered in San Francisco, California generated a total revenue of US $ 1.4 billion in 2014. Jack Dorsey is the founder and CEO of the company.
Cisco
Cisco Systems is US-based multinational technology company, founded in 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner. Headquartered in San Jose (California) , Cisco generated revenue of US $ 49.2 billion in 2014. Chuck Robbins is the present CEO of the company.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation founded in 1975 is known to be world's most valuable organisation. Headquartered in the Redmond, Washington, the company generated total revenue of US $ 93.58 billion in 2015. After succeeding Steve Balmer, Satya Nadella was appointed as the CEO of Microsoft in 2014.
Yahoo!
Yahoo! is the world-acclaimed search engine company, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Established in 1994, Yahoo! generated total revenue of 4.61 billion in 2014. The current President and CEO of the company is Marissa Ann Mayer.
Intel
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Intel Corporation is a renowned multinational technology company. Founded in 1968, Intel generated total revenue of US$ 55.870 billion in 2014. Brian Matthew Krzanich is the present CEO of Intel, who was elected in 2013.
