Shark Tank India: Piyush Goyal Posts Viral Meme To Take Dig At Oppn & Describe Start-Ups Growth

India surpassed the UK to emerge as the third highest country in the number of unicorns after US and China, which added 487 and 301 unicorns, respectively, in 2021

Union Minister Piyush Goyal | File Image

New Delhi: Joining the meme fest triggered by Shark Tank India, Union minister Piyush Goyal took the opportunity to attack the Opposition while describing the status of unicorns in the country.

In a tweet, the minister of commerce and industry commended the rate at which Indian start-ups are becoming unicorns, privately held start-ups valued at over $1 billion, and mentioned a line implying opposition sulking over the growth.

Goyal tweeted a meme. "Question: What did India do once every five days in 2022? The answer goes on to state: It created a unicorn." There is a line below saying, "India already added 8 new unicorns in just 40 days of 2022". 

In response to that,  "Opposition parties: yeh baat mai digest hi nahi kar paa raha hoon (am unable to digest this thing)".

Question: What did India do once every five days in 2022?
Answer: It created a ‘Unicorn’! pic.twitter.com/cXc1Rzo5av

— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) February 12, 2022

This catchphrase is picked from one of the Shark's Anupam Mittal from the business reality television series who is popular for saying, 'Yeh baat mai digest hi nahi kar paa raha hoon'.

The post has gone viral with hilarious reactions from netizens. Anupam Mittal also shared the post saying, "India is finally very Modivated".

Anupam Mittal is the founder of Shaadi.com and People Group. Mittal is among the seven sharks, who have appeared in the reality show for judging the business ideas of entrepreneurs and deciding whether to invest in these ventures.

The eight unicorns (a startup with a value of over $1 billion) to get added in the first one and a half months of 2022 include XpressBees, LivSpace, ElasricRun, Polygon, DarwinBox, LEAD School, Fractal.

Going by the latest Economic Survey, India has 83 startup unicorns as of January 14, 2022. The number of newly recognised startups has increased to over 14,000 in 2021-22 from only 733 in 2016-17.

India also surpassed the UK to emerge as the third highest country in the number of unicorns after US and China, which added 487 and 301 unicorns, respectively, in 2021.

Sony Entertainment Television had just concluded the first edition of the business reality show format - Shark Tank India. This show gave an opportunity to budding entrepreneurs to make it big by pitching their business ideas to a group of self-made businessmen and seeking their investment.