Ratan Tata's legacy: Turning Indian conglomerate into a global force

'Salt to software' conglomerate's new hopes ride on airline, digital business

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Tata Group's buys of companies like Jaguar Land Rover and Air India, and tie-ups with giants like Starbucks, defined Ratan Tata's tenure. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Getty Images, Reuters, AP)

SAYAN CHAKRABORTY and SOUMYAJIT SAHA, Nikkei staff writers

BENGALURU/MUMBAI -- Neha Singh had braced herself for lengthy monologues and a know-it-all air when she walked into her first meeting with Ratan Tata on a November morning in 2015.

Much to her delight, the 90-minute discussion about Tata's potential investment in her startup, Tracxn Technologies, turned out to be anything but that. Singh recalls the patriarch of the Tata Group brimming with curiosity about the internet economy, a distant world from the conglomerate he had run from 1991 to 2012.

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