Sanjay Bhargava to head Starlink satellite broadband venture in India

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Sanjay Bhargava, who had worked with Elon Musk as part of a team that had founded electronic payment firm, PayPal, will now head the tech billionaire entrepreneur’s Starlink satellite broadband venture in India.
Bhargava joins SpaceX as Starlink’s country director (India), as the Musk-led US aerospace company gears up to compete with Bharti group-backed OneWeb.
Bhargava joins SpaceX as Starlink’s country director (India), effective October 1, 2021, even as the Musk-led US aerospace company gears up to compete with Bharti group-backed OneWeb and others and launch fast satellite broadband services in India next year.
“Super excited to join SpaceX effective Oct 1, 2021 as Starlink Country Director India…had worked with @elonmusk on the PayPal founding team,” Bhargava said in a Linkedin post on Wednesday. He further added in the post that Starlink ..and he "shared a common passion for supporting a transformed India, starting with rural India”.