BENGALURU/MUMBAI — When Neha Singh went on her first date with Ratan Tata on a November morning in 2015, she braced herself for long monologues and a know-it-all air.
A 90-minute discussion about Tata's potential investment in his startup, Tracxn Technologies, delighted him. Singh recalls being intrigued by the internet economy, a world away from the conglomerate the Tata Group patriarch ran from 1991 to 2012.