In his recent post on LinkedIn, he wrote,” Super excited to join SpaceX effective Oct 1, 2021, as Starlink Country Director India. Had worked with @elonmusk on the PayPal founding team”.
“Have been in India since 2004 and Starlink and I share a common passion for supporting a transformed India starting with Rural India,” he added.
Starlink is competing for a portion of the growing satellite broadband market. It would come out of the beta phase, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk had said in a tweet recently.
Sanjay graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay with a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering and did his masters from the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad. Previously, he was the chairman of his co-founded investment advisory firm Bharosa Club.
He had previously worked with the Tesla founder on the PayPal founding team. He formulated an easier and low-cost method for attesting bank accounts linked to PayPal. The firm made a low-value deposit and asked the customer to update the transaction id instead of using the expensive method of collecting cancelled cheques.
Musk replied to a Twitter post that the company is figuring out how the regulatory approval process in the country would work for Starlink.
“Just figuring out the regulatory approval process,” he wrote.