Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee used to say, “India’s future is in IT, i.e. Information Technology.” I also firmly believe ‘India’s future is in IT - as in Indian Talent!’
Several years ago, I had attended a seminar on export competitiveness of India. There was a discussion about what could be India’s best export to the world. Someone cryptically remarked ‘without doubt, they are the IIT graduates!’ in other words, India is a great exporter of great talent!
And how true this is! We as Indians celebrated the appointment of Sundar Pichai as the CEO of Google and earlier, Satya Nadella’s appointment as the CEO of Microsoft was highly lauded. India believes in Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram. Maybe, it is time to have Shiva as CEO of another global giant – who knows? So while we celebrate the Satyas and Sundars, should we, as Indians, not raise our ambition, and ask ourselves when will we be ready to create the new Microsofts and Googles?
Someone once asked me “Aren’t there any Bill Gates in India?” I said, of course, there are. But having a Bill Gates is one thing and creating a Microsoftis another. It requires an innovation ecosystem, which trusts the young, takes risks and indeed celebrates failure.
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