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Khanna: Africa is the fastest-growing international market for Indian telecom giants
“Tata, again, Tata, Reliance, all of these Indian telecommunications companies, where's their biggest growing footprint besides their home market? It's Africa.”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:13 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
Assertion Partly supported
Khanna: US gig workers now outnumber manufacturing workers by millions
“We're at the point now where there are more people, Surviving in the sharing economy, you know, so as, you know, part-time workers, digital workforce, gigonomists, whatever term you want to use, you know, freelancers as a whole, some estimate 30 to forty milli…”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:25 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
Assertion Partly supported
Khanna: Top 300 cities represent most of global economic output
“The sort of top 300 cities in the world represent most of the world economy.”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:23 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
Assertion Partly supported
Khanna: Global infrastructure includes 2M km of pipelines and 4M km of railways
“Today, we have about two million kilometers of them, right? Not to mention the four million kilometers of railways.”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:05 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
Assertion Partly supported
Khanna: Global expat population reached 300 million
“There used to be about a hundred in the sixties, only a hundred million people living outside their country of origin. Now it's over three hundred million people who are expats.”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:43 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
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