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Khanna: Philippines surpassed India in call center workers and revenues
“The Philippines now has more workers and more revenues from call centers than India does because they physically made a plan.”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:56 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
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Khanna: Reverse pipelines supply Russian gas to Ukraine via Western Europe
“The target country for Russia is of course, Ukraine. But now that Russia has built so many, is building so many new pipelines to Europe that circumvent Ukraine, Europe is building what are called reverse pipelines that take the gas that goes from Russia to Ger…”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:10 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
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Khanna: Average Facebook user's international friends rose to 15-16%
“If you look at the number of, for example, international friends that people have on Facebook, it used to be only, you know, four or five percent of an average person's friends were from another country, and now it's risen to like 15 or 16%.”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:22 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
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Khanna: Global special economic zones grew from a couple to 4,000
“In, in 50 years ago, there were only a couple of special economic zones in the world. Today we have 4000 of them.”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:41 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
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Khanna: Countries with most special economic zones grow fastest
“And that's why, you know, the Philippines and India and Vietnam, these countries that have the most such special economic zones are among the fastest growing countries in the world.”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:24 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
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Khanna: 1 million kilometers of fiber optic cables lie underwater
“And there's about one million kilometers Of fiber optic cables under the ocean floor.”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:35 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
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