Dash: Rise of remote work will disproportionately benefit Indian tech talent
Somesh Dash · Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies · Jun 29, 2020 · at 9:45
Somesh Dash, General Partner at IVP, discusses how the post-COVID shift toward distributed work breaks down geographic constraints for Indian knowledge workers.
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“The reality is there's going to be a global workforce of skilled you know, tech workers, and I think it really stands to benefit the Indian startup ecosystem because India is one of the best labor forces when it comes to deep steam training, engineering, and business process-minded labor Knowledge workers. And the reality now is geographic barriers will not be as much of an impediment as they once were.”
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