Sahai: McKinsey projected $200B Indian tech sector by 2020, actual hit $220B
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Avanish Sahai reflects on leading McKinsey's late-1990s 'Vision 2020' study with NASSCOM for the Indian government to outline policy reforms needed to scale India's tech sector.
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“We, as a team, and I was leading the software and services practice here in actually very close to where we're recording in Palo Alto, and a number of us were involved in this, and we said, look, and if all these things happen in 2020, this could be about a two hundred billion US business. Two hundred billion dollars. And it turns out some of us were chatting a few, a couple of years ago. We think that the actual number based on the data we have was about two hundred and twenty billion dollars.”
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