Bhushan: Two to three multi-billion-dollar Indian tech acquisitions will happen within 10 years
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Brij Bhushan (Prime Venture Partners) discusses the maturity of the Indian startup ecosystem and the future of domestic multi-billion-dollar tech M&A.
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“But hopefully two, three of this should happen in the next 10 years, and I'm guessing that one of the Indian companies that are going public, or have gone public, would be the ones leading the charge.”
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