Ghosh: Indian IT Services Generate $400B and a $1.2T Broader Economy
Bhaskar Ghosh · How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC · Nov 21, 2025 · at 3:35
Bhaskar Ghosh, Partner at 8VC, discusses the macroeconomic scale of India's IT, BPO, and broader services industry.
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“The revenue coming into India from services BPO, IT, non-IT is about four hundred billion. The total economy around the services economy, if you add the families and the schools and the hospitals and everything else is 1.2 trillion.”
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