We stand on the shoulders of Giants

Was listening to the conversation between Ajay Sharma and Neelkanth Mishra (It's on youtube, highly recommended). In the part 2, they discuss about Services exports and the revolution that IT exports have brought to India. That was the aha moment for me. In this platform, we criticize NRN, and the other IT co founders without realizing how much our lives have changed because of their 25+ years of work. (I'll be the first to admit, I was a part of this bandwagon too). If India did not have IT exports, we would be like Pak/SL or even worse today. That's not me, that's them saying this. While it's all good to mock NRN / Sudha Murthy, our generation doesn't realize the advantageous position that their efforts have put us in, and we should be grateful for this. They are the giants on whose shoulders we stand as we build for India 2.0, the fastest growing EM economy, with a fairly well developed startup ecosystem and public markets.

Shleemypants

IBM

6 months ago

Its same for every nation too. People make great example of how USA has diverse income sources like IT, military, space, etc., but all forget it was possible because of one thing, the saudi agreed to trade crude oil only in dollars, every country kept their reserves in usd. If saudi pulls of from the agreement us will fall in hours if not days. Same way every country have some or the other leverage like this that they are holding on to run their country.