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Returning to India in 2003 to research the state of IT in the post-Y2K environment there was great uncertainty about what to expect. Though the Indian software sector had not been too badly hit, it had been weakened. Surely spirits would be dampened and the feeling of exuberance and hype that permeated the country in 1999 would have dissipated. Yet, it only took one or two interviews to realize that the post-Y2K downturn in the West had had a positive effect on India and that the country’s IT sector was in the grip of another upsurge.
India is penetrating America’s core… We can barely imagine investing a company without at least asking what their plans are for India. India has seeped into the marrow of the Valley.
— Michael Moritz quoted in Businessweek
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Greenspan, A. (2004). Peripheral Competencies. In: India and the IT Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510371_7
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