Niche technologies, smaller IT companies will make a big splash: Romal Shetty, Deloitte India

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The second one is being technology-enabled even in those days, when tech was not so big..

You will see some key niche technologies for example able to make that big impact and you will see some of the ones that you saw 10 years back now but in a much faster way get to $1 billion,$2 billion much faster than probably 10-20 years back and we see some of those real gems coming out of India...

One of the things, we have done a study sometime back, of course, captured the 30 most successful companies in the world.. 30 years ago, tech revolution was tremendous..

So when you have a particular scale then you are able to make your big bets, you are able to put things into places where you are able to acquire companies...

For example, you have a balance sheet so you are able to do some of those things that other companies cannot but also sometimes the bigger you are, the harder you fall..

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