Mumbai: Reliance Industries (RIL) Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani says India has the opportunity to become one of the top three economies in the world and every entrepreneur in India has the potential to become a Dhirubhai Ambani or Bill Gates.
He says in a fireside chat with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, it will happen in five years or 10 years and India will reach the top three countries of the world. Empowering small and medium businesses would be key to driving India's growth faster.
Ambani said that India has the opportunity to become the most technically enabled society where all the development could be powered by the tools of technology.
The RIL chairman said that empowering small and medium businesses would be key to driving India's growth faster.
At Microsoft's 'Future Decoded Summit' the RIL chairman said small, medium and micro enterprises provide 70 per cent of India's employment. They drive 40 per cent of India's exports. India has transformed tremendously over the past two decades — from a $300 billion economy in early 1990s to becoming a $3 trillion economy in 2020.
Congratulating Nadella for his leadership of the organisation, Ambani said that the collaboration between Microsoft and Jio would be a defining partnership of the decade.
Asserting that Microsoft's differentiated approach across the cloud and edge is winning customers, Nadella said that Microsoft now has 57 data centre regions in the world.
In India, Microsoft has three data centre regions Mumbai, Pune and Chennai besides a Cybersecurity Engagement Centre in New Delhi.
