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Exactly. All the media hogwash about 'brain drain' flowing back to India....nobody smart enough is going to go live India to start a startup. It's like trying
by chailatte 15y ago
Exactly. All the media hogwash about 'brain drain' flowing back to India....nobody smart enough is going to go live India to start a startup. It's like trying to fight your schizophrenia while living in a bomb shelter in a war zone. At best these entrepreneurs are going back briefly to setup offshore office in India before hightailing out of there. And from personal experience, offshore teams aren't that great...the smart ones left India already.
- prateekdayal 15y ago>the smart ones left India already Actually thats the other problem :) There is so much focus on "brain drain" that people have almost come to believe that the rest of us in India have no brain. There is so much hoopla about getting people back to India and very little about people who just stay back and never move out.
- abhaga 15y agoI returned to India 3 years ago. I have other friends and people I know who have come back since. Many of them are doing startups. Others are working in academia. Not a single one is setting up offshore offices or looking to fly back (AFAIK). These are mostly young guys returning soon after their studies. But media hype is perhaps not about these people. It is about people who are coming back after 10-15 years of career in US, have families and a reputation to carry. In this segment, I know many who have come and gone back, after establishing the Indian centers of their employers. :) So depends on who and what you want to see.