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The bad times in global technology firms will be scary but short. And India may benefit from the disruption. the last two years, Amazon, Meta, Twitter, have been poster-kids for aggressive upscaling. They invested in new ideas and experiments, anticipating exponential growth due to Covid-fuelled demand. Amazon’s headcount doubled to 1.6 million and Meta’s grew by 55%, between 2019 and 2021. This post-Covid push on technology was fuelled by significant liquidity and near-zero interest rates sustained by central banks, especially in the US.
By Jay PatelThe bad times in global technology firms will be scary but short. And India may benefit from the disruption. the last two years, Amazon, Meta, Twitter, have been poster-kids for aggressive upscaling. They invested in new ideas and experiments, anticipating exponential growth due to Covid-fuelled demand. Amazon’s headcount doubled to 1.6 million and Meta’s grew by 55%, between 2019 and 2021. This post-Covid push on technology was fuelled by significant liquidity and near-zero interest rates sustained by central banks, especially in the US.