Overview
- At Columbia Business School’s India Business Conference in New York, K. T. Rama Rao pitched Telangana as a fast-growth model for investors and the Indian diaspora.
- He cited IT exports rising from ₹57,000 crore in 2014 to ₹2.72 lakh crore in 2023, with tech jobs growing from 3.23 lakh to nearly 10 lakh.
- He pointed to Hyderabad’s scale in life sciences, saying the state makes about one-third of global vaccines and about 40% of India’s bulk drugs.
- He highlighted big campuses by Amazon, Google, Apple, Meta, Salesforce, Uber and Micron, alongside state-built hubs like T-Hub, WE Hub, T-Works and TASK that backed unicorns such as Skyroot, Darwinbox, Zenoti and HighRadius.
- In a separate Columbia session, he warned that AI will upend jobs and urged a shift from copy-paste models to homegrown innovation with stronger skills and more founders.