Internet-oriented companies are very much here to stay. There are north of 50-60 million users in India, even by the most conservative counts, which was not the case the last time when people got excited about the Web. Several billion dollars worth of transactions have already happened on the Web on travel sites. That, again, has never been the case earlier. There is no difference in the advantage of using the Net in India compared with anywhere else in the world " whether it is access or cost of the medium. There is a whole lot of data that backs up the fact that we are actually past the inflection point from the perspective of the adoption of the Net. So, in my mind, there is not an iota of doubt that the Internet, its usage and several business models on top of it are here to stay.
In India, a lot of things have changed. People have started spending real money online. If you look at the travel companies today, they are selling several billion dollars worth of products online. Three or four years ago, the number used to be practically one-fifth or one-sixth of what it is today. If you consider e-commerce companies, two years ago, there were hardly any. Today, I personally know of seven or eight companies that together sell more than $1 billion on an annualised run rate basis.
Now, is that as big as the US? Not by a long stretch. That
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