- Published on February 10, 2025
- In Global Tech
The Rise of Uni-Unicorns
As India’s digitisation and cloud push fuel unicorn growth, AWS is aiming to invest $13 billion in infrastructure by 2030.
Image by Diksha Mishra
- By Siddharth Jindal
India is on the brink of a new era in entrepreneurship—one in which billion-dollar startups would be created and scaled by one person rather than a founding team. Jeff Barr, AWS’s chief evangelist, believes AI-powered tools like Amazon Q Developer will fuel the rise of “uni-unicorns”, turning solo founders into global tech disruptors.
India’s Developer Goldmine
On his visit to India, Barr was struck by the sheer scale of the country’s developer community. With companies like TCS, and Infosys housing over 300,000 developers each, the numbers dwarf even major global tech hubs.
“Coming from Seattle, where the whole city has a population of 900,000, it’s incredible to see a single company in India employing nearly a third of that,” Barr remarked in an exclusive conve
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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