By Vanita Srivastava
In an interview with ET Now on the sidelines of the 53rd annual general meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in the first week of May, investor Warren Buffett recalled a decades’ old conversation with Bill Gates. The Microsoft founder let on that, if he had just one university to hire from when he was building the tech giant, he would have chosen the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
If Gates was still building Microsoft today — he stepped down as chairman in 2014 to focus on philanthropy — he would have 23 IITs to choose from, as against just a dozen-odd in the ’90s. But the numbers coming out of these hallowed institutions would be just a drop in the Microsoft ocean which, at last count, had a workforce of close…
