In his address to 200 CEOs here, Dell also spoke of a very competitive startups ecosystem in India which has left many countries behind in this regard. "India is purely in the green category and gets an A or A+ of creating entrepreneurs."
"India needs to create jobs if it wants to maintain its rapid pace of GDP growth. It has enormous natural resources in terms of young population, particularly in the IT sector which has a bright future in India," he said.
He said there was a need to set up world-class universities to attract top domestic and international companies that would look for educated and talented workforce while establishing their businesses across 100 smart cities being developed by the union government.
"I think first you start with the universities because you don't find anywhere in the world great companies without great universities," Dell said.
"Without great universities, it is really hard to have the basic talent to grow great businesses," said Dell, whose observations at the event were released by ASSOCHAM today.