Gurgaon has been often called Millennium city and like Bangalore compared to Silicon Valley. I chose Gurgaon as the home for both start-up I founded i.e. ShopClues.com and Droom.in. I chose Gurgaon as the base because I found minimum talent pool, near to one large international airport and attractiveness to be in capita city and its economic contribution. In hindsight choosing Gurgaon was a good decision as I was able to team up with thousands of dedicated and smart people, found dozens of new friends and was able to create to very large-scale technology companies. So, in all I cannot complaint.
However, Gurgaon has long way to go if it really wants to be millennium city. The single biggest drawback of Gurgaon is that it has no credible infrastructure when it comes to roads, water, sewerage, and electricity. In my view the city must invest in infrastructure with 50 years to 100 years in horizon vs. 3-year horizon. Besides, mobile and Internet connectivity in the city is significantly worse than any of the world’s top 50 cities. Gurgaon also has serious problem of public transportation. One more thing you can see very clearly if you spend six months or more in Gurgaon is that it is progressive city when it comes to entrepreneurship, foreign investment and overall economic contribution by the private sector but government led initiatives would consistently disappoint you. In my view, if Gurgaon does not take care of all these issues, the city will loose its attractiveness to many other cities. Finally, not sure why Gurgaon does not have parking for high rise buildings or public places or most frequently visited places.
I feel Gurgaon was lucky for me and I will always be positively biased for Gurgaon. However, the infrastructure, Internet bandwidth, mobile infrastructure, parking and public transportation in this city has be among the best in the world for this city to maintain its attractiveness.
