Jio, every mention
67 scenes · ← back to Jio
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Siddhartha Ahluwalia 27Farooq Adam 7T. V. Mohandas Pai 4Deepak Shenoy 4Anand Chandrasekaran 4Somesh Dash 2Sharad Sharma 2Pratik Poddar 2Nikhil Kapur 2Lal Chand Bisu 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Jio comes up
He Built "GPT For Shopping" And Got 450M+ Users | Naveen Tewari
- ▶ 1:24 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, in Mobi, built Glance, raised from Soft, uh, Softbank, then raised from Reliance Jio.
How Anjali Sardana Built a $200M Company in 1 Year
- ▶ 59:01 Anjali Sardana One is, I will say, like, people who tried this very early on, let's say before, even pre-COVID, let's say, but like, especially pre-Geo, um, people didn't have mobile phones, and even if they had a mobile phone, they didn't have data. 2 times in the scene
For the CEOs of 2026, From One of India's Top Leaders | Roopa Kudva, Ex-CEO Crisil
- ▶ 13:27 Roopa Kudva That was also the time when Jio had come in and data costs had come down considerably.
Why Finding Your ‘Rapido Bet’ and Surviving Your ‘Meesho Miss is the Best Job | Pratik & Brij
- ▶ 24:40 Pratik Poddar There was obvious wave of geo penetration.
Why Stripe Paid $150M For A Young Indian Startup | Saurya Prakash Sinha, Recko
- ▶ 8:33 Saurya Prakash Sinha Uh, my co-founder Prashant was with Jio, um, and I think, uh, he was also facing some very difficult problems.
Lightspeed’s $500M Bet On India With 1/3rd In AI Companies | Dev Khare | Neon Show
10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
- ▶ 21:23 Avnish Bajaj If you look at the evolution of what started happening in 2016, Jio is well known.
Zerodha’s Move Into A ₹68 Lakh Cr Industry | CEO Vishal Jain On Expanding India’s 8% Investor Base
- ▶ 33:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia UPI got started, uh, because of Jio, the spread, uh, of mobile internet and hinterlands became very popular.
Global Investor Matein Khalid On World Economy | The Neon Show
- ▶ 8:40 Siddhartha Ahluwalia With Jio. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:43 Matein Khalid Like whether it's GEO or whether it's startup powers, uh, renewable power, whether it's, uh, uh, whether it's some of the other Adani companies.
BigBasket Co-founder on 10 Min Delivery, TATA Acquisition, Wealth Creation & More | Neon Show
- ▶ 3:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You mentioned at that point of time, your prediction that there'll be four large online grocers in India, big basket, Amazon, Jio,
Real Money Gaming Business Explained By Zupee Founder Dilsher Malhi | Neon Show
- ▶ 32:27 Dilsher Malhi So Jio is a perfect example that they are practically creating and winning the entire ecosystem.
Modi Govt Vs Raghuram Rajan, 1991 Finance Team, & India’s Brain Drain Challenge I A.K. Bhattacharya
- ▶ 1:04:58 Siddhartha Ahluwalia But Jio able to replace because of low tariff, such a large institution and so many retrospective taxes coming on Vodafone, it will not give foreign companies confidence that, hey, we can, we can build a large company in India.
Is Quick Commerce Future Of Retail & India's IPO Market- Investment Banker Explains on The Neon Show
- ▶ 7:56 Kashyap Chanchani Uh, company, sorry, companies like Jio, they would end up doing an IPO in India, right?
Watch This BEFORE Buying Banking Stocks I Deepak Shenoy I Capitalmind I Neon Show
- ▶ 1:31:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And last time in a podcast, we discussed about Jio and Jio financials ranked seventh in the most active stocks in India.
How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj
- ▶ 14:34 Siddhartha Ahluwalia This was before Gio.
ISB and Ashoka University Founder, Pramath Raj Sinha on The Neon Show
- ▶ 27:52 Pramath Raj Sinha Uh, Jio is probably going to try.
UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show
- ▶ 9:21 Sharad Sharma And no matter how good Jio becomes, or how good Airtel becomes, they won't become a Juniper, or a Cisco, or a, or a, uh, or a Nokia, or a Ericsson, because they are fundamentally different DNAs for innovation.
- ▶ 27:18 Sharad Sharma Because today Airtel and Jio are amongst the largest operators in the world.
FUTURE of Indian Jobs, India Subscription Model & Life Lessons | Kuku FM Founder on The Neon Show
- ▶ 4:32 Lal Chand Bisu Beech mein kya waha ka, eeg dem se internet ka adoption bhaha because of geo.
Watch This BEFORE Renting Out Your Property In India! | SEBI Manager Deepak Shenoy on The Neon Show
- ▶ 0:22 Deepak Shenoy It's Reliance Jio.
- ▶ 11:38 Deepak Shenoy And while I own it, it's Reliance Jio. 3 times in the scene
Infosys Ex-CFO: Nehru Vs PM Modi, India’s Future, Corruption I Mohandas Pai on Neon Show
- ▶ 24:49 T. V. Mohandas Pai And then came Mukesh Ambani, who did Jio. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:39 T. V. Mohandas Pai But in a departmental store or geo, I did realize retail where back-end is all there and physical is missing.
Breaking Down India's B2B Digital Payment Ecosystem with Cashfree CEO Akash Sinha
- ▶ 35:12 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So India grew leap by leaps and bounds when Jio was long because the first problem was how do I bring these all people who can shop in these merchants in which will enable more.
Status-driven Indian Society, Learnings, & Building For Bharat- Lal Chand Bisu, CEO, Kuku FM
- ▶ 6:28 Lal Chand Bisu What happened was that the internet adoption increased because of GEO.
The PLAYBOOK To Win The D2C Market Ft. Abhishek Goenka, Head & CIO RPSG Capital Ventures
- ▶ 12:43 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Then Jio coming, right?
- ▶ 24:31 Abhishek Goenka With the advent of Jio, I think the entire tier three, tier four story amongst investors kind of, you know, lost the way.
The Secret Behind BharatPe’s Massive Success ft. Shashvat Nakrani & Suhail Sameer
- ▶ 6:31 Shashvat Nakrani UPI has been into tier three, four cities, you know, in villages, with Jio coming in, giving internet access, with demonetization, with the COVID doing contactless payments.
How A 23 year Old Created A $8M Yearly Revenue Content Marketplace Business ft. Anirudh Singla
- ▶ 6:10 Anirudh Singla And at that time, Jio had just come in and felt content will be massive.
How did Bipin Preet Singh Build a 540 Crore Fintech Product(Mobikwik), with 120M users?
- ▶ 40:52 Bipin Preet Singh The economy of where it is, right, and the formal financial system, and the technology push, uh, which includes, you know, not just a direct setup, but also geo and smartphones and everything, which is, uh, obviously happened in a big way.
How He Built A ₹7,000+ CRORE Logistics Tech Company! ft. Co-Founder of Shiprocket, Saahil Goel
- ▶ 12:01 Saahil Goel And the market, obviously, in the meantime, you know, there was a pre post geo world.
Rajesh Jain On The Country’s First Dot-Com Acquisition For $115M!
- ▶ 27:03 Rajesh Jain Because of Jio, we have now a large number of internet users available.
@firstcheque7252 CEO on Early Stage Investing and investments from founders ft. Kushal Bhagia
- ▶ 38:58 Kushal Bhagia has an account, everybody has a smartphone, everybody has Jio.
From Bootstrap to IPO ft. Rajdip Gupta, Founder, Route Mobile
- ▶ 34:59 Rajdip Gupta And if the data is going to play a big role, if the data company like Jio coming at them, uh, you know, offering data services is not cheap.
How @JoshTalksLive went viral in India? ft. Co-founder, Supriya Paul
- ▶ 4:27 Supriya Paul Coincidentally, uh, you know, the geo revolution that also started to take place at that point of time.
Journey of Reliance acquiring Fynd, with Founder, Farooq Adam | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- ▶ 0:32 Farooq Adam Talk to all the people, uh, who build Jio with me, because they are the same people who will be, you will be working, uh, when you, when you will be building, uh, Jio mod. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:42 Siddhartha Ahluwalia FINE was acquired by Reliance.io and set a trail-based example of how Indian entrepreneurs scale and sell to Indian enterprises and continue to make a large impact.
- ▶ 21:15 Farooq Adam Uh, this is still pre, pre, pre geo.
- ▶ 34:07 Farooq Adam Uh, and this is before Jio, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:49 Farooq Adam Why don't you go and talk to all the people, uh, who build Jio with me? 2 times in the scene
Inside the mind of Jumbotail Founders, Ashish Jhina & Karthik Venkateswaran | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 29:37 Karthik Venkateswaran Uh, and, you know, we, we were asked some questions around that, and, you know, uh, we never expected a geo windfall and all of this stuff, but then with conviction, we started one night, uh, I said, Ashish, you know, enough of planning,…
If you don't monetize your hobby, it will die.- Abhishek Asthana on Creativity & Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 6:02 Abhishek Asthana And of course, geo effect, as I say, also came in, I guess, 16 and, uh, everything came together.
Inside the mind of Krishna Kumar, Founder, CropIn- the largest Agritech SaaS startup of India
- ▶ 24:51 Krishna Kumar It took long because as I mentioned, you know, the, actually the ad tech picked up after 2015 when the Reliance was launched.
Ankur Bansal, BlackSoil Capital on Venture Debt funding in the Indian Startup Ecosystem
- ▶ 2:01 Ankur Bansal Again, we had sort of financed and also companies like now floats, which was sold to geo.
Nikhil Kapur, STRIVE Ventures on different SaaS models in Asia
- ▶ 17:55 Nikhil Kapur And definitely, you know, the geo movement that has happened in India has enabled, like, adoption and digitization of these SMEs. 2 times in the scene
Sajith Pai, Blume Ventures on building personal brands, being open-minded, and unlearning to succeed
- ▶ 35:05 Sajith Pai Jio and digitalism.
Pratik Poddar, Nexus Ventures on the Growth & Monetization of EdTech Startups in India
- ▶ 5:50 Pratik Poddar Uh, so, so it was a confluence of, uh, smartphone penetration increase, uh, uh, faster internet, uh, because of Jio, uh, payment infrastructure being large enough, uh, and, and, and, and payment penetration in the country being large…
Ishpreet Gandhi, Stride Ventures on the emerging role of Venture Debt in the startup Ecosystem
- ▶ 10:50 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So Ispit, help me understand when the largest startup in India, I would call Jio to be the largest startup in India today, who has raised fifteen billion dollars for 25% of, uh, their dilution. 10 times in the scene
Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- ▶ 51:53 Somesh Dash We're seeing, um, the money pour into GEO, which is just a fantastic success story in India. 2 times in the scene
Understanding Exits and Investing in High Growth Startups with Dhruv Kapoor, Sistema Asia Capital
- ▶ 31:23 Siddhartha Ahluwalia There's been a recent news of, you know, NetMeds getting acquired by Reliance Geo for 130, hundred and forty million dollars, and, uh,
Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
- ▶ 10:14 Anand Chandrasekaran Fantastic leader got to work with Gopal pretty closely, and the charter was, ah, if, if you see today what Reliance Jio is doing, ah, Siddharth, so Airtel was, ah, had, had sort of, ah, seen, ah, the coming of Jio, ah, in a few years, ah,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:07 Anand Chandrasekaran Um, same, same with Kata book, you know, they've emerged as a operating system for the merchant, um, as a geo
- ▶ 23:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Find got exited to Reliance Jio, Innovate got exited to Oyo Rooms.
- ▶ 42:04 Anand Chandrasekaran Uh, I would say with Gopal, uh, the, the thing that I learned was, um, that, uh, you know, he was truly one of the best leaders I had seen who could go from being incredibly long-term oriented and incredibly strategic, uh, like, you know,…
Pankaj Makkar, Bertelsmann India Investments, on Investing in Growth Stage Startups
- ▶ 6:59 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And one of the large exists for Burstman includes Savan, if I'm right, by Jio. 3 times in the scene
Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- ▶ 35:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia For example, uh, metal acquired by Mercer, Minjer cloud acquired by Nutanix, taxi for sure acquired by Ola, now floats acquired by Geo.
Vaibhav Domkundwar on his early stage bets and importance of organic growth in startups
- ▶ 13:41 Vaibhav Domkundwar Because we say, Hey, you know, we've got about five hundred million, uh, Indians who have a geo data connection on their smartphones.
Episode 53 | Hemant Mohapatra, Partner, Lightspeed India Partners
- ▶ 7:23 unnamed speaker Um, a lot of things also changed in 2016, you know, obviously after Jio happened, uh, which made a bunch of stuff that was a daily hassle for living in India, kind of just completely go away, right?
Episode 44 | Kitty Agarwal, Partner, Info Edge Ventures
- ▶ 21:04 Kitty Agarwal One is, of course, geo-making data accessible to all.
Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient
- ▶ 14:48 Anand Lunia Uh, Jio came and all our retention numbers, everything changed dramatically.
Episode 50 | Sameer Brij Verma, Nexus Venture Partners
- ▶ 24:04 Sameer Brij Verma You know, a lot of things have happened over the years, which have kind of led to that, you know, whether it's a geo effect, payments, all of that has, has really added to, added fuel to the fire.
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 46 | Tej Kapoor, Fosun RZ Capital
- ▶ 30:54 Tej Kapoor So I think the future of internet in India is definitely going to be like China, because people will start, we have already seen with Jio, the speeds are very good.
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
- ▶ 32:21 Rajul Garg I think the third was this 14, 15 onwards, right, which is sort of, um, uh, as sort of people are expecting Gio to come in, it came and sort of now it's blown up the internet users.
When your competitors raise heavily from VC's | Mayank Khanduja, SAIF Partners
- ▶ 5:38 Mayank Khanduja Of course, Jio coming in helped a lot.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 7 | Rehan Yar Khan, Managing Partner, Orios Venture Partners
- ▶ 21:01 Rehan Yar Khan So I think certainly what we are calling India two, India three, India four will become very large because with Chandan, Aadhaar, Jio, having driven a lot of penetration into these areas and a lot more people coming online, whether it's in…
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 23 | Raja Ganapathy, Co-Founder Spring Marketing Capital
- ▶ 40:59 Raja Ganapathy So, and that's primarily Jio.