Reliance Jio

“What we are really actively looking for is companies which can bring these trends together, right? Whether it is through a commerce angle, whether it is through other engagement angles, or providing newer products or services to consumers which they did not kn…”

“After some time we did see a lot more strategic entering into the game as soon as they realized that this is a large market. And at that point we realized that the best bet we had to make sure that the company becomes fairly viable and sustainable is to join h…”

“And for, I think it was like, around like a 50, sixty million dollar exit. And so, you know, all the investors did pretty well.”

“Airtel was, ah, had, had sort of, ah, seen, ah, the coming of Jio, ah, in a few years, ah, and so in 2014 started to kind of preempt that and started to build out products, ah, and bring someone on board who had, ah probably never been at a telco, but I'd buil…”

“The reason why they've been able to raise equity right now is because debt supported them at the at the requirements, right? In the case of need debt was there. That's how you reach a scale. And that debt has made Jio in terms of a particular scale. And now Ji…”

“The real thing that changed for India and not just trading pretty much everything was one company. And while I own it, it's Reliance Jio. They brought cheap and very, very quick, big bandwidth to India at a relatively easy availability and easy low price.”

“Without the UBI wouldn't have happened. A lot of things wouldn't have happened. I think it's a phenomenal change in technology landscape itself because of that.”

“I don't think e-commerce would have boomed as much as it has without that one big revolution that happened.”