Reliance Jio Infocomm chairman Akash Ambani announced on Friday that the doors to the Jio campus, which spans 500 acres and has world-class amenities, are open to anybody who wishes to come.
At the Mumbai Tech Week event, Akash Ambani stated “The national scale that Jio gives you, the impact that you can create on this nation and really that entrepreneurship mindset that is there is something that I’m very, very lucky to have witnessed every single day that I go office and like Harsh said, we have a wonderful campus.”
In a fireside chat, Akash Ambani was answering a question about the scale of the “mammoth” Jio campus and its population posed by Dream11 CEO Harsh Jain.
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Ambani said, “Yeah, well, you know, our campus is right here in the city. With the new infrastructure in the city, it’s very easy to get to. It’s about a 40 minute drive from the location that you are at.”
He also added that the campus itself hosts about 25,000 people, out of which Jio hosts about 12,000 people that are living there.
Ambani also added that the impact of Jio is that they’re going to be at the forefront of technology, platforms and ecosystems that enable that.
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View AllHe stated, “And that’s really our mission at Jio. And we can when not that old a company.”
“I spoke about the entrepreneurship culture within Jio and to really do that at a national scale is something that you can get, you know, working at, working at Jio. And like I said, we are in our head, we are the world’s largest startup and that’s a struggling series, a kind of startup just Getting our rounds and just, you know, have to go to Bangalore to find a couple of bucks,” he added.
During the fireside chat with Harsh Jain, he added, “It (the campus) sprawls across 500 acres. It’s kind of inspired. Isha did a lot of work to build that campus. It is, it is kind of inspired. Like a college campus. You know, there’s world class sporting facilities, you know, electric culture, hyper collaboration and meeting spots where you can connect, collaborate with each other. And that’s the kind of culture that we’ve tried to enable at Jio. And it’s right here in Mumbai.”
When Akash Ambani remarked, “I open its doors for anyone who would like to visit our campus,” the Harsh Jain exclaimed, “Wow. Really?” and Ambani replied with “Yeah.”