Jio-poly and India's Gilded Age

Non-linear web Notebook to explore India's Gilded Age and Jio Platforms

Jio Fundraise

NirantK14th June 2020 at 11:01am

Who has Jio raised the money from?

All info here is best effort. Have a more to add? Tweet to me @NirantK:

BaseStakeAmountOther Notes
FacebookUS
KKRUS
MubadalaAbu Dhabi1.85%$1.2 B
Silver LakeUS2.08%$1.35 BGartner, Alibaba’s Ant Financial, Dell, and Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing
General AtlanticUS
TPGUS0.93%$600 M
Vista EquityUS
ADIAAbu Dhabi1.16%$750M

References:
Jio Platforms

Looking to understand the narrative about Jio Fundraise?

Narrative

At the heart of very synthesis, lies a narrative. This is neither complete, nor true.

Although I'm violating the tradition of Epistemic humility, I encourage you to check the Commonplace first for caveats first.

Here are the questions we want to ask:

Standard Oil:Rockefeller :: Jio:Ambani

  1. What was Standard Oil and who was Rockefeller?
  2. What helped Standard Oil become a virtual monopoly?
  3. What makes Rockefeller a useful metaphor for Mukesh Ambani's goals? The similarities, differences and place in time.
  4. What are the possible ambitions behind Jio Platforms?
  5. What makes Jio Platforms a force to reckon with?

We also touch

2020 Jio Fundraise

Who has Jio raised the money from?

All info here is best effort. Have a more to add? Tweet to me @NirantK:

BaseStakeAmountOther Notes
FacebookUS
KKRUS
MubadalaAbu Dhabi1.85%$1.2 B
Silver LakeUS2.08%$1.35 BGartner, Alibaba’s Ant Financial, Dell, and Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing
General AtlanticUS
TPGUS0.93%$600 M
Vista EquityUS
ADIAAbu Dhabi1.16%$750M
, but that is less interesting to me in the larger scheme of things.

India's Gilded Age

This is a topic which I may or may not explore - depending on my own time and curiosity trade offs.

If you have questions though, tweet to me @NirantK

  1. Fiscal Take: India's "House of Debt"
  2. Raghuram Rajan's PoV: The Role of Natural Resources and Resource-Raj
  3. Jayant Sinha's PoV: The 3 kinds of Capitalism
  4. Amartya Sen PoV: Income Inequality and Role of State