'Doors of Jio campus are open for anyone who would like to visit': Akash Ambani

Reliance Jio Infocomm chairman Akash Ambani

Reliance Jio Infocomm chairman Akash Ambani on Friday said that the doors of Jio campus, a campus that sprawls across 500 acres and has world class facilities, are opened for anyone who would like to visit.

While speaking at the Mumbai Tech Week event, Akash Ambani said, "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."

Akash Ambani was responding to a question asked by Harsh Jain, CEO of Dream 11, during a fireside chat, on the size of the "mammoth" Jio campus and the number of people that are there.

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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. We now host, the campus itself hosts about 25,000 people out of which Jio on its own host about 10, 10 or 12,000 people that are living there. And I think the impact of Jio is one, you know, we are going to be on the forefront of technology and platforms and ecosystems that enable that. 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. I open its doors for anyone who would like to visit our campus," Akash Ambani said, to which the host asked, "Wow. For real?" and he said, "Yeah".

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