today JIO lists on the stock market and honestly i owe this company more than any stock i'll ever buy
if JIO wasn't there in india
i wouldn't be where i am today
let me explain
before 2016, 1gb of data cost ~₹228
the average indian used ~240mb a month
the internet was something you "checked", not something you lived on
then jio came
free internet. then the cheapest data in the world
₹228/gb became ~₹8/gb
215 million people joined in under 2 years
i was one of those kids
a kid from rajasthan with a budget phone and a ₹149 recharge
no connections. no fancy degree. no plan but i had unlimited data
so i watched youtube till 3am
learnt marketing by breaking things
found crypto twitter before my friends knew what bitcoin was
started posting. started building. started getting paid on the internet
today the average indian uses 25gb+ a month
and i'm a gtm marketer in dubai working with teams across the world
none of this happens without cheap data
jio didn't just sell sim cards
they handed a whole generation of indian kids a shot
and today they ring the bell
grateful forever
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