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Uday Kotak Recalls How Reliance IPO Lit Up Marine Drive
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News18•15-10-2026, 17:08
Uday Kotak Recalls How Reliance IPO Lit Up Marine Drive
- •Uday Kotak shared an interesting anecdote about the 1977 Reliance Industries IPO when Marine Drive was brightly illuminated.
- •Kotak stated that seeing the grand promotion at age 18 had a profound impact on his decision to enter the financial services sector.
- •He expressed lifelong gratitude to Dhirubhai Ambani for recognizing that real power lies in raising capital from ordinary investors.
- •Kotak praised the leadership of Akash Ambani and Isha Ambani, noting that Reliance is repeating history after nearly five decades.
- •He highlighted India's massive digital transformation over the last decade, transitioning from data scarcity to an abundance of data.
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Uday Kotak recalled that when Reliance Industries launched its IPO in 1977, the entire Marine Drive up to Chowpatty in Mumbai was brilliantly illuminated with lights, which deeply inspired him and influenced his career path in financial services.
Kotak highlighted that India transitioned from having limited and expensive data with fewer than 10 million 4G subscribers to reaching 1 billion 4G and 5G users, transforming the nation into a place of abundant data thanks to Jio.
