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At a superficial level - yes

Both grew up in India before migrating to US so understand India very well

In reality

Sundar Pichai - no

Satya Nadella - yes. This guy is a @#$#$ genius. And Indians have a lot of respect for smart people who deliver results

So, Indian Goverment is not owned by Reliance

However, all things being equal Indian Government would prefer an Indian company like Reliance owns the keys to the kingdom, rather than some imperialist cunt like Bezos or Zuckerberg

So now these imperialist companies have no choice but to team up with Reliance

Bezos' plans in India are screwed, though, by the way

WalMart/Flipkart was good competition and still #1

However, JioMart is basically as vicious and happy to do illegal things as Bezos and he has all the connections in India

So India can be written off completely for Amazon retail

Bezos' only choice now is to partner with Ambani as a small stakeholder

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Not going to downvote, but Reliance is equally "imperialist" in terms of where and how it can express market dominance.

Imperialism is a function of nation-states, not corporations.

Most nations have "national champion" corporations that work with the nation's government to promote/influence other nations. US/Boeing, EU/Airbus, France/Bull, etc.

So calling Bezos/Zuckerberg "imperialist" while Pichai/Nadella are somehow not is ridiculous. These are CEOs of corporations. All corporations are "imperialist" in that they are attempting to gain "market" against their competitors and they will co-opt their associated nation-state to help that.

Corporations are amoral by definition.

> JioMart.

Recently ordered a few items on it. A toothpaste, some Almonds.

It came in a paper bag, wet from rain, soggy and a mess.

However there are two things that are massively in favor of JioMart.

Reliance already has about 11,000 stores in over 6700 cities. These are called "Reliance Fresh" and are quite popular. JioMart is using these stores to send orders to and deliver them.

The costs for capital and expenses for these stores are already done and most of them are profitable.

All JioMart is doing is to consolidate the stock information, take orders and push orders to appropriate stores.

What’s the point of censoring a curse word. Genuinely curious ?

It's only strange to me given that what I consider an even stronger swear is used two paragraphs down from that. I'm not sure if that's due to cultural differences though (I'm American, but I don't know where GP is from).

I was just curious and asked a genuine question but instead got the HackerNews downvote. Maybe it is because of my username people think I am trolling?

FWIW, I didn't downvote you; I share your curiosity here, just with some additional context I wanted to provide

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