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The man who found opportunity in a bitter experience
Bhavish Aggarwal, Co-founder, CEO, Ola Cabs
We face very bitter experiences in some situations and they leave us with lot of pain which is very hard to digest, but many of us feel depressed or helpless at the times, but unlike us the 29 year old IIT – B Grad – Bhavish Aggarwal, who saw the opportunity in the pain and turned the tide in their stride and built a successful company called OLA, the cheapest taxi service in India today. His success is an inspiring tale for all the young entrepreneurs in the country. Let’ s have a look into it.
LIFE BEFORE OLA
Born in Ludhiana, Bhavish just like every other success-driven and successful entrepreneur, has began at a very early age. Soon after he completed his Bachelors in Technology( Computer Science and Engineering) from IIT – B in 2008, he started his career with Microsoft Research India as a Research Intern and later got reinstated as an Assistant Researcher. During his more than two years of stint with Microsoft, Bhavish managed to file two patents and also got three papers published in the international journals.
Now what many aren’ t aware is that, while he was at it, he had also turned into a blogger and had founded his own prodigy called – desitech. in. Desitech was all about hosting content which was mainly focused at technologies which again were inclined towards the Indian scenario. This content was a collection of start-ups in India, events and / or any other exclusive news. Anyways, during this same time, he took the biggest decision of his life and turned his personal pain-point into his first entrepreneurial venture!
HOW THE JOURNEY OF OLA BEGAN
After quitting Microsoft, Bhavish started an online company which dealt into selling of short duration tours and holidays online. Now while he was at it, he happened to rent a car from Bangalore to Bandipur and had a lasting bad experience. The driver of that car stopped right in the middle of the road and started re-negotiating the while deal. When Bhavish refused to agree to his terms, the driver proceeded to abandon him en route
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