INSPIRATION
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Time Line
• 7AM: Get up and get to office
• 9AM: Look at detailed metrics for the previous day. Talk to city heads
• 11AM-8PM: The huge period of uncertainty.“ From here on till evening, my day is very unstructured. I have a broad agenda per day but given the real time nature of work, interruptions are many.”
• 10PM: Go home, finish work that required uninterrupted time, answer pending mail, plan for the next day
• 1AM: Sleep!
his destination. The entrepreneurial-headed Bhavish, instead of whining about the situation or rather the problem, decided to solve it good, and at large!
Because he got a first-hand experience of such a problem, after decent amount of research also realised that, this in actuality was a genuine and deep rooted problem for the masses. A lot of customers had fallen prey to such situations and were desperately in need of a quality cab service. That was when for the first time, he could envision the amount of potential a cab booking service could have. And after basic calculations, Bhavish changed his business from the earlier mentioned startup to – Ola Cabs. In December 2010, he joined with Ankit Bhati in his start-up journey, where his idea of introducing a technology that bridged the gap and connected the cab owners with the commuters through the Internet, telephone or a mobile phone app change the entire model of the business. On the other end, just like every starting entrepreneur, his parents too didn’ t support his new venture as well, and for them he was as good as a‘ travel agent’. Basically a lot of pressure, but
Ola Cabs in its early days; Now it has grown to > 400 people
nevertheless, their support increased as they got their first round of angel investment( from Snapdeal founder Kunal Bahl, Rehanyar Khan and Anupam Mittal.). Then on Ola was the collective prodigy of Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati and was officially owned by ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd, which translated to‘ Hello’ in Spanish!
WINSPIRE: Empowering youth | January, 2017