Bhavish Aggarwal Quotes

Bhavish Aggarwal

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 28, 1985

In 10 years of being together - 6 while dating and 4 in marriage - my wife has never once complained about my physical or mental absence in our relationship.

Bhavish Aggarwal

All things can be done by every company in the world. Apple builds a phone, and so does Samsung. It's not about being different but about being better at what you do.

Bhavish Aggarwal

If we launch a new product, we have to time it right. It's not about how soon you can do it but how well we can do it.

Bhavish Aggarwal

Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.

Bhavish Aggarwal

Maps help us in tracking our cabs - if they're idle, headed for a booking, or in the midst of a trip. With custom systems built atop maps using available APIs, we are able to manage our inventory extremely well, predict ETAs for customers, and optimally allocate the nearest cab to a booking request.

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Challenges keep evolving as you move into different stages. When you are at a prototype stage, it's about getting that sustenance money. Then, talent becomes an issue; your early hires are difficult to get when you aren't too big. Later, it's about handling growth; then, you have competition.

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We have built many of our systems with maps as the foundation. We are seeing that a lot of intelligent businesses are doing the same.

Bhavish Aggarwal

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

Bhavish Aggarwal

If we want, we can be profitable, but we are focusing on growth. We don't comment on profitability, but we do look at it internally. And many of our Ola cities are profitable. But our focus across all cities is growth.

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As an entrepreneur, I am focused on my business.

Bhavish Aggarwal

As far as Ola is concerned, we are focused and determined to build a business that can sustain and be impactful.

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As entrepreneurs, we sometimes do not understand the complexities of running a government.

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Globally, ride sharing is a very intense industry with a lot of money being thrown around.

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There are many people who think we had the first-mover advantage. But actually, when Uber came to India, Ola was doing only 2,000 rides per day . We had less than half a million dollars of funding.

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The value that SoftBank saw in us was that we are a technology company in the mobile Internet space.

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As we scale, we will be able to drive the business with more efficiency, which will allow us to pass on more benefits to the consumers.

Bhavish Aggarwal

Compared to Uber, we have a much local business model. We allow the customers to pay in cash as well as use our prepaid wallet. We allow them to book through call centres and pre-book for future travels.

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Though we work with rental agencies, a large part of our fleet comprises individual drivers.

Bhavish Aggarwal

In so many ways, our business is very, very unique. For example, in India, people pay with cash, and we accept cash from day one. And a lot of people in India pay with cash. And that's part of our business model.

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Safety is top priority for us, and all our drivers are fully certified; all of them are checked. Their addresses are checked. Backgrounds are checked. To whatever extent the Indian system makes it possible to check.

Bhavish Aggarwal