14: Lunch with Leon episode 14 - Bhavish Aggarwal
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After a bad taxi experience in 2011, Bhavish Aggarwal resolved to do something better. The result was to co-found Ola Cabs in India.\\xa0
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In 2015, along with co-founder Ankit Bhati, they were the youngest to be included in that year's list of richest Indians.
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\\xa0Since then, Ola Cabs has expanded to Australia, New Zealand and now London.
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Last year the company was valued at \\xa36.5bn and at 35-years-old Bhavish is one of the world\\u2019s most successful young entrepreneurs.\\xa0
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In conversation over Lunch with Leon Daniels he opines that the pandemic will not alter travel in the long term, although the modes will change: \\u201cThe human need to travel is very deep in us; it\\u2019s not going away,\\u201d he says.
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\\xa0\\u201cThe pandemic will force an acceleration in innovation in mobility,\\u201d says Bhavish. \\u201cWe cannot envisage what it will be like in 10 or 20 years\\u2019 time,\\u201d before going on to discuss some of the potential.
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\\u201cThere is so much stuff that\\u2019s happened in the last 10 years, that hadn\\u2019t happened in the previous 50 years. I\\u2019m very excited and enthused about the next 10 years.\\u201d
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He also talks about what sets Ola Cabs apart from its competitors and how one platform (the app) does everything, from buses to taxis, to home delivery.
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The next development is Ola Cabs\\u2019 own design of electric two-wheelers that are now being launched across the world, and he expands on how software and hardware are being brought together into one solution
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There are also messages for young people who are thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, and he tells us why \\u201cnow is the best time to start a business.\\u201d
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