Bhavish Aggarwal

Companies need to weed out drivers who dont drive well or have got poor ratings from the customers. ”

With a strong focus on driver-partners and the community at large, we aim to create a high-quality and affordable travel experience for citizens and look forward to contributing to a healthy mobility ecosystem in Australia. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Our first 100 rides took us one-and-a-half years from the time we started in January 2011. It was only after that we started scaling up rapidly. ”

China rightly identified consumer Internet as important and moved to protect it, and we need to do the same in India. ”

We are very excited about launching Ola in Australia and see immense potential for the ride-sharing ecosystem in a country which embraces new technology and innovation. ”

Not all of Microsoft's businesses are successful, but they have every technology possible. ”

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