Magow: Indian rail bookings have reached approximately 87 percent online penetration
“So today if you look at market share of the, ah, or starting with let's say the online penetration of rail bookings, it is the highest, 87 odd percent, right?”
Magow: IRCTC commands 80 percent of Indian online rail bookings
“And if you break that into then IRCTC versus all the other OTAs, including Make My Trip Go, Ibibo, Redbus, others, Zig Ziggo, and the others, all of us put together will be 15, 20%. 80% is IRCTC.”
Magow: MakeMyTrip uses train bookings strictly for user acquisition
“So I'll tell you the, you know, all of us, what we are trying to do, you know, okay, maybe I can speak for myself, is more the customer acquisition. This is a new customer acquisition channel for us. Because the economics don't really work, right?”
Akash Sinha: Swiggy, Zepto, Cred, and IRCTC are Cashfree customers
“Actually, Swiggy is already a customer. Exepto is a customer. Dunzo is a customer. So there's a lot of customers we have from Hyperloop industry. ICTC is one of the big names that work with us. We have someone like, you know, as I mentioned, Cred is one of the…”
Market Leadership Is Useless Without Eliminating the Competition Entirely
“Market leadership in B to C or B to B, whether it is B to B to B, I don't think it makes a difference. If you do not have the advantage of basically eliminating completely the competition and taking all the profits away, which means become a monopoly like IRCT…”
Shenoy: IRCTC skyrocketed from a 3,000-crore IPO to 90,000 crores
“IRCTC, when it came out with an IPO, they said it's a 3000 crore company. This sounds a little expensive. Today it's a 90,000 crore company.”