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30 million people travel on local inter-town Indian buses every day

Nitin Sharma · The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India · Jul 18, 2022 · at 41:34

Nitin Sharma highlights the massive market size and lack of digitised user experience for small-town bus transit in India.

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“There are three crore people who travel in these buses every day and their experience has not changed.”

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