TaxiForSure expanded from 3 to 45 cities in under 14 months
T. N. Hari · How did TaxiForSure get acquired for $200 million? | T. N. Hari, Advisor, Fundamentum · Jul 13, 2019 · at 37:30
T. N. Hari, Chief People Officer at BigBasket and former HR head at TaxiForSure, describes the company's rapid geographic scaling prior to its acquisition by Ola.
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“When I joined Taxi for Sure, we were in three cities when, in 14 months or 13 months when I left, we were there in about 45 cities. So we grew extremely rapidly.”
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