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Intercity bus routes lack usage frequency to build sticky consumer apps
“I think intercity use case is not that frequent use case. You know, how many times would you go to Delhi Chandigarh or Delhi Jaipur, right? You'll go once a year, twice a year. So it lacks that frequency to build a sticky consumer product.”
Rajul Garg wrote the first investment check into Shuttl in 2015
“When we invested, so we, I was the first check back in 2015”
Khattar: Shuttl pivoted from intercity shared Innovas to intracity point-to-point transit
“Initially, of course, Shuttle was trying to, thinking of running intercity micro buses, which are Innova's in a shared
Way.
And I think we did a little bit of brainstorming and discussion.
We realized that the larger opportunity might be Intracity, which we di…”
Khattar: Indian transit had an unaddressed market gap at 75-100 rupees
“Private mobility or when you're commuting to work in your own four-wheeler used to cost about three to 400 rupees a day, back and forth.
Uber or Nola at that time, in spite of being highly subsidized, would also cost somewhere around that price point.
And pub…”