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Shradha Sharma writes

The first time Bhavish Aggarwal walked into the YourStory office more than 12 years ago, he was still a budding entrepreneur, excited to demonstrate the Ola Cabs app on his phone for me and the team. Today, as he walks me around the Ola Electric campus in Krishnagiri, Hosur, a 500acre stateoftheart facility aptly named the 'Future Factory', he is every bit as eager and energetic as he was at 24.

Between then and now, the IITianturnedentrepreneur's business interests have expanded. From connecting passengers with cabs and offering fintech services, the 37yearold has ventured into building electric vehicles, making cells, and setting up an AI company.

He expects to launch two IPOs next year.

Matrix Partners India's Avnish Bajaj calls Bhavish a "digital industrialist", and it is a fitting moniker.

0:00 Intro
0:50 Part 1 Making a Difference
4:17 Ola Manufacturing Facility
5:42 Female Workforce
8:36 Expansion and Scalability
11:52 The Path Traveled
17:45 Relationship with Investors and toxic work culture
23:01 Achieving Remarkable Growth
25:48 Confronting Adversity
27:09 Establishing an InHouse Cell Innovation Center

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ABOUT SHRADHA SHARMA:

Shradha Sharma is the Founder & CEO of YourStory. She started YourStory in 2008 to tell stories of entrepreneurs something that mainstream media was not ready to do in 2008. Since then, Shradha has scaled YourStory to become one of India's leading digital media platforms covering every aspect of India's new economy.

She was featured on Fortune's list of the best 40 under 40 entrepreneurs in India for three years in a row. In 2018, she won the Forbes Power Trailblazers award and was twice featured on LinkedIn's list of powerful influencers, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and actor Priyanka Chopra.

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