Start-up India: 5 best quotes from Uber's Travis Kalanick

The Uber co-founder had some pithily phrased wisdom for India's start-up ecosystem

Travis Kalanick, Uber's co-founder  & chief executive
Travis Kalanick, Uber’s co-founder & chief executive
BS Web Team Mumbai
Last Updated : Jan 16 2016 | 5:07 PM IST
Travis Kalanick, Uber founder and the poster-boy of Silicon Valley for the pathbreaking taxi-hailing app, had a lot of advice for the Indian start-up ecosystem. Here are his top 5 quotes from the Start-up India event that was launched in New Delhi today. 
  • World will never get anything until you sell something great with storytelling
  • As an entrepreneur, get used to the life of kind of growing against the grain
  • We are creating modals of cars that travel across cities so that they can drive autonomously
  • Always be jugaading
  • Coded from a beach in Trivandrum for 4 weeks, 10 years ago for a small startup, says Uber CEO


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First Published: Jan 16 2016 | 4:17 PM IST

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