Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal supports Narayana Murthy’s 70-Hour Work week Advice

Bhavish Aggarwal, CEO of Ola, which offers cab services through the app, has supported Infosys founder Narayana Murthy’s advice of working 70 hours a week. Aggarwal told that he works seven days a week and 20 hours a day.

Last year, there was a lot of debate on Narayana Murthy’s advice of working 70 hours a week. Many people opposed this. There were some people in support of this also. Many business owners agreed on the need to increase productivity. “I fully support Murthy’s advice to the youth,” Aggarwal said. On joining the company after his exit from Infosys operations, Agarwal said, “I think he had to come back considering the condition of the company. He was successful in putting the company back in a strong position after his return. Was.” Narayana Murthy started Infosys in 1981 with the help of six software professionals. Nandan M Nilekani was also included among these software professionals.

Recently Ola has created its own mapping service. Earlier it was using Google Maps. Recently Ola left Microsoft’s Azure platform. Ola competes with Uber in the country. The company has said that by leaving the service of Google Maps, it will save about Rs 100 crore annually.

“After leaving Azure last month, we have completely exited Google Maps. We used to spend around Rs 100 crore on it. Our in-house Ola Maps With the shift to service, this expense has reduced to zero.” The company’s electric vehicle unit Ola Electric has intensified efforts to develop solid-state batteries for its electric scooters. Aggarwal had told that from the beginning of next year, Ola’s own sales can be used in the company’s electric scooters. The company is setting up a factory for this in Tamil Nadu.