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SeedToScale | Curated by AccelMasterclass #1: How TaxiForSure built a successful marketplace by combining data with intuition | Decoding MarketplacesAbout TaxiForSureTaxiForSure, founded in 2011, was the outcome of a drunken conversation in a Bangalore pub between friends Raghunandan G and Aprameya Radhakrishna, who had both been to National Institute of Technology Karnataka and the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad. Raghunandan was 33 and Radhakrishna a year older. Three-and-a-half years after it started up in a 100-square-feet office in a Bangalore suburb. TaxiForSure was acquired in March 2015 by bigger rival Ola Cabs, which paid $200 million in a cash and equity deal as it attempted to fend off competition from Uber. By August 2016, TaxiForSure was gone after Ola integra...2022-10-311h 15