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Bhavish Aggarwal’s story is sold as bold and scrappy, but the truth is he didn’t fight the odds—he was the odds. IIT Bombay grad, ex-Microsoft, born into a financially stable Punjabi family—he didn’t risk it all, he risked comfortably. Starting Ola wasn’t some leap into the unknown; it was a calculated pivot from a high-paying job with elite safety nets. He had the pedigree VCs worship: IIT tag, fluent English, and just enough “India story” to feel edgy without being threatening. Ola didn’t win because it was better—it burned mountains of cash, copied playbooks, and crushed competition with deep funding, not revolutionary thinking. Behind the scenes? Layoffs, toxic culture, botched EV rollouts, and workers treated like disposable code. Now he positions himself as India’s answer to Elon Musk with Ola Electric—burning billions while promising revolutions. But let’s be clear: Bhavish didn’t break the mold. He leveraged it, rode it, and was never in danger of falling off.

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