02 Aug Uber News: Uber for trucks: Has Porter cracked on-demand trucking?
Synopsis
On-demand trucking has seen a high mortality rate and many pivots. How Porter emerged as the largest player, and what lies ahead?
Not all IITians are meant for regular jobs, especially the ones from business families. And it’s safe to say Pranav Goel is one of them. After graduating from IIT Kharagpur, he could barely stay with Cognizant for six months before moving to JP Morgan for an analyst’s job. But these jobs “did not feel right”. Goel, who hails from Gandhidham near the Kandla port in Gujarat, finally found his calling in trucking and started Porter in 2014.There
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