Is Rapido trading passenger safety for growth?
September 7, 2023
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Episode 117 · September 7, 2023
Is Rapido trading passenger safety for growth?
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Is Rapido trading passenger safety for growth?
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<p>Lately, India's bike taxi leader, Rapido, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. With numerous complaints of sexual harassment, theft, and even impersonation, the startup has been reckless with the safety of its customers, epecially women.</p><p>Despite these incidents, Rapido still enjoys a 60% share of the bike-taxi market in India. It clocks in as many as 750,000 rides every single day and yet, the level of scrutiny it deploys for the drivers on its platform is close to non-existent.</p><p>What’s is the bike-taxi not fixing these issues? </p><p>Tune in to find out.</p><p><strong><em>Free Read</em></strong></p><p><a href="https://the-ken.com/story/how-dominos-defied-the-might-of-zomato-and-swiggy/?utm_s[%E2%80%A6]web&utm_medium=podcast_twentyfour&utm_campaign=daybreak_dominos">How Domino’s defied the might of Zomato and Swiggy</a></p><p><em>Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of </em><a href="https://the-ken.com/"><em>The Ken</em></a><em>, India’s first subscriber-only business news platform. </em><a href="https://the-ken.com/pricing/"><em>Subscribe</em></a><em> for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories.</em></p>
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