Dartmouth MBA grad creates ridesharing network in India

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Returning to India from Seoul, South Korea, for Diwali last year, Arunprasad Durairaj had to make a stop in Bangalore to meet a friend before heading to his family in Chennai.

The city’s heavy traffic caused him to miss the bus. Briefly stranded, he had his share of transport woes before he could get home. Recounting the experience to a friend, he was aghast when she said: “I drove my Alto to Chennai on the same day, empty seats and all.”

Years of entrepreneurial experience in the US, where he ran a business of producing biodegradable plates for mass supply as part of his Dartmouth MBA degree, kicked in. The 30-year-old, who had joined Samsung’s merger and acquisitions department in Seoul soon after his management course, thought of an idea that could commercialize carpooling.

His carpooling program, Zinghopper.in went on stream on October 17. (Read more here)