Ep42: Digitizing Household services ft. Urban Company

<p><strong>Raghav went to study in the US not knowing what to expect. Living there was an entirely new experience for him.</strong></p> <p><strong>Even simple things like purchasing groceries had some technology involved for increased convenience.</strong></p> <p><strong>He worked in the Bay Area as a software engineer at emerging startups including Yelp &amp; Twitter. After 2 years, he realized the world outside SF was full of opportunities, with many problems yet to be solved, and decided to come back to India.<br> <br> Having witnessed the era of emerging marketplaces like Airbnb, Uber transforming the US service sector, Raghav wanted to do something similar. He started his first business in the ride-hailing space which didn’t work out.</strong></p> <p><strong>After a few months, he met Abhiraj &amp; Varun at dinner through a common friend. The 3 of them discussed startup ideas late into the night and arrived at creating a marketplace for gig workers.</strong></p> <p><strong>Thus, Urban Company was born.</strong></p> <p><strong>Being in a highly competitive space with 60+ startups at one point in time, UC eventually emerged as the leader owing to its focus on quality user experience and mission to empower the workforce.</strong></p> <p><strong>Today, UC has 32000+ trained professionals and has served over 5M happy customers.<br> </strong><br> <strong>For more visit: </strong><a href="https://ajuniorvc.com/podcast/" target="_blank"><strong>ajuniorvc.com/podcast</strong></a><strong><br> </strong></p>