India has more car owners than parking slots, and Amit Lakhotia is building a super app to allay their everyday woes
Amit Lakhotia has seen it firsthand, like many others. On most mornings, while working as a vice president at Paytm in Noida in 2015, Lakhotia would struggle to find parking for his car. “There were days when I would call for a meeting at 10 am and would be struggling to find parking at 9:50 am,” he says. “Inevitably, you are always going around in circles hoping that you find a slot. At that point, you don’t care about the price of parking, and you just want to finish with the hassle because the whole thing is stressful.”
(This story appears in the 02 December, 2022 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)