Bengaluru residents are used to encountering varied experiences while travelling in the city. These experiences can either leave you pleasantly surprised or rudely shocked. A similar incident happened with Manasvi Saxena, who found out that his Uber auto driver was working with a popular fintech company. Taking to the microblogging site X, formerly Twitter, Saxena shared that the driver was the Chief Growth Officer at UPI app Juspay and also did user research for auto app Namma Yatri.
"My Uber auto driver tonight was the Chief Growth Officer at Juspay, doing user research for Namma Yatri. If this isn't peak Bengaluru then what is," reads the caption of the post shared by Saxena.
"It wasn't any specific question but the flow of the entire conversation. It didn't feel like a user interview but a casual chit chat and yet he asked all the right questions. I only got suspicious because the conversation was well articulated there was no telling," Saxena further wrote replying to a user's question.
A LinkedIn search showed that the auto driver, identified as Shan M S is an IIM Bangalore graduate and has been associated with the fintech company Juspay for the past 2 years.
"At Juspay, leading growth & and international biz on a mission to make payments open, fast, reliable and affordable. Building NammaYatri, an open mobility initiative to empower drivers and create sustainable urban mobility," reads his bio.
HiveMinds, Cure.Fit, Bounce and CBO are some of the companies e has also been associated with.