Story of Uber: A Rainy Night & a Cab

 

Story of Uber: A Rainy Night & a Cab

It is not that any other day a new business idea pops up in your mind and it becomes a success. It takes you to be at the right time and at the right place to get this done. That’s what the owner of Uber actually did.
Once night when coming out of a cinema, it started to rain. The CEO of Uber was drenched, he kept calling for cabs in the area, but no one came. At that time, an idea came to his mind. What if there was a way to call cabs through your smartphones?!

That was the day and today is the day. Uber is worth $10 billion and rising. The only reason for this is because the CEO of Uber didn’t just neglect the idea when it came to him, saying that ‘Naah! That would be a flop idea!’ instead the person created an app. Started with 30 cars in the area and then turned it to a global player in the car-pooling market.

Uber is just one example of a business that started from a rainy night outside cinema. Think about all the businesses that you get every other day! Think about what more you can achieve with all the ideas that are coming to your mind at different times. What if you can just work on a single one of them? What if you can make it work?

Take this Uber story as a challenge for yourself and find an idea that you are truly inspired to work on and simply make it work. You may need investment, you may need consistency and dedication, so start small. But if you work on your desired idea today, you can make something innovative that will help people down the lane.

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