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The Men Every Man & Woman Need
Businessworld
|October 31, 2016
Handymen are rare to find when you really need one. Not with Zimmber though.
WHEN FORMER Infosys chief financial officer Mohandas Pai wanted to invest in Zimmber, the key attraction for him in the on-demand home services platform that trains its employees to deliver best services, was his passion for skilling people, says Anubhab Goel, the 35-year-old co-founder ad CEO of the Mumbai-based startup. The online venture works on the principle of ‘the right guy, doing the right thing, at the right time and at the right price’. If it deviates even a little from this, the business will be at risk.
Zimmber, came out of a simple thought that if buying things online was getting popular day-by-day, why can’t services be provided online.
This story is from the October 31, 2016 edition of Businessworld.
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