Bhavish Aggarwal, hailed as India’s answer to Elon Musk, has built three unicorns valued at over a billion dollars each before turning 40. But beneath the nationalist rhetoric lie financial engineering, broken promises, and a trail of burnt investors, workers, customers and taxpayers.

An Unflattering Story About Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal rips open the meteoric rise and impending collapse of an empire that straddles ride-hailing and consumer services, electric mobility and artifi cial intelligence. With meticulously presented evidence, the authors expose how regulatory apathy shielded dangerous shortcuts in Ola Electric’s scooters, exploitative schemes that trapped drivers, questionable use of taxpayer-funded subsidies, and alleged code theft.

With insider accounts and sharp analysis, the authors ask: What price are we paying to chase unicorns?

Essential reading for our digital age.