Ola’s Bhavish Agarwal To Cut Down On Western Cloud Service Over Microsoft & Linkdeln’s Woke Policies

The CEO of India’s biggest cab-riding app OLA has recently called out LinkedIn and Microsoft for their woke policies.

Taking to X, Mr Agarwal announced, that he is planning to develop an Indian tech platform and shift its operation from Microsoft’s Azure cloud service.

He further announced that he aims to reduce reliance on western tech platforms and further enhance Indian digital space.

“I’m not against global tech companies. But as an Indian citizen, I feel concerned that my life will be governed by western Big Tech monopolies and we will be culturally subsumed as the above experience shows. This is not about Ola or any of my companies. Ola is too small to make any impact against this. I want to confront this forced ideology as a free-thinking Indian and do what I can in my capacity. So here are the actions I’m taking. Putting my money where my mouth is.” said OLA’s CEO.

Also, Bhavesh Agarwal further plans with Indian developers to establish platform leveraging ONDC’s principles and UPI’s.

Under this framework, he’ll first focus on user control and data ownership. Thus, transferring the power in creators’ hand.

Further, he also emphasized that he would shift its workload from Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to Ola’s Krutrim cloud service.

In order to incentivize developers for the usage of Krutim cloud services, Aggarwal also plans to give extension of one-year free trial. Followed by the continued platform usage beyond initial period.

Earlier too, he criticized the presence of non-binary pronouns in western tech platforms. Citing an instance, where Linkdeln’s AI, made use of gender-neutral pronouns to describe him.