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Last month, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=uber&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Uber</a>, one of the most popular <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=taxi+hailing+apps&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">taxi-hailing apps</a> officially launched its services in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=pakistan&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Pakistan</a> at Rs 13.7 per km. While the base-fare remained at Rs 100, the company has kept the per-minute charges at Rs 3.7. 
 As of the moment, the <keyword id="1042120" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Uber">Uber</keyword> services can be availed all over <keyword id="6580" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Lahore">Lahore</keyword> and the company intends to make them available in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=karachi&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Karachi</a> and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=islamabad&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Islamabad</a> over the next few months. 
 
While, Pakistanis in general have taken to Uber in a big way already, however they're not the only one reaping benefits of the company’s expansion in the country. 
 Word is, <keyword id="3268932" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Uber-Pakistan">Uber Pakistan</keyword>’s drivers are bringing home massive earnings. 
 
According to figures that were made public last week, these drivers have earned an average monthly income of Rs 100,000 in this short period. 
 
Additionally, Umair Saif, the renowned Pakistani <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=entreprenuer&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">entrepreneur</a> and scientist cliamed that the top Uber Pakistan driver took home a whopping Rs 130,000. 
 
All this in just a month. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
	
		Map of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Uber?src=hash">#Uber</a> trips in the first month in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lahore?src=hash">#Lahore</a>. Lahoris lapping up tech; top Uber driver made around Rs.130,000. <a href="https://t.co/0QgW2urm82">pic.twitter.com/0QgW2urm82</a>
	— Umar Saif (@umarsaif) <a href="https://twitter.com/umarsaif/status/722858557062799360">April 20, 2016</a></blockquote>
 
He also tweeted a map of all the trips that Uber made in its first month in Lahore. 
 
An Uber spokesperson confirmed the fact, saying “There is a driver who successfully maxed out our income charts by making around Rs 130,000 in only 30 days, which is impressive.” 
 
One reason of their high earnings could be the fact that at the moment Uber has a relatively less number of cabs plying in the city- and as has been noticed, the demand for an Uber is unbearably high. This trend could well wear drown once Uber increases its fleet in Lahore. 
 
Presently, Uber has started out with 100 drivers/cabs in Lahore and is offering its UberGo vehicles in Pakistan which include Suzuki Swifts, Toyota Vitz, Toyota Corollas and Honda Civic among others. There is also the economical Uber Pool that allows two or more people to share a ride and split the fare. 
 
The company aims to offer luxurious cars under UberBlack and UberLUX later. 
 
Image credit: Shuttershock

Uber Pakistan’s top driver made Rs 130,000 in just 30 days

Thomson ReutersA Saudi woman showing the Careem app on her phone in Riyadh in January 2017.<ul class="summary-list"><li>Uber finalized its purchase of the Dubai-based ride-hailing app Careem for $3.1 billion earlier this month.</li><li>Careem is the biggest ride-hailing app in the Middle East, with one million drivers operating across 90 cities in 15 countries. </li><li>While in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, I took a Careem to see why it was so popular, and so attractive to Uber.</li><li>My experience was excellent on the whole, and I won't be surprised to see several Careem features migrate to the Uber app soon.</li><li>Editor's Note: Business Insider has blurred the faces and other identifying details of the drivers mentioned in this story. It has not blurred the faces of drivers in file and stock photos.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul>Uber completed a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ceo-email-to-employees-about-careem-acquisition-full-text-2019-3">$3.1 billion takeover of the Dubai-based ride-hailing app Careem</a> earlier this month.Careem is a wildly popular service only available in 15 countries across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This means Uber now has a firm monopoly over the ride-hailing game in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, Egypt, Pakistan and Qatar.I was in Saudi Arabia earlier this month, and took the chance to try a Careem to see what the hype was about. Uber is also available in the kingdom.Here's what it was like to ride Careem in Saudi Arabia, and the key ways it differed from taking an Uber in the US and UK, as well as Saudi Arabia:Axel Springer, Insider Inc.'s parent company, is an investor in Uber.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/10-up-and-coming-fintechs?IR=T&amp;itm_source=businessinsider&amp;itm_medium=ctgr_bii&amp;itm_term=ctgr_leadgen&amp;itm_content=uber&amp;itm_campaign=10-up-and-coming-fintechs-2"></a>

I took a Careem, the ride-hailing app Uber snapped up for $3 billion to dominate the Middle East. It was clear why Uber wanted it.

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">S3studio/Getty ImagesMudassir Sheikha, co-founder and chief executive officer of Careem, speaks on stage at a conference in Hong Kong.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/careem">Careem</a>, a Middle East-based ride-hailing service, is hoping to stave off Uber's global expansions. </li><li>CEO Mudassir Sheikha spoke to Business Insider about the company's advances on driver safety, deliveries, and more. </li><li>The company is betting its investments in mapping thousands of miles of road in the region will give it a leg up on any global competitors. </li></ul>When the founder of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/careem">Careem</a>, a Dubai-based ride-hailing company, traveled to his hometown of Karachi in Pakistan, his own mother urged him not to use the app to travel from the airport. "She's like, this is not safe. People will know where you live!," CEO Mudassir Sheikha told Business Insider in an interview. Such attention to regional concerns and cultural nuances has underpinned the company's growth to now cover more than 120 cities in the region, from Morocco to Pakistan - and what Sheikha hopes will be enough to keep global competitors, namely Uber, from dominating the Middle East like it has so many other markets. But scaling up a unicorn company in a region relatively removed from the world's tech startup scene hasn't been without its quirks. Cash, for one thing, still rules the region's consumer marketplaces, while security and background check processes aren't as simple as they might be when building a product in the West. "If you land in a place like Dubai it feels very much like a Singapore or a London or maybe even a New York," Sheikha said. "The hard infrastructure is remarkable. But when it comes to soft infrastructure, things like customer service and technology platforms is quite lacking. "A lot of the building blocks you need to enable a service like Careem - such as maps or payments systems - you almost take them for granted [in developed markets]," said Sheikha, who met his cofounder, Magnus Olsson, in Dubai while both on assignment for the consulting firm McKinsey <h2>74,000 kilometers of roads to map</h2>Google Maps exists in most of the markets Careem operates in, but in many cases it's crowd-sourced and littered with inaccuracies. That's a problem when your main product involves shuttling people between places.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image on-image">FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty ImagesAn employee of Careem, a chauffeur driven car booking service, talks during a training session for new female drivers, known in the company as 'captains', at their Saudi offices in Khobar City, some 424 kilometres east of the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Saudi Arabia's decision to allow women to drive had some sounding the death knell for ride-hailing apps like Careem, but its co-founder expects business to flourish and even plans to hire thousands of female drivers.</div></div></div>"We not only had to build mapping infrastructure, we had to build our own places database because Google was not complete nor reliable," Sheikha said. "Neighborhood by neighborhood we have actually gone into our cities and mapped every building, every villa, and every shopping mall in order to provide an accurate location for pickups and dropoffs."Where Google Maps might be able to give you a street name, Sheikha says Careem can show you the exact Villa where you are being dropped off or picked up. <h2>Cash is still king in the Middle East </h2>Careem also had to build out a payment infrastructure for the Middle East, where cash still makes up a majority of payments by consumers. Having drivers - called captains, out of respect - carry loads of cash is a huge liability, and getting the company's cut back to its coiffures was even trickier. "Cash might seem like a simple option in the app, but to enable it at scale required a lot of work, Sheikha explained. The company assigns credit limits to captains based on their history driving on the platform. Those limits decide how much cash one driver can collect before having to deposit the company's cut. Careem's algorithm can then prioritize credit card trips to let the accounting work out for commissions. Drivers can also arrange a rendezvous to move cash, in a move that could foreshadow Careem's plans to enter the payments and remittances space, a huge industry in the region. "We're creating a collection system through our own captains," Sheikha said. "Let's say you are new and I'm an old captain and have a lot more credit history than you do. If you get blocked because your limit has been hit and you need to give the money to Careem, you can give me your $20 that you need to give Careem and continue to take fares." <h2>The safety issue might be trickier</h2>Multiple Careem drivers have been killed in recent months, and Sheikha spoke candidly about how the company is working to improve safety for both riders and drivers. Background checks, while not automated like many in the US, are exhaustive. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty ImagesSaudi national and newly licensed Reem Farahat, an employee of Careem, a chauffeur car booking service, prepares for a customer shuttle using her car in the Saudi capital Riyadh</div></div></div>"Before we on-board a captain in Pakistan, they go through a three-point background check," Sheika said. "We literally go to their house and put a GPS coordinate on it. Most people here come from villages but are working in the city so we do the same and put a GPS pin on their home in the village. We ask the local police station, ask the local shop owner [for references]." Many of the same things customers have come to expect from a US ride-hailing company are also available for Careem captains, like an emergency button and special hotline for support. Many Uber drivers in the US have complained there is often no direct way to reach the company when issues arise, and cases can take weeks to sort through. "Safety has become paramount for us," Sheika said<h2>Delivery has always been huge in the Middle East</h2>And Careem is hoping it can tap into an already booming market. "We have a region that has relatively high levels of unemployment, labor is relatively cheap, and our infrastructure is relatively congested and inconvenient," Sheikha said. "Almost all restaurants, superstores, pharmacies are already doing deliveries. Delivery is already a big part of the middle eastern lifestyle."That's in direct contrast to the US, where - with the exception of New York - many restaurants' first delivery options have been through service like UberEats or GrubHub. "The aspiration is the bring all this convenience in a more streamlined way," Sheikha said. "Our view is if we can start migrating some of the traditional ways that people have been using deliveries into a more consistent and reliable experience."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty ImagesCareem even delivers animals, especially during religious holidays when markets can be packed.</div></div></div>All of this, taken together, should be enough for Careem to stave off Uber, which is quickly encroaching on its territory as it continues to grow and rockets toward an initial public offering in the US this year. So far, it's in roughly 20 cities in the region, and Sheikha is betting the foundation his team has laid can maintain its market share dominance throughout the Middle East. "For a global to come in a start providing a service to the top 2% to 3% of the population is not difficult, they're used to the convenience," Sheikha said. "But as soon as you start going down the masses, you require a lot of tailoring."For example, "It took Uber almost 2 years to realize that very few people in this region have a credit card," he said. "That's a very basic thing. It's 101 in this region." <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-in-talks-careem-merger-2018-7">There were reports in 2018 that Uber was in talks to buy Careem</a> for its current valuation near $2 billion which did not pan out. For now, Sheikha seems content with Careem holdings its own - and says the company has the cash and ambition to continue to grow. "We are continuing to fundraise," he said. "We have enough cash on hand to fund our business plan, but our ambition keeps on getting bigger so we are getting into more things than initially anticipated." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-x-perfect-safety-crash-test-rating-2019-2">Why Tesla's Model X was the first SUV to receive a perfect crash-test rating</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

The CEO of Careem explains how the company is scaling up to beat Uber in a quickly growing market

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">GettyUber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Uber is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-buys-rival-careem-in-3-billion-deal-2019-3">buying its rival Careem for $3.1 billion</a>, it confirmed Tuesday.</li><li>The acquisition is a bid for dominance in a fiercely competitive region.</li><li>Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told employees that Careem will remain an independent brand.</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/Uber">Uber</a> is buying <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/careem">Careem</a>, one of its biggest competitors in the Middle East,<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-buys-rival-careem-in-3-billion-deal-2019-3"> in a $3.1 billion deal</a> for dominance in a highly competitive region.The deal was finally confirmed on Tuesday after more than nine months of start-and-stop negotiations. Careem will remain an independent brand, Uber said, but investors will be completely bought out through $1.4 billion in cash and $1.7 billion in convertible notes.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/careem-ceo-interview-on-competing-with-uber-in-the-middle-east-2019-2">In an an interview in February, Careem CEO Mudassir Sheikha explained </a>why it would be very difficult for Uber to reach significant scale in the region. In hindsight, his comments explain why the deal makes perfect sense for Uber."For a global player to come in and start providing a service to the top 2% to 3% of the population is not difficult, they're used to the convenience," Sheikha said. "But as soon as you start going down the masses, you require a lot of tailoring."For example, "It took Uber almost 2 years to realize that very few people in this region have a credit card," he said. "That's a very basic thing. It's 101 in this region."Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/careem-ceo-interview-on-competing-with-uber-in-the-middle-east-2019-2">The CEO of Careem explains how the company is scaling up to beat Uber in a quickly growing market</a>At the time, Sheikha ruled out an acquisition, and said the company was continuing to fundraise. That's clearly no longer the case.In an email to Uber employees, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called Sheikha and his co-founder, Magnus Olsson, "first-class entrepreneurs." Here's his company-wide email, as provided by Uber: <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-car-ever-sold-bugatti-la-voiture-noire-2019-3">Take a closer look at Bugatti's $19 million La Voiture Noire - the most expensive car ever sold</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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