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Uberfication of delivery boys

Shadowfax, an intra-city logistics firm that hires delivery boys to work on a part-time

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Gotama Gowda

Apurva Venkat Bengaluru
Akshaya Annappa, 24, was looking for a job through a friend. He was introduced to Shadowfax, an intra-city logistics firm that hires delivery boys to work on a part-time, freelance and full-time basis. Annappa has been working for the portal as a full-time rider for the past one year and earns Rs 18,000-20,000 a month for nine hours of work.
 
Shadowfax was started in April 2015 as a hyperlocal logistics company, catering for the food sector, but on the strength of its growing clients it has today become an intra-city operator for a diverse set of clients. “We work

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