13-year web designer schoolboy sells his company

A thirteen-year-old Indian  IX standard school boy, Akshat  Mittal, of Amity International School,  in sector 44 Noida, in Delhi, India, creator of odd-even.com., which matches individuals to potential ride-share in the direction of their commute, sells his company to  Indian ride-sharing company Orahi.com for an undisclosed sum.

The website designed by him in December 2015, just before Delhi government launched the odd-even rule from 1st January 2016,  allowed people going the same way to pool cars and commute.

Delhi, World’s most polluted city, decided to experiment with car restrictions with a view to reduce air pollution, and the scheme bans private cars on alternative days, allowing cars with odd-numbered plates to run on odd dates and those with even-numbered plates to run on even dates. Since then Taxi apps led by Uber and Ola Cabs have been aggressively promoting carpooling. Mittal’s Odd-even.com had over 30,000 users at the time of its acquisition,