Bolt: The Next Lightning In A Bottle For E-Hailing?

Afzan Lutfi, General Manager Malaysia, Bolt

10-Dec-24 08:00

Bolt: The Next Lightning In A Bottle For E-Hailing?

Pause
Embed

The e-hailing industry in Malaysia has been largely dominated by Grab for a long time now, but will Bolt be the challenger that will measure up to the task? Philip See speaks to Afzan Lutfi, General Manager of Malaysia at Bolt to talk about competition in the industry, automation, driver acquisition and more.

Produced by: Jake Lim, Natalie Tan

Presented by: Philip See

This and more than 60,000 other podcasts in your hand. Download the all new BFM mobile app.

Categories: sponsored content, Cars/Motoring, travel

Tags: bolt, driver acquisition, e-hailing, malaysia, automation,

Today’s Shows

11:00 AM

Best of Enterprise

(REPEAT) Jan Wong, Founder, Open Minds, on Malaysia’s Martech Digital Edge.

12:00 PM

Popcorn Culture

(REPEAT) We review One Battle After Another, Leonardo DiCaprio’s first collaboration with acclaimed director, Paul Thomas Anderson - and discuss your favourite of Leo's performances.

1:00 PM

Cruise Control

(REPEAT) We talk about the price war that's affecting the industry and the manufacturers that are selling their cars at discounted prices.

2:00 PM

Matt-Splained

(REPEAT) Matt and Rich debate how quickly AI has reached the threshold of deniability: the reality remix.

3:00 PM

Earth Matters

(REPEAT) A recent tiger poaching case in Johor highlights the urgent threats facing Malaysia’s national icon. We speak with Rimau founder Lara Ariffin about her organisation’s fight to protect the last Malayan tigers.

4:00 PM

Bar None

(REPEAT) We speak to a sport climbing coach and a skateboarder to learn how they train as athletes.

5:00 PM

BBC World Service

This episode of The Conversation features two filmmakers that are working on football-related movies.

PROGRAMMES