{"id":958981,"date":"2025-09-03T08:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958981"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:16:30","slug":"driveu-cofounder-ashok-shastry-steps-down-after-decade-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/03\/driveu-cofounder-ashok-shastry-steps-down-after-decade-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"DriveU cofounder Ashok Shastry steps down after decade of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashok Shastry, cofounder and board member of on-demand driver aggregator DriveU, stepped down from day-to-day operations of the company at the end of July. He continues to serve as a member of the board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This decision was not an easy one\u2014DriveU has been the heart of my professional life for the past 10 years\u2014but it is purely a personal one. My stepping away is independent of the company&#8217;s performance and strategic direction, both of which remain strong and on a positive trajectory,&#8221; Shastry wrote in a LinkedIn post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashok Shastry, cofounder and board member of on-demand driver aggregator DriveU, stepped down from day-to-day operations of the company at the end of July. He continues to serve as a member of the board of directors. &#8220;This decision was not an easy one\u2014DriveU has been the heart of my professional life for the past 10 years\u2014but it is purely a personal one. My stepping away is independent of the company&#8217;s performance and strategic direction, both of which remain strong and on a positive trajectory,&#8221; Shastry wrote in a LinkedIn post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}