After a report, while citing employees, called Ola's work culture "hostile" and stated that CEO Bhavish Aggarwal used Punjabi epithets at staff and told them they were "useless", Aggarwal said, "My style is more aggressive than probably the average new-age entrepreneur." He added, "A sports environment is not where you have a nine-to-five (work). Ola is a place for...ambitious...people."