# Professor Aswath Damodaran predicts that ridesharing app Lyft's agreement with Didi Kuaidi may trigger more ridesharing partnerships in Asia

1 Faculty News September 16, 2015 ![Reuters logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030503.jpg?itok=0OAgrDF0)>

Excerpt from [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/17/us-lyft-didikuaidi-partner-idUSKCN0RG2O620150917) -- "'I wouldn't be surprised if GrabTaxi and Ola were also part of this partnership to bring India and South East Asia into the mix,' said [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), an industry analyst and professor of finance at New York University's Stern School of Business."

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