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{Uber} union {Ola}. Who is the smartest of all?

During a recent visit to Bangalore in Karnataka, India which I was visiting for a day after several years I took the app based taxi ride. In India the major players are Uber and Ola . While they have their share of customer dissatisfaction (cancelled rides, driver misbehavior, high peak charges and tonnes of other thing), what struck me was to ask a question as to  who are  the smartest  people who are part of this app based taxi infrastructure  As you would have guessed, it was prompted by an incident. While I have made no attempts to look up the people structure of either  of these two app based taxi companies, the hand sketch grossly captures the structure,  the cone makes up for all the people (managers, market researcher, developers - both software and algorithm, ...) who work for these companies, CEO included! and  the square that is primarily the people who drive these taxi It is fair to assume that the cone is made up of specialized people (Enginers, MBA, Researchers, etc