Co-Founder of Armenian Taxi Company Talks Entrepreneurship with AGBU Summer Interns

GG is a holding company that has embarked on many different projects. Since 2014, the company’s focus has been on its app-based taxi service.  Grigorian co-founded GG Taxi in 2014 in Yerevan. According to Grigorian, in 2015, one year after its launch, GG was filling about 300 orders per day. He joked that GG’s drivers were earning more money than the company itself. He explained that the taxi service was struggling to the point where GG was investing all of its money from other projects back into the GG taxi service because, he said, “we believed in our future.”

By 2016 the taxi service was filling 3,000 orders per day. Now, he proclaims proudly, “GG is filling more than 20,000 orders per day in all its locations, a 700-percent increase from 2016.”

Grigorian also admitted that the company is losing about 20,000 orders per day due to cancelations and other issues.

Grigorian proclaimed that “GG plans to solve all Armenian public transportation problems in the coming years.”

What makes GG Taxi unique is the types of transportation it offers. It has vans, moving trucks and vehicle transport trucks in addition to all of the usual options you would find on the Uber app such as regular cars, luxury cars, and even exotic cars.

GG is currently operating in 15 different cities throughout Armenia, Georgia, and Russia and is in the process of expanding into the United States. Grigorian talked about his plan to launch GG taxi service in Glendale, Pasadena, North Hollywood, and Venice, all areas where there are dense populations of Armenians.