At 19, he drove a cab for $6 an hour—now his businesses bring in over $2 million a year: 'I don't think I'll ever retire'

Money Singh wasn’t excited about his move to San Francisco from Punjab, India, at age 19 in 2006.

“I was [depressed] for that one year. I wanted to go back,” says Singh, now 38, adding: “Socially, I was very alone.”

He initially attended college in the Bay Area, but dropped out after some of his credits from school in India didn’t transfer over, he says. His mom urged him to find a job quickly, so he worked a short stint at a local drugstore, then as a dispatcher for his uncle’s cab company making around $6 per hour, he says.

Singh spent the next 12-plus years working in the cab industry, first driving for himself before amassing a five-cab fleet, running his own dispatch company, then launching Driver’s Network, an advertising and marketing agency for independent drivers.

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