Words matter. These are the best Ritesh Agarwal Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There are causes that are dear to me personally including encouraging entrepreneurship, improving livelihoods as well as helping humanitarian rescue and relief efforts.
In markets such as the US, China, we want to continuously improve our products and services to win market share.
Every weekend I would take a train to Delhi and sneak into startup events. I really enjoyed meeting entrepreneurs who were solving big problems. They were way smarter than me. I knew this is where I had to be.
For people who earn on an average about RS 15,000 a month and who travel a lot, if the salary is late then the landlord will throw him out. I know how life is after that because I have been there.
Post 10th grade, I came to the northern half of the country. I realized that the usual education did not excite me at all because I felt how will understanding trajectory motions in chemistry help me solve real-life problems?
Abhinav Sihna is my partner and the COO of Oyo, and is also the head of the United States division. He spends all of his time building out the United States market for us and has moved out here full-time.
As a responsible consumer brand, we have not just built for the short term, but build for longer-term relationships.
We have partnered Highgate to create our first key flagship property in Las Vegas – Oyo Hotels & Casino.
I was a small-town boy with big dreams.
As an entrepreneur and on behalf of the company’s management, I am thankful to have been given the opportunity to rededicate ourselves to the company’s mission of building the world’s most loved hospitality brand that is focused on bringing a better lifestyle for the common man.
I can speak Odiya, Telugu, apart from Hindi and a little bit of Rajasthani, so, truly Indian from that context.
Oyo has no plans for an IPO because we are focused on execution.
We are an asset-light transformative platform that converts sub-standard unbranded hotels/unutilized vacation homes into quality living spaces, with easy to book, hassle-free check-in experience.
Our first cultural attribute is over-communication rather than under-communication.
Strong focus on customer experience coupled with strategic investments in proprietary technology has helped us maintain a high net promoter score while empowering our hotel partners.
I was good at studies and played sports. The only difference was I had big dreams even as a child – I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur.
I started Oyo right out of my high school, with limited resources.
To provide affordability, we have made a few acqui-hires such as a data analytics firm to help us deliver the cheapest room prices in every town.
In our education system, we’re so focused on the building blocks that sometimes we try to keep the kids from looking at the larger picture.
One of the things that’s consistent, if you speak to hotel owners or customers across the world, is that the proposition of Oyo is very valuable for each one of them.
Customer expectation and need was quite limited when we started in 2013.
Leaders at Oyo aspire for ambitious targets which act as directional north stars for building for scale.
My mom is surely worried that the fact that I don’t have a college degree will impact my chances of finding a bride.
For me as a young kid, my parents took me to random cities. I stayed at my relatives and the biggest trouble I had was watching TV on my own.
We are building OYO to be the preferred hospitality brand for consumers in the new post-COVID reality.
I grew up in Rayagada in Orissa state in eastern India. Few people have even heard of it.
For me, it is about having a passion for solving a big problem and leaving a huge impact. Once you have that, everything else falls into place.
At heart, I am still the guy who loves tinkering with machines and writing code.
Everybody has a dream of being the most impactful company in their segment worldwide.
I started my life on the ground selling sim card, telecom products and so on and learned a heck of a lot doing that.
I started taking programming lessons at the age of 10.
Coorg will be the new Switzerland, Goa will be the new Thailand. If we predict these trends correctly, while market size may shrink, we will have a good opportunity to use our model.
The scale of impact that people aspire to create, based out of the Bay Area, is truly incredible.
My father ran a grocery store.
While one is in the process of coming up with a truly innovative solution, it is essential to keep an open mind.
SoftBank’s $100 million investment helped cement our reputation as a start-up with a promise.
My parents always wonder why I work round the clock and I never had an answer, until one day I came across a street full of Oyos. I saw so many families and friends on holiday there. This made me happy – life had come full circle in that moment!
COVID-19 is unlike any other challenge the world has faced, affecting people from every socio-economic background and causing a disruption in operations and processes across industries.
Small hotels are going to be in vogue. In my view, small is going to be the new big, wherein people will rethink a lot about going back to that 1,000-room hotel versus going to a 40-room niche hotel.
I dreamt of running my own business even as a kid, but if not a CEO, I would have probably been a pilot.
My home has three-tier security, which is valuable to me considering I get five death threats a month.
Masayoshi Son is one of the most innovative and impactful thinkers and problem-solvers of our generation.
We want to be a daily brand but not once-in-a-while brand.
Initially, when we were running just one hotel in Gurgaon, I used to handle housekeeping, sales, CEO duties, etc. I would literally wear the OYO Rooms uniform for housekeeping and would show the room to customers.
Long story short, right after my twelfth grade, the six months between school and university, and that is the time when I came to Delhi and I said that let me try and build a company of my own.