Ritesh Agarwal Quotes

Ritesh Agarwal

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 16, 1993

We are building OYO to be the preferred hospitality brand for consumers in the new post-COVID reality.

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Hygiene is going to be a key consumer question post-COVID. Our sanitized stay offerings and commitment towards ensuring minimal contact-based check-in is an important step.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I had gone from a small town in the eastern corner of India to San Francisco, and I was very lucky to get that.

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We are the first company anywhere in the hospitality sector to introduce technology-based solutions to the suppliers side to help them manage operations.

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Oyo is not a market place. Oyo is a fully fledged hotel chain that leases and franchises assets.

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We have partnered Highgate to create our first key flagship property in Las Vegas - Oyo Hotels & Casino.

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Capital is always available for good companies, but the only question is value at which you raise capital. In bad times, you raise capital at low valuation, and in good times, you get a fair price. It separates winners from the rest.

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Customer expectation and need was quite limited when we started in 2013.

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What we are unlikely to do as a leading brand space is just buy revenue or partnership with hotels.

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Everybody has a dream of being the most impactful company in their segment worldwide.

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I started my life on the ground selling sim card, telecom products and so on and learned a heck of a lot doing that.

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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.

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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.

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One big learning from Thiel fellowship was think really big and create an impact, without thinking if anybody has done it before.

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We have, at various levels, invented how hospitality experiences would look like. At lot of levels, we have transformed how the hospitality experience would be by processes and technology.

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We want to be a daily brand but not once-in-a-while brand.

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Our focus area would be recruiting people along with building great technology as well as building a great brand.

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