Quotes from Ritesh Agarwal

I love Mark Twain's words - 'I've never allowed college to interfere with my education.'

We want to convert broken, unbranded assets around the globe into better-quality living spaces.

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.

We build OYO with basis of building a team which is not just great for our segment, but we possibly have the best team any start-up can possibly have.

The reality of a startup is you have failures very often.

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.

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

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.

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?

We actually distribute using AirBnB because they're the vacation management company and they distribute us, which is why AirBnB is also a small shareholder in our company.

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.

My home has three-tier security, which is valuable to me considering I get five death threats a month.

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.

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

Whether it is unbranded hotels, branded hotels, whatever it is, anywhere where a customer can get an experience that is subordinate but for a price that is equal or higher than the market, we want that to change.

When you scale up your business there will invariably be small groups of vested interests unwilling to see the new ground reality.

Our first cultural attribute is over-communication rather than under-communication.

I was a small-town boy with big dreams.

At the end of every year our management regroups and thinks about things we did right and what we could improve.