Ritesh Agarwal

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

— Ritesh Agarwal

One of the things that's consistent, if you speak to hotel owners or customers across the world, is that the proposition of…

— Ritesh Agarwal

When I go to colleges for talks, I encourage the students to drop out.

— Ritesh Agarwal

That's our thesis, to operate in a few places and make them home, rather than operate in many places and not have…

— Ritesh Agarwal

Oyo has no plans for an IPO because we are focused on execution.

— Ritesh Agarwal

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

— Ritesh Agarwal

As I grew up, I was born and brought up with a view of, if you can get an engineering degree, getting…

— Ritesh Agarwal

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…

— Ritesh Agarwal

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

— Ritesh Agarwal

Small hotels are going to be in vogue. In my view, small is going to be the new big, wherein people will…

— Ritesh Agarwal

COVID-19 is unlike any other challenge the world has faced, affecting people from every socio-economic background and causing a disruption in operations…

— Ritesh Agarwal

As an entrepreneur and on behalf of the company's management, I am thankful to have been given the opportunity to rededicate ourselves…

— Ritesh Agarwal

I had three other siblings, and I was the youngest of the lot.

— Ritesh Agarwal

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

— Ritesh Agarwal

Nobody or no company in this world can say they have got everything right and it has been a perfect journey.

— Ritesh Agarwal

We have, at various levels, invented how hospitality experiences would look like. At lot of levels, we have transformed how the hospitality…

— Ritesh Agarwal

The scale of impact that people aspire to create, based out of the Bay Area, is truly incredible.

— Ritesh Agarwal

My mom is surely worried that the fact that I don't have a college degree will impact my chances of finding a…

— Ritesh Agarwal

Abhinav Sihna is my partner and the COO of Oyo, and is also the head of the United States division. He spends…

— Ritesh Agarwal

On the customer side, we are continuously making enhancements to our app and activating new partnerships to make their travel experience seamless…

— Ritesh Agarwal

Capital is always available for good companies, but the only question is value at which you raise capital. In bad times, you…

— Ritesh Agarwal

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

— Ritesh Agarwal

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

— Ritesh Agarwal