Note to readers: How do corporate India’s leaders manage their businesses? Where do they draw inspiration from? What is their management style? Like A Boss is a new series of interviews aimed to offer readers lessons from corporate bosses on how they run their companies. At 27, Ritesh Agarwal happens to be one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the Indian startup ecosystem to have built a multi-billion dollar startup. He founded Oyo when he was just 19 and created ripples in the startup world after Japanese conglomerate Softbank invested in his company.In recent years, Oyo has undertaken a breakneck expansion beyond India to markets such as China, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States, making it one of the world’s biggest hospitality brands in terms of the number of rooms. But that has come at the cost of widening losses and questions over the quality of Oyo’s properties. That makes Agarwal a magnet for social media jibes.Close Nonetheless Agarwal is regarded as a role model by many youngsters. Few people hailing from a middle class family (from Orissa) have managed to build a billion-dollar business. In an exclusive interview with Moneycontrol, Agarwal talks about his management style, where he draws… Read full this story
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Like A Boss I Don’t like me? That's ok. We can still happily co-exist if there's respect: Oyo’s Ritesh Agarwal have 293 words, post on www.moneycontrol.com at November 24, 2020. This is cached page on Business Breaking News. If you want remove this page, please contact us.
