Ritesh Agarwal

FOUNDER OF OYO ROOMS

Ritesh Agarwal is the man who backs his own decision. He is the true motivation for the young entrepreneurs who are dreaming to be the next big thing. Right Now this man become the role modal for the young generation. I am really obliged to share the life story of this young man.

I must say this guy proves the old saying that “Hardwork can beat Talent”. He was a college dropout guy who want to sit in the engineering. But Now he become the big thing which everyone want to be.

Here is the inspiring success story of OYO Rooms Founder.

Inspiring Success Story of Ritesh Agarwal (Oyo Room Founder) – Dreams and dedication are essential combinations that can lend a hand to take you to the pinnacles of success. The testimony to the above statement is the hard work and dedication of Ritesh Agarwal, the young boy who is the founder and now the CEO of OYO Rooms. He is now an inspiration not only to the young entrepreneurs but also to the youth who wants to do something extraordinary in life.

We all are aware of the very famous OYO Rooms, which is a successful start-up. But do we know actually about the person behind this awesome idea? There is a teenager from Orrisa who thought of this idea and the success of this idea is nothing new.

Interesting facts about the man behind the OYO Rooms

Ritesh Aggarwal is as interesting as his idea. He was born in a humble family in Cuttack, Orrisa. His journey as an entrepreneur was not a very smooth one; he had to deal with failures and difficulties to be on the top. Below listed are some of the interesting facts that will keep you interested to the edge.

He loves to travel and while traveling he discovered that there is a problem in getting good rooms with good facilities at affordable rates. At just 17 years of age, he invented Travel travels, modeled after Airbnb, which later branched out to become OYO Rooms. Later on, he launched OYO to eradicate the problem of the availability of the budget rooms in Hotels.

Achievements of Ritesh Agarwal

Ritesh Agarwal has benefited the society in more than one ways. He has also managed to achieve what most of the people only think of. Below listed are some of the accomplishments of this teenager. He has been named among the top 50 entrepreneurs by the TATA first dot awards in 2013. Finalist of the global student Entrepreneurship Awards India. He has been named one of the 8 hottest teenage startup founders in the world by a BusinessInsider in the year 2013. He is the World’s youngest CEO at 17.

OYO HOTELS , commonly known as OYO, is an Indian hotel brand that owns and operates as well as aggregates standardised hotel rooms. It currently operates in more than 200 Indian towns, Malaysia and Nepal.

Ritesh Agarwal is the founder & CEO of OYO. It started with one city and one hotel in Gurgaon in January 2013. The company as of April 2017 has around 70,000 Rooms in 7,000 hotels across 200 towns of India.