OYO
also referred to as: oyo rooms
7 statements across 7 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Aug 16, 2019 by Karthik Reddy · said 41 times in 18 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Siddhartha Ahluwalia (17), Aprameya Radhakrishna (4), Roopa Kudva (2), Rahul Chowdhri (2), Dev Khare (2), Ankur Bansal (2), Anirudh Singla (2), Abhishek Rungta (2)
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2025 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2024 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2023 4 mentions in 1 episode
2022 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2020 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
- Rahul Chowdhri, Stellaris Ventures on surge of Direct to Consumer brands in India
- Ankur Bansal, BlackSoil Capital on Venture Debt funding in the Indian Startup Ecosystem
- Ishaan Mittal on how Sequoia India helps founders build high growth companies
- Episode 53 | Hemant Mohapatra, Partner, Lightspeed India Partners
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 7 | Rehan Yar Khan, Managing Partner, Orios Venture Partners
- From One lab to Rs. 9200 Crore Empire : Ameera Shah, MD Metropolis Health Care
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
Everything said about OYO, oldest first
Aug 16, 2019 negative
Reddy: Why Blume Ventures passed on investing in OYO's early round
“In the case of OYO, we had something remotely competing when Ritesh met us first as O'Revel even before the Thiel Fellowship. He was saying, I do like an Airbnb for India, right? And he said, yeah, but we have like a vacation rental place in our portfolio. How…”
Aug 17, 2019 negative
Sep 6, 2019 neutral
Sep 20, 2020
BlackSoil's average venture debt ticket size is 10 to 15 crore rupees
“So we do as small as one crore and we have gone up to like even 30 crores. And then like, for example, for your rooms, you end up to 40 crores also but that was like one off, but generally for us average ticket size would be 10 to 15 crores.”
Jan 17, 2022 neutral
Rungta passed on angel investing in OYO doubting its Airbnb-like model.
“So I think one was, I think, Oyo I think I met Ritesh in Delhi in a Thai conference we discussed and I could not you know, I could not make up my mind that, you know why would someone sleep in someone else's house? Because earlier at that time, it was a differ…”
Nov 29, 2024 positive
Masayoshi Son backed OYO's Ritesh Agarwal because he saw himself
“It was a case of Ritesh being someone who reminded Masa when Masa himself was young, right? And I want to back you with capital. I want you to achieve what you're what you're capable to realize your potential, to realize for the, for your company to realize it…”
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Khare: Marketplaces Must Fix Fragmented Supply, Not Just Aggregate Demand
“Which I think is a lesson that a bunch of founders and investors learned together here over the last 15 years, that you can't just aggregate at the high level and just provide access. Yeah, ok air tickets and railway tickets, fine, because those are pretty com…”