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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where OYO comes up
For the CEOs of 2026, From One of India's Top Leaders | Roopa Kudva, Ex-CEO Crisil
- ▶ 0:33 Roopa Kudva I saw Ritesh of OYO speaking.
- ▶ 6:59 Roopa Kudva I was still at Crystal, and I walked into a, ah, to an event where I saw Ritesh of Oyo speaking, and, you know, it was almost like,
Lightspeed’s $500M Bet On India With 1/3rd In AI Companies | Dev Khare | Neon Show
- ▶ 0:06 Dev Khare So one of the early investments we did was the seed investment in OYO.
- ▶ 12:58 Dev Khare So one of the early investments we did was the seed investment in OYO.
- ▶ 48:27 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like OYO at that time, like, you know, an Indian company giving one billion dollar to a fund was phenomenal, right?
How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
- ▶ 1:01:38 Kirthiga Reddy Um, you know, Ritesh from OYO.
Former SOFTBANK CFO: My Honest Experience Working With Masayoshi Son | Alok Sama | The Neon Show
- ▶ 28:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia But at the same time, uh, Sonsan is, you know, as quoted in your book, giving as much money to Ritesh from Oyo that nobody stands in his way. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Because even at your role at SoftBank, you've seen Massa being passionate about Indian entrepreneur and backing them ferociously beat Ritesh from Oyo Bhavish from Ola, right?
Watch This BEFORE Buying Banking Stocks I Deepak Shenoy I Capitalmind I Neon Show
- ▶ 1:22 Siddhartha Ahluwalia What about, in your opinion, startups going IPO, OYO going IPO?
- ▶ 1:15:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And what about in your opinion, for example, uh, startups going IPO, some companies like OYO going IPO. 6 times in the scene
From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
- ▶ 43:09 Aprameya Radhakrishna Like Oyo is one example of. 4 times in the scene
How A 23 year Old Created A $8M Yearly Revenue Content Marketplace Business ft. Anirudh Singla
- ▶ 27:20 Anirudh Singla Alok who heads our translations business, was, uh, heading customer experience at OYO.
- ▶ 30:18 Anirudh Singla So if I wanted to understand what a great operating person looks like, I'd probably speak to Abhinav Sina, who's OYO's global CEO and understand what great looks like and then calibrate and think about,
100+ Investments, 8 Exits in 10 Years! Journey of Abhishek Rungta, Founder, Seeders VC & Indus Net
- ▶ 29:02 Abhishek Rungta So I think, uh, one was, I think, Oyo, uh, I think I met Ritesh in Delhi, uh, in a Thai conference, uh, we discussed and I could not, uh, you know, I could not make up my mind that, you know, uh, why would someone, uh, sleep in someone… 2 times in the scene
@firstcheque7252 CEO on Early Stage Investing and investments from founders ft. Kushal Bhagia
- ▶ 14:41 Kushal Bhagia It's a, um, you know, it's a, you know, OYO for Kirana stores, like, sort of model, sort of like, seven 11 for, for India.
Starting angel investing, understanding spaces & sourcing deals with Arun Venkatachalam
- ▶ 2:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Arun has also six successful exits to his name, which include Your Bus, acquired by NASPERS, Innovate Coworking, acquired by OyuRooms, CarmEasy, acquired in secondary sales.
Rahul Chowdhri, Stellaris Ventures on surge of Direct to Consumer brands in India
- ▶ 37:10 Rahul Chowdhri And at that time we were seeing, uh, people running extracurricular classes inside, uh, OYOs, for example.
- ▶ 41:34 Rahul Chowdhri And then in the larger side, you obviously have examples like Ola and Oyo and Zomato who have tried doing that sometimes successfully, sometimes not successfully.
Ankur Bansal, BlackSoil Capital on Venture Debt funding in the Indian Startup Ecosystem
- ▶ 1:32 Ankur Bansal So we, we have worked with as largest companies like Oyo Rooms to a lot of mid-market, uh, companies which have raised between like, you know, 15, twenty million dollars to thirty million dollars kind of ticket size likes of, uh, Zetworks,… 2 times in the scene
Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
- ▶ 23:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Find got exited to Reliance Jio, Innovate got exited to Oyo Rooms. 3 times in the scene
Ishaan Mittal on how Sequoia India helps founders build high growth companies
- ▶ 26:12 Ishaan Mittal Well, one way to think of it is, uh, if we were having this conversation exactly 10 years ago, in, um, January of, 20, 2020, 10, uh, Flipkart and Zomato would be extremely young companies, maybe two, three years old, and, uh, Ola and Oyo…
Episode 53 | Hemant Mohapatra, Partner, Lightspeed India Partners
- ▶ 20:37 unnamed speaker Um, we are obviously in OYO.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 7 | Rehan Yar Khan, Managing Partner, Orios Venture Partners
- ▶ 14:28 Rehan Yar Khan Um, so I think, I think, uh, OYO was a company I had met Ritesh, and I didn't end up investing.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- ▶ 26:59 unnamed speaker What they don't realize is whether it's them or whether it's somebody who's raised money or I'm sure at some point, uh, you know, Dipinder or, uh, Sugi or Oyor, everybody would have gone through this.
- ▶ 1:16:00 unnamed speaker So towards the conclusion of the podcast, what was the noise on those signals, which you missed investing in OYO, Swiggy, 2 times in the scene
From One lab to Rs. 9200 Crore Empire : Ameera Shah, MD Metropolis Health Care
- ▶ 27:10 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Asset light model, which currently, you know, OYO and likes other companies have pioneered in India, but you started back in 2000, this thinking, what was the reason behind this thinking?