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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Same problem, new problems, because once a problem is solved, It becomes less intellectually stimulating, right?
A Yeah. No, which means new problems. I think, which is, which is the whole point I was going back to, right? That, um, for me, I last five years, I had to change myself fundamentally to try and make sure that every day I reviewed the same thing because businesses are inherently boring at some level, right? So you have to make sure that there's a 30% excitement, which is solving a new problem, uh, creating a product feature or one of those things. But 70% of it is just ops, right? Like doing the same job a little bit better every day. Um, and that did not come naturally to me. I think I had to train myself to become that person.
AI assessment note: “30% excitement, which is solving a new problem... But 70% of it is just ops”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.55
Q Okay. So you started, uh, with the Thiel Fellowship money with your friend Anuj, Oravel, later converted to OYO. When did the scaling happen?
A First year was very small. Like I think, in 2014, we grew from two hotels to maybe 10, 15 hotels. Still a lot, but not like massive. I think the real growth happened from 20 14 all the way to 20 17, which is where we went from a few hotels in one city to becoming one of the most prominent hotel brands in India in the economy and economy plus kind of segment. 20. 19 is when the scaling then happened globally. We went from being an India brand to becoming a globally prominent brand. So for example, just in Europe, we managed 150,000 holiday homes. So we have a fairly large business in Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, and few of these geographies. So I can relate with getting to the cities out of the flight to your hotel, do your job and come back. So you don't have.
AI assessment note: “I think the real growth happened from 20 14 all the way to 20 17”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q And I think, where does the rebelliousness come from? Was it rebelling against your parents in the early days? Or what they wanted you to do?
A No, I think, um, Quite the contrary. Actually, my parents, um, relatively, they felt that the elder three children had done so all right that they in some way, um, also motivated to become me to become slightly more rebellious. Like they were generally more comfortable with me doing things, which they were absolutely not comfortable with the elder three children, which is probably also the reason I never stole, right? Like where basically if, I asked for it. Often they would give me, which was not the case for my elder siblings. So, uh, and I think I'm truly thankful to that extent. Like I feel like if I was probably just born as a third child, I'd not be who I am. I'd be who I am only because I'm the youngest of the lot.
AI assessment note: “Quite the contrary. Actually, my parents... also motivated to become me to become slightly more rebellious.”
Partly raw tape
D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.55
Q How does that work just for people who are watching and interested? Not just Thiel Fellowship, but anything similar that they'd like to apply for. How does one find out where these scholarships are and apply for them?
A Look, I found it through serendipity, but I will give a few examples that I'm aware of and some of the things that I'm also doing as an outcome. So Thiel fellowship is one, which is a program started by Peter Thiel, where he gives a 100,000 dollars to 20 people earlier. It used to be age limitation under the age of 20. Acceptance rates are lower than Ivy leagues, but there's one condition. You have to stop out of college. Right. If you're in college, if you're in college, I was not in college. So it was easier. And the thesis behind it, the contracts first line says, we never let university interfere with education. So education is everywhere, including the WTF podcast. Um, but you don't have to go to university for it, but university is one of the sources of it. You can also pursue education there. So, um, I was a Thiel fellow, but there are other Thiel fellows like the founder of Ethereum is a Thiel fellow, which is a cryptocurrency. Founder of Figma. Figma is a design tool, very popular over the years. So a bunch of these people who are exceptionally successful came to the fellowship and everybody has very similar backgrounds, right? Young people, they were rebel without a cause, wanted to make a positive difference. But coming back, The fellowship is one in India. There's something called a young India foundation, uh, young India fellowship, very popular. Why I fellowship, …
AI assessment note: “I found it through serendipity, but I will give a few examples”
Partly raw tape
D 3 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 2 2.85
Q What is your relationship with Masayoshi's son? How did it get inculcated? Has it soured?
A Look, I think Uh, you asked who's, uh, I, uh, you know, I often call him Sonsan given, uh, in Japan, you typically add a son at the end, um, out of respect. So I think Sonsan, um, is first generation entrepreneur. Um, uh, invested in Alibaba quite early, built his own telecom business, which is now probably the most profitable business in Japan and one of the most profitable telecom business in the world, uh, in terms of construct. Um, and then invested in Alibaba, which did very well, and then set up multiple software and vision funds and ARM and few others. I think, so that's the context behind who he is. I think, um, I would basically Correlated as SoftBank's relationship. And within that, of course, talk about Sunsan. I think I got introduced to SoftBank first time in 2015 or 20 16. When we were in that growth phase, we were in three cities, then they're starting to take off. So, uh, I think Nikesh introduced us and Nikesh did the work. Uh, he's now the CEO of Polo Alto Networks. The deal was more or less agreed between Nikesh and the broader soft bank team. There was a broader soft bank and soft bank team. Uh, at that time they used to invest in the balance sheet. So that's how we, uh, got introduced to each other in the first place. So before the final investment decision is made is you have to go and present to Sonsan and he approves finally. So I went to Japan. I was ag…
AI assessment note: “I think I got introduced to SoftBank first time in 2015 or 20 16.”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 2 · P 2 · Cm 2 2.60
Q Would you say clarity of thought important for an entrepreneur?
A I think like I call myself in a company chief clarity officer. I think fundamentally one of the biggest challenges, I think that's probably the similar word of rigid that you were saying. I think having a clear answer versus saying that, um, I don't know, like, I don't know how it's going to come and let's derive it out of 20 other things and, or whatever people are saying, let's do it. I think that fundamentally is different. I would say this. Proof for any leaders. You can be an entrepreneur. I think he had that to a certain, he had that and even she to some extent, right? Like she said, this is the kind of product I want to build.
AI assessment note: “I call myself in a company chief clarity officer.”
