Siddharth Gupta

Co-founder & CEO, Treebo Hospitality Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Gupta co-founded Treebo Hotels in 2015 alongside Rahul Chaudhary and Kadam Jeet Jain, building it into a major Indian tech-enabled budget hotel chain. Before launching Treebo, he worked as a Vice President at Myntra and served as a Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.

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Opinion

Siddharth Gupta: Civic sense, not infrastructure, limits Indian tourism

“I think the contrast lies not in the travel infrastructure and travel services that exist or not, I think it is a lot more about just who we are as people. It is about our civic sense.”

Siddharth Gupta Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 1:44:41 Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?

Opinion

Gupta: India needs stricter enforcement to develop public civic sense

“I do feel that we as a population need to be dealt with most strictly for us to, you know, develop the civic sense, which would otherwise be common”

Siddharth Gupta Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 1:45:42 Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?

Insight

Siddharth Gupta: Indian budget hotel developers routinely cut corners on life safety

“And they just tend to see the very low probability of that event and therefore tend to kind of ignore cut corners. You know, obviously all of these are measures which are under the hood, which a customer wouldn't immediately notice the absence of unless, unles…”

Siddharth Gupta Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 2:17:47 Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?

Opinion

Siddharth Gupta: Hotel guests prefer removing friction over preserving human touch

“I would certainly bet in favor of eliminating friction and not leaning on the human touch to keep it. I don't think any customer would welcome that.”

Siddharth Gupta Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 59:36 Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?

Insight

Gupta: Jugaad is both India's biggest strength and biggest weakness

“I think our jugaad is our biggest strength and our biggest weakness, because the same jugaad translates into a lot of this unpredictability for someone who's not familiar with that jugaad, right?”

Siddharth Gupta Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 1:45:06 Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?

Opinion

Gupta: Light-touch franchising does not work in hospitality

“I agree, light touch franchising doesn't work.”

Siddharth Gupta Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 2:36:18 Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?

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Siddharth Gupta: Autonomous hotel delivery robots will eventually be fully rolled out

“There is this visual of course, a robot delivering stuff in a hotel and moving around a hotel, which no doubt has Caught everyone's, you know, fancy over the last many years, and it is still yet to be fully rolled out, and I'm sure it will happen.”

Siddharth Gupta Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 56:52 Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?

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Gupta: Treebo audits hotels weekly, unlike upscale franchisors auditing biannually

“And what they do, for example, is that their people would audit the hotel twice a year. Our teams audit the hotel every week.”

Siddharth Gupta Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 2:35:16 Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App \| MakeMyTrip x Taj \| WTF is Travel?	Sep 9, 2026	12m

Siddharth Gupta

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