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Agarwal: OYO is now comfortable growing at 30%
“I think now we've become very comfortable being a 30% growth company. We are happy about it.”
Ritesh Agarwal worked barefoot in the office until recent years
“I used to at work take off my shoes and go inside for the longest time. And I, at some point of time I changed it, I think three, four years back, but for the longest time people used to sort of, there used to be a joke that, you know, he's at work by just not…”
Agarwal: I never sold secondary shares in OYO for personal liquidity
“I never did secondaries because the purpose and the enthusiasm was so exciting that nothing else mattered in terms of context.”
Agarwal: I have tried to model my business persona on Uday Kotak
“I think as a business person, somebody who at least over the last five years, and I said that I tried to transform myself, especially with the onset of COVID or around that period, four years maybe. I think that is Uday Kotak.”
Agarwal: Naropa Ritesh Fellowship gives equity-free grants to graduates
“And what I have done with them is started a Naropa Ritesh fellowship where we basically, these are mostly hilly terrain kids gotten out of college, want to do something new. So I give them equity free debt free grants because the Thiel fellowship changed my li…”