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Topic: Ritesh Agarwal

OYO founder Ritesh Agarwal’s father falls to death from Gurugram high-rise

ThePrint Team -
Agarwal, in a statement, said his ‘guiding light and strength’ had passed away.

‘Absolutely untrue’ – Oyo’s Ritesh Agarwarl denies bankruptcy claim after Rs 16 lakh claim

Saritha Rai -
Oyo, one of the larger startups in the SoftBank Group’s portfolio, was struggling to restructure and whittle down loss-making operations even before the pandemic obliterated travel.

Ritesh Agarwal’s Oyo is facing major problems due to Masayoshi Son’s dramatic overreach

Pavel Alpeyev -
With its chaotic rush to expand in Japan, Oyo infuriated potential partners, alienated workers and jeopardised its reputation with local customers.

OYO was the big disruptor in India’s hotel industry, forcing even Tata to take note

Chitra Narayanan -
OYO founder Ritesh Agarwal was just 18 when he came up with the idea. Within just a few years, OYO surpassed the valuation of India’s oldest hotel company.

Oyo raises $1.5 billion at $10 billion valuation from founder Ritesh Agarwal, SoftBank

Saritha Rai -
Oyo founder 25-year-old Ritesh Agarwal will spend $700 million to buy new shares as a part of a $2 billion plan to triple his ownership stake.

Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal to invest $2 billion to increase stake in company

Saritha Rai -
The 25-year-old founder will buy shares from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia India, which will remain backers.

Ritesh Agarwal’s Oyo to invest $300 million to expand in US

Patrick Clark -
Ritesh Agarwal’s Oyo is adding hotels at the pace of one a day in the US, and aims to expand the offerings at five times that rate by the end of 2019.

OYO’s big expansion plans can put the entire business at risk

Tim Culpan -
There are enough anecdotes to suggest OYO’s management may be struggling to keep order among franchisees while maintaining focus on adding more.

24-year-old founder of Oyo Hotels raises $1 billion to expand overseas business

Saritha Rai -
Oyo has expanded beyond India into China, Malaysia, Nepal and Britain in the last 2 years.

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Opinion

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

Gitanjali Das -
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

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Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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