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Umang Bedi MD - India & South Asia Facebook

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Umang Bedi’s leadership journey began early and, by age 29, he was 
heading a software company. He joined the Young Presidents’ Organization
 Bangalore Chapter in 2013 and was recognized as an “Under 40: India’s 
Hottest Business Leaders” by “The Economic Times” in 2014. Bedi will 
lead in building and maintaining strategic relationships with top 
clients and regional agencies in the country.</div>
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Bedi believes that 
the business world has a way of crowding out our personal lives. We lose
 sight of important aspects of what makes us human: integrity, the 
ability to form personal relationships, experiencing happiness and 
satisfaction in our careers.</div>
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Umang has close to two decades of 
leadership experience covering sales, marketing and partnerships where 
he successfully built teams and grew businesses for multinational 
companies. At Adobe, Bedi was responsible for growing their business in 
India and helping India grow to amongst the leading markets for Adobe. 
Regular featured speaker at important conferences, including those at 
IIT and IIM. Bedi has close to two decades of leadership experience 
covering sales, marketing and partnerships with multinational companies.</div>
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The
 best and most successful leaders are those who genuinely understand the
 power of their human capital and invest in identifying, hiring, 
grooming and retaining talent .Steve Jobs with his amazing talent and 
resilience has always been an inspirational role model. His ability to 
fail and recover from it with greater successes never ceases to amaze 
me. He introduced his customers to experiences that were outside their 
realm of imagination and he did it using extremely sophisticated 
technology in deceptively simple packaging with mass appeal. There are 
so many aspects of his personality, drive and achievements that I 
continue to draw inspiration from. His legacy will continue to impact 
and inspire us for years to come.</div>
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<strong>Education</strong></div>
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Umang
 graduated from the University of Pune with a Bachelor of Engineering in
 Electronics in 1999 and he has done general management program from 
Harvard Business School.</div>
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<strong>This is how his career started and rises to leadership roles</strong></div>
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His
 career started when he was in Grade 5, as a summer intern wherein he 
was a sales representative for AskMe Services. He credits his early 
start with strong work ethic today along with a genuine enjoyment and 
anticipation of the next business challenge.</div>
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Prior to Adobe, Umang
 worked for Intuit Inc. as the Managing Director – India and Emerging 
Markets, where he was responsible for leading the Global Business 
Division’s strategic expansion into emerging markets. Before Intuit, 
Umang was the Business Head of the Banking, Financial Services and IT 
verticals at Symantec India. In this role, he helped grow the business 
by over triple digits, year-on year. Umang has also held leadership 
roles at other organizations like Sun Microsystems and Wipro.</div>
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Umang
 was the Business Head of the Banking and Financial Services segment at 
Symantec India. In this role, he helped grow the FSI business by over 
triple digits, year on year, by leveraging strategic enterprise level 
agreements with key financial institutions. In recognition of his 
outstanding contributions to the company, prior to Symantec, Umang was 
with Sun Microsystems as the Country Solution Engagement Manager 
specializing in Telecom. During this period he was involved with the 
design and delivery of large telecom projects across Data Service 
Delivery Platforms, IPTV, OSS/BSS, Portal, Messaging and Identity 
Management. Umang has also worked with Wipro and Satyam Computer 
Services in the areas of Enterprise Software development and consulting 
in India and in the USA.</div>
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<strong>Adobe Story</strong></div>
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As 
managing director for Adobe, South Asia, Umang Bedi is responsible for 
strategy and business operations across the region spanning sales, 
marketing, strategic partnerships and services. He also is part of the 
leadership team in charge of growing Adobe’s Digital Marketing business 
across the globe. At Abode Bedi focused on government and education. In 
government Bedi sees three areas where Adobe can be an important player.
 These include; government to citizen engagement, two citizen portal’s 
and third is empowering education.</div>
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Bedi pushed Adobe’s cloud 
services in India by bringing the cost of its software including Adobe 
Photoshop to 500 per month under a pay-as-you-use model, instead of over
 76,000 that it used to charge for a license, in 2011.</div>
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Umang has 
extensive experience in the IT Industry across diverse areas such as 
Sales, Consulting, Professional Services, Pre-Sales and Software 
Development. In addition, he is a member of the working group on 
"Network and Information Security Standards for e-Governance in India" 
under the Government of India's "National e-Governance Program (NeGP).</div>
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<strong>His journey with Facebook</strong></div>
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Mr.
 Umang Bedi has been Managing Director of India at Facebook, Inc. since 
July 2016.Before that he was the Managing Director of the South Asia 
region for Adobe. In this role, he is responsible for Adobe’s business 
operations that include growing the sales and marketing functions, 
driving strategic partnerships and alliances and driving cloud services 
opportunities within the enterprise, government, education and SMB 
sector in the South Asia region. In addition, Umang also leads 
partnerships globally with the Indian offshore system integrators, which
 are aimed at growing Adobe’s Digital Marketing business across the 
globe. Umang has a strong understanding of enterprises and their needs 
in an evolving creative and digital economy. He is driving the adoption 
and growth of Adobe Creative, Marketing and Document Clouds and helping 
customers transform their businesses in this digital, multiscreen and 
multichannel world by enabling them to make, manage, measure and 
monetize their digital content.</div>
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Bedi is also extremely well 
connected in the advertising and marketing world. His relationships with
 advertising agencies can help Facebook become a prominent advertising 
medium in the country, which in turn can significantly boost its India 
revenues. The second key agenda for him will be to rebuild Facebook’s 
brand image in the country. Facebook received a lot of negative 
publicity in recent days over its Free Basics offering wherein it 
partnered with Reliance Communications to offer data packs with free 
access to limited number of websites. Facebook faced the ire of the 
netizens and was forced to withdraw the offer after the regulator 
stepped in. Facebook has nearly 150 million users in India, and the only
 way to expand that base is by pushing into the rural market.</div>
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One 
step could be to bring Facebook payments to India and allow Facebook to 
become a large payments platform in the country, making it simpler for 
people in villages to get into the banking system.</div>
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<strong>Family</strong></div>
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Umang
 is based in Bangalore and while not at work he enjoys golf, 
photography, travel and exploration of new destinations with his wife 
and daughter.</div>
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<strong>Awards Received</strong></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">The  recipient of the prestigious ‘40 Under Forty: India’s Hottest Business Leaders  Award 2014’<br />
            given by The Economic Times and Spencer Stuart in 2014.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Umang  was awarded the "CEO Victory Award" and the "Chairman's Circle  Award".</td></tr>
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<strong>Affiliations</strong></div>
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<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">'Umang  is a member of the Government of India’s National e-Governance Program (NeGP).</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Charter  Member of TiE and a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) in India.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Umang
  is also a member of NASSCOM, Indo American Chamber of Commerce (IACC),
 IMA,  Direct Marketing Association of India (DMAi), National 
Entrepreneurship.  Network (NEN) and Gerson Lehrman Groupʼs Technology 
Council.</td></tr>
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<strong>Other Affiliations</strong></div>
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<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">'Adobe Systems Incorporated</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Harvard Business School</td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“Experience  is the new brand and customer journey is the new product.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“Manage  the present, create the future and selectively destroy the past.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“I believe  Facebook India can deliver effective outcomes for its customers.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />"It's a promising opportunity to participate in India's digital  growth, and I can't think of a better place to be at."<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“When
 I took over the role in 2011, India was just a research &  
development hub for Adobe. In terms of revenue generation it was 
negligible.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“India
 is a very significant site for us other than R&D. We were the  
first country in the world to shut down our perpetual licensing business
 and  move the model to the cloud. So Creative Cloud was launched in the
 US, but we  did the move first in India in November of 2013 and the 
company finally did so  globally in June 2014.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“The
 most mature market in our region is China, which spends $16 billion  on
 search, social and display/advertisement. Second market is Australia 
which  spends $8.5 billion. India is a fraction of that business but it 
is the second  largest in APAC in digital marketing for Adobe. That’s 
because of the adoption  of mobile and advertisement.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
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சாஹில் பரூவா இ-காமர்ஸ் லாஜிஸ்டிக் சி.இ.ஓ

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     <strong>சாஹில் பரூவா, வயது 32</strong> <br />
 <b>யார் இவர்:</b><br />
 இ-காமர்ஸ் லாஜிஸ்டிக் நிறுவனமான டெல்லிவெரி நிறுவனத்தின் இணை நிறுவனர் மற்றும் சி.இ.ஓ<br />
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 <b>படிப்பு:</b><br />
 பொருளாதாரத்தில் பட்டமேற்படிப்பு, பெங்களூர் ஐஐடி<br />
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 <b>இவரது விருப்பம்:</b><br />
 சமையல் மற்றும் காமிக்ஸ் புத்தகங்கள் படிப்பதில் விருப்பம்<br />
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 <b>சிறப்பு அம்சங்கள்:</b><br />
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இந்தியாவில் சிறப்பாக இயங்கி வரும் இ-காமர்ஸ் நிறுவனங்களில் ஒன்று இவரது டெல்லிவெரி நிறுவனம். </div>
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                 கடந்த 2011ஆம் ஆண்டு மோஹித் டண்டன், சுராஜ் சாஹாரன், 
மற்றும் புவனேஷ் மங்கலானி ஆகிய மூன்று நண்பர்களுடன் இணைந்து டெல்லிவெரி 
நிறுவனத்தைத் தொடங்கினார். அதன் பின்னர் ஐந்தாவது இணை நிறுவனராகக் கபில் 
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நிறுவனத்தில் பணிபுரிந்தார். இந்தியாவின் பெரிய ரெஸ்டாரெண்ட்களுக்கு உணவு 
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Ritesh Agarwal Founder & CEO OYO Rooms

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Much like what the acronym ‘OYO’ stands for “On-Your-Own,”
 the story (so far) of the founder and chief executive officer of OYO 
Rooms (referred simply as OYO), Ritesh Agarwal has pretty much the same 
under-current. He has been on his own (so to say) ever since he was 
still a child of 8 when (it is reported) he got introduced himself to 
computer programming to becoming the youngest CEO of a company at 16 
(some dispute the claim) of a company called Worth Growth Enterprises, 
to writing a book when he was just into his teens, to giving a slip to 
education to pursue what he liked such as founding a company that was 
in-line with what he thought, to creating an all-new platform –unlike 
the other start-ups of the country which are the so-called 
“Indian-versions” – to becoming the first Asian to get a the much 
coveted “20 under 20 Thiel Fellowship”. Yes, true to the brand acronym –
 he has been on-his-own and, in being so, he has created a niche for 
himself and the company he founded as a teenager and saw it grow from a 
1-room, 1-city status to today boasting of an inventory in the range of 
6,500 hotels (with about 65000 rooms) spread across more than 200 cities
 and, what’s more, he has the company on the path to spreading its wings
 far and across the globe beginning with operations in Malaysia.<br />
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<strong>Education and family</strong><br />
Son
 of a Marwari who ran a small business (his mother is a homemaker) in an
 Odisha town who later worked for a company, Ritesh was born in 
BissamCuttack on 16th November, 1993.He grew up in this not remote yet 
relatively lesser known town of the eastern state of the country.<br />
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He
 had his basic schooling from the Sacred Heart School while he completed
 his higher secondary (10+2) from St. John’s Senior Secondary School 
(English, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics).<br />
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<strong>Entrepreneurial Spirit…sprouts</strong><br />
It
 cannot be ascertained as to when exactly the businessman took shape in 
the young mind but that he was a coder and participated in events such 
as the one conducted by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR – 
unconfirmed) we know. To satisfy his parents (wash away the school 
drop-out tag from their mind) he enrolled for the Indian School of 
Business & Finance (Delhi) – which was actually an international 
programme offered by the University of London.<br />
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But, as we now know
 it, he wasn’t into it – his was a wanderer who kept travelling to 
research deeper into his business ideas and participate in 
entrepreneurial events – which interested him much, despite not much 
pedigree into that area.<br />
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Consequently, he dropped out of that 
programme and continued with his quest for avenues to express the 
business ideas germinating in his mind.<br />
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Call it serendipity or 
experience or whatever but it was his theses travels that entailed 
staying in budget hotels or cheaper hotels to be precise that actually 
gave shape and form to the business idea that is now called as OYO 
rooms. He found that firstly there weren’t many options for travelers 
when it came to decent budget hotels. The problem was further compounded
 by the fact that whatever was on offer was so sub-standard and mediocre
 even that not many in the civil society would chose them for their stay
 during travel (unless forced to).<br />
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<strong>Sparked it all…</strong><br />
Thus,
 with this bad experience as the base to build on, he went about doing 
more research – being the son of a Marwari - known to be shrewd, astute,
 and a keen sense of business. He further found that the unbranded 
hotels – the segment the likes of him would be interested in staying in 
had about 1.8 million rooms in the country compared to just 112000 in 
the so called branded segment.<br />
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That means, there were hotels which
 people like him – short on budget – wanted. Only problem seemed like 
finding them was difficult. So, being the techno-biz guy he was, he 
started working on a platform which would aggregate all such unbranded 
and budget hotels and make them accessible for commoners like him.<br />
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<strong>Oravel Stays…precursor to OYO Rooms</strong><br />
He
 started off with a single hotel to see the efficacy of his idea in 
Gurgaon (now Gurugram). The hotel had 14 rooms of which Oravel took 11 
to try out the concept. He brought in an expert hand in advertising and 
worked tirelessly to proliferate the service further.<br />
<br />
He slowly 
built the team of developers and support executives and continued 
operations. He realized there were few things that still needed to be 
ironed out. Expansion – unless tested in deep waters, the quality of his
 concept would not sustain. That required funding – so he managed to 
bring a local venture partner and helped infuse a capital of around 
Rs.2.8 million.<br />
<br />
<strong>Theil Fellowship…and the take-off thereafter</strong><br />
While
 he was busy with formalizing and streamlining the business model along 
with struggling to keep afloat in the midst of some payment issues (for 
outside agencies whose services and platform were hired to further the 
concept) – everything looked difficult.<br />
<br />
But, being the man made of
 sterner stuff – despite his young age – he was able to sail the ship of
 Oravel through quite admirably (some critics deny him the credit). 
Along the way they rebranded the company to call it OYO Rooms – 
something akin to him intrinsically – Own-Your-Own.<br />
<br />
While they 
were doing all this, he came to know about the ’20 under 20 Thiel 
Fellowship’ offered to school/college drop-outs - a scholarship program 
run by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. After doing all the groundwork 
required – he applied for it.<br />
<br />
Luck favors the brave and Ritesh was
 brave enough to think that he was deserving of it, so it was no 
surprise for him when he was awarded the fellowship of Rs.3 million (To 
be paid at Rs.2.7 lacs a month for a year). That is when everyone else 
realized there is something really different, perhaps even special 
happening in the Indian travel / hospitality and start-up market.<br />
<br />
He
 was the first Asian to get that – no small feat. Especially for such a 
young bloke. With the much needed capital in hand, Ritesh and co. now 
set about putting into place the differentiator of OYO.<br />
<br />
Ritesh had
 by now come to realize that availability of budget and unbranded hotels
 was not the issue, which was the base for him to start a Airbnb kind of
 service in Oravel Stays. The real issue was quality and 
standardization. So, he and the team worked tirelessly to bring in 
sweeping changes to the unbranded hotel sector in the country.<br />
<br />
Today,
 thanks to Ritesh Agarwal and OYO, about 65000 rooms across 220 cities 
in the country follow 30-quality standards that a part of a huge 
160-item check-list. The company makes sure that all under the OYO brand
 strictly adhere to these standard by religiously enforcing them. They 
have a quality audit of each hotel under it – every 3 days.<br />
<br />
Soon 
funding from other venture capitalists flowed and today it clocks at 
$130 million – a giant, giant leap for something that had started with 
Rs.60,000 from the pocket of India’s youngest entrepreneur ever – who 
also wrote a best-selling (unconfirmed) book called “Engineering 
Colleges of India’ much before he even clicked in business 
(unconfirmed).<br />
<br />
Along the he has had friction with people – as it 
is with most start-ups. Allegations of foul-play, ethics being 
compromised etc. were thrown around – which seem part and parcel of the 
start-up culture (as vindicated by view of one of the early investor in 
the company). Despite all this, Ritesh Agarwal has been able to do what 
no other Indian start-up has been able to – find a place for its niche 
service. He didn’t cop[y the concept – his is the original one. And he 
proved it is workable and even profitable. On way to entering the 
Unicorn club of India; and it shall be, at the pace it has grown, sooner
 rather than later.<br />
<br />
Well done Ritesh. Keep going!!<br />
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<strong>Awards & Recognition</strong></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Forbes  “30 under 30” in the consumer technology sector</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Top 50 entrepreneursby TATA First Dot powered by NEN Awards, 2013</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">TiE-Lumis  Entrepreneurial Excellence Award, 2014</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Young  Entrepreneur Award, Business World</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Finalist  of Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards-India</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">NCSE  National Awardee</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2" height="35" valign="middle"><span style="color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; line-height: 30px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: left;">Quotes</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“Going
  to college opens doors for learning in a structured fashion. In my 
case, I was  sure of my career path since I was young – I only wanted to
 become an  entrepreneur.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />"One
  big learning from Thiel fellowship was think really big and create an 
impact,  without thinking if anybody has done it before"<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“No
  Indian traveler deserves to stay in those kinds of places, no matter 
what he  pays. It is this trust deficiency that OYO is trying to 
combat,” s<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“We  are not building an Indian alternative to what has been attempted in the  Silicon Valley or China.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“I  am yet to hear of an entrepreneur who can claim to have succeeded without  making mistakes.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“We
  are not in a hurry to expand our footprint. We will pursue growth 
outside India  in a measured and well thought-through manner.”.<strong>.</strong><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“We
  are offering 65,000 rooms through our partners and plan to grow deeper
 in all  key business and leisure cities, tripling our inventory by 
December 2016.”<strong>.</strong><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“We  have so much competition and, at the same time, no competition!”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“The  best thing that could have happened to me.” About the Thiel Fellowship.<strong>.</strong><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
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