Ritesh Agarwal – Founder and CEO of OYO Rooms | Inspiring Success Story

Inspiring Success Story of OYO Rooms Ritesh Agarwal

Ritesh Agarwal was born to a business family on16 November 1993 in Bissam Cuttack, in Odisha state, India and brought up in Titilagarh. Ritesh Agarwal is the CEO and founder of OYO Rooms. Ritesh attended the Sacred Heart School in Raygada, Orissa.

Ritesh completed his school from St. Johns Senior Secondary School. He moved to Delhi for college in 2011 and with strong intentions of starting up something of his own. He dropped out of college to pursue his dream of becoming an entrepreneur.

Agarwal joined the University of London’s course at Indian Business School. At the age of 13, Agarwal started selling SIM cards. Ritesh was the winners of the Thiel Fellowship program 2013, a 2-year program initiated by Peter Theil, PayPal Founder and an early investor in Facebook.