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Ritesh Agarwal Of Oyo Is Giving Budget Travellers A Variety Of Options Across The Country.

- Paramita Chatterjee

Entrepreneurship can’t be taught in college. Not at least to Ritesh Agarwal. For this 23-year-old founder of OYO, India’s largest branded network of budget hotels, it all comes from within. One would have read the signs when, at 13, this boy from small-town Odisha began to make money by selling SIM cards. Four years later, he dropped out of college to take the entrepreneurial plunge. “I always wanted to be an entrepreneur,” recalls Agarwal.