{"id":968004,"date":"2025-10-16T11:17:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968004"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:47:57","slug":"oyo-founder-ritesh-agarwal-i-am-inspired-by-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-when-he-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/16\/oyo-founder-ritesh-agarwal-i-am-inspired-by-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-when-he-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal: I am inspired by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos when he says &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal has now credited Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for helping him shape his approach and business strategy. Agarwal revealed the one quote by Bezos which inspired him, \u2018Hope is not a plan\u2019. In a recent interview post shared by Agarwal on his Instagram handle, he emphasised that structured planning and risk assessment play a key role over blind optimism. He mentioned that this mindset has guided him in Oyo\u2019s journey from a small startup to a global hospitality brand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInspired by Jeff Bezos, who says \u2018hope is not a plan.\u2019 Many people believe that if we keep working hard, things will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal has now credited Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for helping him shape his approach and business strategy. Agarwal revealed the one quote by Bezos which inspired him, \u2018Hope is not a plan\u2019. In a recent interview post shared by Agarwal on his Instagram handle, he emphasised that structured planning and risk assessment play a key role over blind optimism. He mentioned that this mindset has guided him in Oyo\u2019s journey from a small startup to a global hospitality brand. \u201cInspired by Jeff Bezos, who says \u2018hope is not a plan.\u2019 Many people believe that if we keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}