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RITESH AGARWAL, 27

The founder-CEO of OYO Rooms, evaluated at $10 billion, has created a network spanning 80 countries, 43,000 hotels and 150,000 vacation homes

On a chilly winter evening in 2012, Ritesh Agarwal sat at the local market in the middle-class neighbourhood of Delhi’s Masjid Moth—pockets empty and weighing his options. The 19-year-old

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