The genius of RiteshAgarwal is the reason why thousands of Indians now have access to affordable stays. RiteshAgarwal, the founder of OYO Rooms, came up with the idea of a budget hotel chain with a bed and breakfast feature when he was just 18. He soon dropped out of college to carry this idea forward. He founded the start-up Oravel Stays Pvt. Ltd. which soon became OYO Rooms, a national sensation. What started as an initiative with only 11 rooms in a Gurgaon Hotel in 2013, now has over 65000 rooms across 170 Indian cities spanning over 5500 properties. Ritesh’s journey to success is one of the most influential entrepreneurial journeys in India. Being an ardent traveler himself, he understood the need for budget accommodation for Indians with standard amenities. Ritesh’s story is a living proof of how a teenage mind can change the face of the Indian hospitality industry with a moving concept.

Vishal Jain is one of the most successful digital marketing experts in the country. While the youth of his age were busy getting a college degree and placed in a company with a fixed pay package, Vishal dreamed to make it big. It was this very dream that drove Vishal to drop out of college and venture into the digital world to find his calling of becoming a social media marketer. What makes Vishal’s success story more influential is its reliability. Vishal felt stuck to the confines of his hometown and had dreams to explore more and take risks in his life out of the hunger to learn more. Thus, he was never a fan of being an employee of a company as that would give him very little scope of exercising his creative prowess. So instead, he founded his own company called Sunshy Group of Companies, after realizing the potential of driving businesses through social media. Sign up for Newsletters Check out our popular newsletters and subscribe Vishal is also a founder of another establishment called ‘Journey to a Million Dollars’. This is an international endeavor that coaches young and aspiring entrepreneurs to make their breakthrough in the digital space by starting their own digital agency.

These teenage siblings have been in the news for the last few years for their innovation skills. At 18 and 16, they are the youngest Mobile Application developers in the country and are in the contention to become the best entrepreneurs in the upcoming year. The brothers are the founders of the start-up company ‘Go Dimensions’ which develops mobile applications for both the Android and the iOS platforms. The boys share a common motivation of helping out people with simple technological solutions that can be accessed readily. Recently, they developed an application called ‘GoDonate’ that aids in the donation of leftover food to the needy people which would have otherwise ended in the trash. Social contribution is a big driving factor behind their own projects which are funded by their own father. On being asked about how they could do so much at such a young age, they accredited their prowess to books and finding solutions to problems given to them. Sanjay and ShravanKumaran wish to see their apps being used by people throughout the world. They have started their journey towards achieving their goals as they have already designed over out 11 apps that have a record 60,000 downloads across 60 countries of the world. They were handsomely facilitated for their achievements in 2017 when Forbes included them in the list of ‘Forbes 30 Under 30’.