Reports suggested that SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son flew in via private jet to attend Agarwal’s wedding. As one of the winners of the Fellowship, he received a grant of $100,000 which was used to launch OYO in May 2013. He dropped out of college after two years and was accepted into the Thiel Fellowship program. Touching the feet of elders is seen as a mark of respect in India.īorn to a Marwari family in Odisha, Agarwal moved to Delhi in 2011 for college. One photograph also shows Agarwal and his wife, Geetansha Sood, bending down to touch Son’s feet. Dressed in a tuxedo, the 65-year-old posed next to the newlyweds. Masayoshi Son himself has been something of a mentor to Agarwal for almost a decade, even providing a personal guarantee to his $2 billion loan which allowed the 29-year-old to increase his stake in OYO in 2019.Ī post shared by Weddingz.in shared by the wedding planners show that Son was all smiles at the reception. Son’s SoftBank is the biggest investor in hospitality chain OYO, which Agarwal launched in 2013. But it was the presence of Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son that grabbed maximum eyeballs. The couple hosted a wedding reception at the five-star Taj Palace hotel in Delhi on March 7, which was attended by the who’s who of the startup ecosystem. Ritesh Agarwal, 29, married Geetansha Sood earlier this month. SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son on Tuesday attended the wedding reception of Ritesh Agarwal, where the young entrepreneur and his wife bent down to touch the Japanese billionaire’s feet and seek his blessings.
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