A teenager once pitched ₹30 lakh for a slice of his startup and mostly got no for an answer. That same idea now heads toward the public markets as a global hospitality business, built through coding experiments, budget stays, early failures, and a few investor regrets along the way. What started as a rough bet on fixing travel has turned into a system built on consistency. And as it moves toward listing, it feels less like a victory lap and more like a long “not convinced” finally arriving at its price.

A teenager once pitched ₹30 lakh for a slice of his startup and mostly got no for an answer. That same idea now heads toward the public markets as a global hospitality business,…

Oyo's parent company, PRISM, has filed for a ₹6,650 crore IPO, marking its third attempt to go public after previous delays and withdrawals. Following a period of restructuring…