Reinventing Student Living - OxfordCaps CEO Annu Talreja & COO Priyanka Gera on building India’s largest student accommodation business
- Author
- Neil Patel
- Published
- Tue 03 Dec 2019
- Episode Link
- http://www.indianstartupshow.com
Student living 2.0! Today I speak with Annu Talreja and Priyanka Gera they have co-founded OxfordCaps. OxfordCaps is Asia's first branded and tech-enabled student housing company they started in Singapore and now growing rapidly in India so in this episode they talk about how they went from quitting their corporate jobs to raising $10 million dollars in funding. They talk about how they are enhancing the student experience, female entrepreneurship , the hardest part about doing business in India , they talk about pitching to investors and knowing each other since childhood. And finally some Steve jobs, Jack Ma chat.
In this conversation we also talk about:
- Going from 200 beds to 15000 beds
- Are they growing too fast?
- First impressions of each other
- How they divided the different roles & responsibilities at the start.
- Appreciating each other
- Getting customers
- Having supportive investors
- Lion mom culture & stress
- Technology
and much more!
links
https://oxfordcaps.com/
Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel
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