{"id":6523,"date":"2015-09-07T03:02:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6523"},"modified":"2015-09-07T10:51:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T16:51:41","slug":"the-21-year-old-building-indias-largest-hotel-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6523","title":{"rendered":"The 21-year-old building India&#8217;s largest hotel network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-34078529\">BBC<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The firm launched in June 2013 with just $900 (\u00a3586; \u20ac799) a month, working with one hotel in Gurgaon near Delhi.<br \/>\n&#8220;I used to be the manager, engineer, receptionist for this one hotel and also deliver stuff in hotel rooms,&#8221; says Mr Agarwal. &#8220;At night I would write codes to develop our app and improve our website. But alongside this I was also building strong teams because I knew I wanted to scale this up. &#8221;<br \/>\nBut the only way he could persuade investors that it was a worthwhile idea was to show them just how bad some budget hotels in India were.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: The firm launched in June 2013 with just $900 (\u00a3586; \u20ac799) a month, working with one hotel in Gurgaon near Delhi. &#8220;I used to be the manager, engineer, receptionist for this one hotel and also deliver stuff in hotel rooms,&#8221; says Mr Agarwal. &#8220;At night I would write codes to develop our app and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6525,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}