The speaker shares how HotelAgenta.com became one of India's first budget hotel websites and how that early move led to founding Internet Moguls. Being first in a new market meant capturing customers before competitors arrived.
During that time, the Internet was a new thing. We developed a website called HotelAgenta.com which became one of India's first budget hotel websites ever. Like, nobody was doing it. It was like crazy to even think of a website. But because nobody was doing it and everybody in the west understood how a website works, we started doing extremely well. So that started my journey into understanding Internet for hotels. And that's when TripAdvisor and Expedia and all these companies came to India and they said, you know, we love what you're doing and you're one of the people. First meet the first five people on Expedia. Like, there's nobody on Expedia India at that point. So we started speaking on stages and telling people how this whole Internet thing works. People said, can you do it for us? And that's when I started an agency called Internet moguls. 15 August 2009.