Blitzscaling Hotels in China – with OYO JiuDian CTO Zou Jia

The Harbinger - China Tech & VC Podcast

Zou Jia is CTO of OYO JiuDian (OYO China), a Chinese hotel chain operator that since November 2017 has scaled to over 500,000 rooms on its platform by February 2019 and raised over $800 million from Softbank’s Vision Fund. OYO JiuDian partners with fragmented hotel owners in China by aggregating them onto its platform through leases or franchises and through renovations, standardizes the user experience. Jia shares insights on why he moved back to China from SF, OYO JiuDian’s consumer product philosophy, how they manage supply, the fragmented Chinese hotel marketplace, and how he’s applied blitzscaling learnings from Uber China and Mobike to OYO JiuDian and more. Link to write-up: https://www.theharbingerchina.com/blog/blitzscaling-hotels-in-china-with-oyo-jiudian-cto-zou-jia?categoryId=23497