{"id":987068,"date":"2026-01-22T08:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987068"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:09:51","slug":"deepinder-goyal-steps-down-as-eternal-ceo-hands-reins-to-blinkits-albinder-dhindsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/deepinder-goyal-steps-down-as-eternal-ceo-hands-reins-to-blinkits-albinder-dhindsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepinder Goyal steps down as Eternal CEO, hands reins to Blinkit\u2019s Albinder Dhindsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deepinder Goyal has resigned as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Eternal Limited, the parent company of Zomato and Blinkit, effective February 1, 2026, handing operational control to Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa. <\/p>\n<p>Goyal, who founded Zomato 18 years ago, will transition to Vice Chairman subject to shareholder approval for a five-year term, the company said in an exchange filing on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to shareholders, Goyal said he was drawn to \u201cnew ideas that involve significantly higher-risk exploration and experimentation\u201d that sit outside the company\u2019s strategic scope. \u201cThe expectations, legal and otherwise, of a public company CEO in India demand singular focus,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepinder Goyal has resigned as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Eternal Limited, the parent company of Zomato and Blinkit, effective February 1, 2026, handing operational control to Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa. Goyal, who founded Zomato 18 years ago, will transition to Vice Chairman subject to shareholder approval for a five-year term, the company said in an exchange filing on Tuesday. In a letter to shareholders, Goyal said he was drawn to \u201cnew ideas that involve significantly higher-risk exploration and experimentation\u201d that sit outside the company\u2019s strategic scope. \u201cThe expectations, legal and otherwise, of a public company CEO in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}