{"id":987076,"date":"2026-01-22T08:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987076"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:12:04","slug":"from-zomato-to-moonshots-what-is-deepinder-goyals-next-big-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/from-zomato-to-moonshots-what-is-deepinder-goyals-next-big-pivot\/","title":{"rendered":"From Zomato to Moonshots: What is Deepinder Goyal\u2019s next big pivot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal on Wednesday announced on X that he will step away as group chief executive officer of Eternal, the parent of Zomato and Blinkit, and, subject to shareholder approval, move into a vice-chairman role, as Blinkit CEO Albinder Singh Dhindsa takes over as the new group CEO. <\/p>\n<p>In his letter, Goyal said he has increasingly been drawn to \u201chigher-risk exploration and experimentation\u201d that sits outside Eternal\u2019s strategic scope, adding that the legal and governance demands of running a listed company in India require \u201csingular focus\u201d. While he did not name specific projects, his recent public activity points to a cluster of ambitious, personally funded ventures spanning healthtech and aviation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal on Wednesday announced on X that he will step away as group chief executive officer of Eternal, the parent of Zomato and Blinkit, and, subject to shareholder approval, move into a vice-chairman role, as Blinkit CEO Albinder Singh Dhindsa takes over as the new group CEO. In his letter, Goyal said he has increasingly been drawn to \u201chigher-risk exploration and experimentation\u201d that sits outside Eternal\u2019s strategic scope, adding that the legal and governance demands of running a listed company in India require \u201csingular focus\u201d. While he did not name specific projects, his recent public activity points [&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-987076","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\/987076","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=987076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}