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The Leadership Qualities of the man behind Zomato

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  Leadership Qualities of Deepinder Goyal that helped him to create a food-tech unicorn      Deepinder Goyal is a well-known name in the Indian startup ecosystem. He with his colleague Pankaj Chaddah founded the Zomato, a well known food-tech unicorn. He graduated from IIT Delhi and then worked as a Senior Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.    Photo Credit:  IIT Delhi Alumni        So, while working at Bain & Company, they came up with the idea for Zomato (then Foodiebay). They had noted that during the lunch hour, a large number of individuals would practically queue up to look at menus and place orders. Obviously, this used to consume a significant amount of everyone's daily time. They started a website for food ordering for the employees of the Bain using the company intranet. To their surprise, the website was a hit and received heavy traffic. Deepinder saw an opportunity that could revolutionize the food tech indus...