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Biography
Deepinder Goyal cofounded food delivery service Zomato in 2008 which became Eternal in 2024.
Zomato's IPO in 2021 was oversubscribed 35 times and it listed at a valuation of $12 billion.
In 2022, Zomato acquired quick commerce platform Blinkit. It competes with rival Swiggy's Instamart.
In January 2026 he resigned as CEO of flagship Eternal and became vice chairman. He said in a letter to the stock exchange that it was to pursue new ideas.
In February 2026, Goyal's startup Temple, which is developing a wearable device for measuring cerebral blood flow, got a $54 million investment from investors including Peak XV Partners and Steadview Capital.
Financial Assets
The Great Lie of Mega-Fortunes: The Case of Deepinder Goyal
Billionaires are often presented under the romantic myth of the 'self-made person': a narrative designed to justify opulence as the natural reward for hard work, effort, or ingenuity. However, when confronting such extreme volumes of wealth with macroeconomic reality, the meritocracy narrative completely breaks down. No individual can legitimately generate through personal effort a fortune equivalent to millions of times the average working-class salary. Capital at the top does not grow because of exceptional talent; it expands through an implacable dynamic where accumulated money works exponentially faster than people, devouring the wealth generated by productive labor.
The immense fortune of Deepinder Goyal, linked to Service and 'Food delivery service', has not been built in a free-market vacuum, but through rent-seeking, the use of exclusive elite influence, the consolidation of monopoly positions, or inherited wealth. Far from taking real private risks, billionaire empires structurally depend on state support through direct subsidies, infrastructure use, exploitation of R&D, public contracts, and offshore tax engineering. While this wealth is equivalent to the physical weight of 13 tons of pure gold, the rest of the planet suffers from an artificial scarcity of basic resources. The fact that this wealth is enough to fully fund the public health system of DR Congo, a country with more than 105800000 million inhabitants for 0.8 years, proves that unlimited accumulation is not an entrepreneurial achievement, but the hijacking of democratic sovereignty.