He Couldn’t Get a Job, so He Started Zomato

[@varun2440]

OMG this is so good. We definitely want part 2. This could be a gamechanger for this challenge. This is the best way to describe business case studies

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Please share it around Lucas! Currently this video is performing worse than the last 9 other videos that we've posted on this channel, but if people post this across platforms like WhatsApp, Reddit, Quora, etc., it might see a boost! -Caleb

[@StoaHQ]

Agreeing on this Lucas, even we at Stoa create a lot of content around Business case studies. The most common review so far has been that case studies become even more fun in a storytelling format.

[@bharath111able]

This was really nice Caleb, a change that I have truly enjoyed watching. Impressive story telling 🙌

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Thanks so much Bharath, you've been watching our videos so long that it means a lot to read this! Hope you're enjoying the way that BwM is evolving 🙂 -Caleb

[@karthikranga]

Woah! An untold story! Brilliant story telling. Keep up BWM team for the research, script, video editing and presenting it! We definitely need the Part 2!

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Thanks so much Karthik 😁 Part 2 is already in the editing stage, so should be getting posted in the next week or two! -Caleb

[@rajeshkanna9502]

This is an amazing video. My story is similiar to his. Except I went to NIT(dropped out) instead of IIT. I have also begun my own startup this year. Funny how entrepreneurs are made

[@rylaczero3740]

Keep pushing forward, man! Our wishes are with you!

[@bharath111able]

Look forward to your IPO 😉

[@dariustanz7603]

Name it so that u get traffic

[@goku2325]

Keep hustling brother, you got this 💪💪

[@StoaHQ]

This is great Rajesh, dropping out and starting a business with your own vision and for your own purpose requires immense courage. Thanks for inspiring many and best of luck for what lies ahead of you!

[@StoaHQ]

No matter how much criticism Zomato gets for being a loss-making company, it indeed was a game-changer for the Indian ecosystem. All it did was focus on one simple thing - 'Make users lives easier.' At this scale also, Zomato never fails to innovate and bring on new ideas to the table. It definitely is a food-tech giant in making...

[@adim3190]

WOW one hell of a story and pretty cool way to tell it. Waiting for part 2

[@iky__]

Can't wait for Part 2. This is was just amazing.

[@ivinitmittal]

Amazing Presentation!! 💯

[@rohitbuxani8391]

This channel is dangerously underrated

[@akshatbisht1330]

I am so happy Caleb that that you and your team are kindling the flames of entrepreneurship within Indians and for that you have my thanks and my respect.

[@amolnakashe441]

If storytelling is an art.. Then You have nailed this art form.. I was completely hooked to the story from start to end!

[@bekunal10]

This is so immersive storytelling. Kudos to the entire team. Video and script are bang on

[@faisal8maverick]

Way to go Caleb :) Loving the new type of content and editing.

[@shibilshibu]

your startup story telling is very good and detail, keep going bro...

[@ankurkumarsrivastava6958]

Please roll out part-2 soon..... couldn't wait for it!!!

[@amritapatjoshi6695]

Fascinating!!! Can't wait for part 2

[@kahlanray3401]

i dont know how tru or legit it is but deepender goyel worked at bain as a consultant for 3years after collage. Which is a pretty lucritative job as an undergrad iitd student.

[@AnkitG12]

Amazing research. Thank you so much.

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Glad you enjoyed it Ankit! -Caleb

[@radmod6908]

Extremely informative, yet still engrossing. Great video!

[@diveshkumarchordia1252]

amazing i didnt even realised it ended, waiting for part 2

[@riteshmukhopadhyay6922]

Heyyy team, Please dont keep us waiting for the next part 😥 The story is really intriguing 🤤🤤 Definitely we are enjoying your content :)

[@AdityaBhave.]

Loved the cliffhanger man..waiting for part 2..

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

It's here Aditya! 🙂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fX-Tc32opt-Ig8U -Caleb

[@AdityaBhave.]

@@backstagewithmillionaires you rock Caleb🤘

[@rylaczero3740]

Didnt knew there was so much struggle behind Deepinder

[@vipul7684]

Great video man, the storytelling was so good..

[@sujantkumarkv5498]

Awesome storytelling Caleb sir...And this series & episode format style is a great idea...

[@KK-xd8mi]

loved this and the falguni nayar vid! great job :)

[@adityapandey4415]

Loved it Waiting for part 2.

[@randibacha5777]

Such high quality video yet so underrated 😫

[@vasant2479]

Awesome video Nice editing....good storyline

[@savita6057]

I guess audio video synchronisation could have been better but knowledge that you are providing through this video is awesome

[@Pushed2InsanityYT]

Excellent video. Will do my part by sharing the video on my WhatsApp.

[@nithinpalusa3069]

Awesome well made video!!, wanted to tee see in person interview but this almost felt the same. Waiting for part 2 🤩

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Haha maybe someday we'll be able to sit down for an interview with Deepinder 🙂 let's see. And yes, Part 2 is already in the editing stage! -Caleb

[@StoaHQ]

Business case studies are something that people love. That’s exactly what we at Stoa try to do while creating our content around businesses and startups - Delivering insane amount of knowledge in the shortest possible timespan.

[@shreyas_sridhar]

Thank you for this video!!! when I startup, I'll remember what it takes to make a successful startup

[@newton343434]

I am so waiting for part 2!

[@911chatterbox]

Good one Caleb and Team. Keep Such contents coming 👍🏻

[@nikhilaggarwal7727]

oh my god i feel lucky that i have access to great people like you so much learnings and knowledge i get from you guys thanks a lot 😭😭

[@suryansh70]

great video ; this format of parts is good also you should also focus on think school like videos you are a good narrator

[@koustubhsahu1703]

I appreciate these kind of videos, thankyou

[@sai-codes]

Holy shit what a crazy story. I am sharing this with all my ambitious friends

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

So glad you found this video Sai 🙂 and that you enjoyed watching it. -Caleb

[@sai-codes]

Hope you guys grow like crazy in the coming years📈📈📈

[@krg8121]

oh, damn it, part 2, wtf, i want it now💥💥

[@shanti4969]

Really nice and exciting case study!

[@sudarshansharma3945]

Hey bring out the part 2 soon!!!! Thank you

[@gauravmaurya8696]

Hii Calab... Just an amazing story and amazing story telling. He probably is PANKAJ CHADDHA who was colleague of one of my teacher from IIT D

[@chaitanyavarma2097]

This is a great video!

[@ruhanhansuka5149]

When is the Part 2 Coming!! for me the most awaited Video YT !

[@ivinitmittal]

Dude built an internet company when there was no internet in India!! 🤯🤧

[@shivendusrivastava3608]

Dude what's ur point of view towards blockchain ??

[@rebel6809]

@@shivendusrivastava3608 nice

[@StoaHQ]

A very similar thing happened with Infosys back in the day. Infosys was an IT company for almost 2 years without having a single computer.

[@Reehan]

Loved it!...

[@bharathmohan5043]

Picture abhi baki hai 🤩

[@rebel6809]

One day i too will come in Backstage with Millionires,but at that time channel name will be backstage with billionires.

[@success6244]

Caleb, when are you going to upload part-2 of this video?

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Hi The Lazy Guy, Part 2 is being edited right now, but should be finished soon! We’re aiming to post it this week, latest next week. -Caleb

[@surya-sigireddy]

Hi guys if it is possible make an video on upcoming e commerce companies focusing on making street retail available for ordering online.. I asking not about blinkt or bigbasket i am asking startups focusing on street retail stores..

[@CuriousYash]

My Learning Keynote ( _you might have different learnings_ ) : + Not every successful unicorns's founder have good score in IIT 🔥or even IITian + It doesn't matter how's your story, or what you've done to get what you want, if you're passionate for what you want, you'll find it solution even in late🎉 + You might not know what your business gonna be in next 10 years, but you know what could ve the best act today🍉 + You might not achieve the scalability at the rate as you were expecting in the beginning ,so you need more brains to brainstorm on it🧠 And _also Thankyou for the great story_

[@Ssspbduck]

Is there a good platform in 🇮🇳 where a normal person can invest say 5000 ruppes via upi in a crowd funding of a startup for a very small stake in the startup?

[@triples5399]

I liked the video, hope it's not sponsored. If it's not sponsored then please continue this series, want to see a video of Nithin Kamath who bootstrapped Zerodha and are profitable too !

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Hi Triple S, it isn't sponsored 🙂 we would make it clear in the video itself if it was. -Caleb

[@shivamtiwari670]

When can we expect the second part. Need to know what he did next

[@hdkloh6857]

Surprisingly Zomato doesn't have their own restaurant.

[@AbhijitPatil-s7e]

Brooo even I used to play age of empires

[@adrikashree]

I got to see Zomato add before this video

[@alp1584]

They were bad at studies and they got iit 🙂 i am good at studies i am at vidhya pidth clg Indore

[@chetangp]

Nice video

[@hemant-li1gp]

6:28 Bain and Company is not gurugram based, its not even Indian origin firm

[@sooraj111]

Funny part is, IItians like they were bad in studies and got into IIT.

[@ManavMadaan]

more, i want more. moreeeeeeeee....

[@PremKumar-st1tm]

By the way he worked FOR 'BAIN AND COMPANY' after IIT so he was not unemployed

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Did you watch the video Prem? He couldn’t get a job (unemployed fresher) so he started an early version of Zomato. That failed, so he joined Bain. -Caleb

[@blade1376]

man he was from iit

[@pratyushbehere3580]

AOE2 !!!

[@rylaczero3740]

Fun fact: OLA founder was also a casual AOE player.

[@2011manikanta]

As a past employee of Zomato, I can vouch for the fact that the information that is provided in this video is inaccurate and made only for sensationalism. Shows how people can do anything or say anything for some eyeballs, likes and subscriptions and rest of the people lap it up.

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Manikanta, please tell me which parts of the video was inaccurate, happy to share the source of that info. We actually did more research on this story than pretty much any other BwM project, digging into old web archives, news articles, blog posts written by Deepinder, and even contacting a former intern who worked on Foodlet back when Deepinder was at Bain. Please let me know which parts of the video you’ve taken issue with. -Caleb

[@rithvikadumulla]

Part 2 when?😫

[@mallasarjsulebhanvi4128]

Miraculously got into IIT. Really ?

[@kunalkathuria3083]

I don't like to say this but this is the first time I literally hate you guys. The content was amazing but the fact that now I have to wait for ep is not . So please don't take inspiration from Netflix...... Many of us don't like the multi season thing .

[@architgoyal6470]

Nice

[@raghunathsinghrajpurohith4894]

No Jio doesn't exist at that time.

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

That's correct Raghunath, Jio only started offering cheap 4G in India in 2016, long after Foodlet/Foodiebay had been renamed to Zomato. -Caleb

[@sdandai]

totally nonsense...once someone succeeds, everyone tries to prove how poor he was or how bad he was at studies..Murthy of infosys was a good example desperately trying to prove how poor he was...

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Sources, in case you're interested to hear it directly from Deepinder: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqi7eoqshKZgiNU and kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqXCpHhuZZZ1m6s -Caleb

[@adityagupta7288]

kabhi kabhi to lagte youtube ich University hai

[@dreamerLevel]

didnt like the video, but i like ur content that's why i hit the like

[@techbasics6142]

Wasn't zomato a copy of another startup in bangalore who used to publish online menu, started with B i am forgetting the name. Zomato actually copied that model and zomato delivery came a lot later after foodpanda (originally called something) else, then swiggy and then zomato...so this story is useless...i have actually seen rise of each of these, swiggy founder delivered a order at my place in blr at that they used to charge 20 bucks to order from anywhere, even if the restaurant was not listed...

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Hi Techbasics, Swiggy was founded in 2014. TinyOwl was 2014. Foodpanda was 2012. Are you talking about Hungry Bangalore? They were started in July of 2006, 4 months after Foodlet. Or maybe you're talking about Burrp? (not Bengaluru-based, they were from Mumbai). That was started 1 month after Hungry Bangalore. We covered this competition in Part 2 of this Zomato series: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fX-Tc32opt-Ig8U watch from 2 minutes 39 seconds if you're interested to understand how Foodlet was first. You're right though, Zomato was not the first to do delivery - they copied that from their competition. -Caleb

[@arjunbhosale9967]

good change ya

[@ranjithmohan6241]

I dont know you know but this is such a first bull I am hearing from you, as I work in the same space and Zomato did not start with delivering food + Dipendar goyals story as clickbait is a whole lot of swirl you bring in, show some respect to this man... do your research properly and please put proper thought in research

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Hi Ranjith, happy to share with you all of the sources of the info we used to make this video, but first please tell me which parts of the video you think are incorrect/false, ideally with timestamps, and I will share the source of that info. At 7:22 I said that customers could place an order via Foodlet and have it delivered to them. Of course, Foodlet did not have a fleet of delivery partners at this point in time, so the delivery was not handled by Foodlet, but instead the restaurant itself. If you don't believe us about this food ordering functionality, see it for yourself: web.archive.org/web/20060701100400/www.foodlet.com/store/home.php This is Foodlet's website in July of 2006. In the top right corner you can find the "Current Order" button, and when you click on that, you will be directed to a URL called foodlet.com/store/shopping_cart - at this URL, customers could place their order. I do not know if this service was cash-on-delivery, or if there was some kind of online payment function, but my guess would be COD, as online payments still weren't very common in India in 2006. "Dipendar goyals story as clickbait" Again, please share the parts of Deepinder's story in our video which you felt were untrue or misleading, and I will be more than happy to clarify the source of that info. We did many weeks of deep research into old news articles, old videos, archived websites, blog posts written by Deepinder, Deepinder's old Facebook posts, and more. Finally, you said "show some respect to this man" - I have the utmost respect and admiration of Deepinder Goyal. He is a stellar entrepreneur, and a very courageous person in my opinion, and I actually look up to him as a source of inspiration, which is why I wrote the script for this video, in order to highlight his amazing journey where he overcame so many obstacles to do something innovative and unique. -Caleb

[@mariyappanyadavr5852]

Niceeee

[@chandanynot]

No one gets into IIT by fluke. You want to write a pressing story go ahead. Don't paint someone to be a loser who suddenly got into IIT.

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Hi Chandan, kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqXCpHhuZZZ1m6s watch from 5:18 Deepinder paints himself as a loser who suddenly got into IIT, we're just borrowing his words here. You're welcome to reach out and tell him that he's wrong about his own life story though, here's his Twitter: twitter.com/deepigoyal -Caleb

[@adwetanurag]

He was a terrible student but He cracked into IIT ? BULLSHIT

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

I think by the time he applied to get into IIT-D, his grades had improved. That said, the quote we provided in the video, about him calling it a fluke, came directly from his mouth. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqXCpHhuZZZ1m6s < watch at 5:18 and this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqi7eoqshKZgiNU < at 4:27 -Caleb

[@adwetanurag]

@@backstagewithmillionaires hmm, maybe

[@mygallery4899]

😊👍

[@nimbus2758]

i heard different story... i dont think this story is true

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

What story did you hear Yudhan? We did a ton of background research to make this video, but I am actually very curious to hear a new side of the story of you'd be open to replying here. -Caleb

[@imsharathkumar]

A very big fluke though

[@prasenjeetagrawal3422]

stop glorifying copied ideas

[@backstagewithmillionaires]

Absolutely nothing wrong with copying Prasenjeet, who told you otherwise? Many of the best businesses in history were copied, and those copies out-performed the incumbents because of superior execution. The only place I've heard people looking down on "copying" is in an academic context - teachers tell us not to copy on assignments and tests, which are not at all representative of real world scenarios. In business, 99% of the ideas people have are already being implemented by someone, somewhere in the world, and there's nothing wrong with that. Unless someone is a genius and is able to come up with a 1% totally novel, unique idea, there is no other path except copying, and the people who can't swallow their pride and accept that usually end up not starting anything at all - they live their lives waiting for that 1% unique idea that never comes. That being said though, to my knowledge, Zomato is actually a rare startup which was (for the most part) not a copy. Please tell me which other company they were copying? As far as I understand, Deepinder was inspired by a New York-based company which was delivering food to offices (like a tiffin service). This was before Swiggy, Tiny Owl, Foodpanda, and basically every other Indian food delivery startup. Even if Zomato did copy someone though (please let me know who they copied, am curious about this), copying adds healthy competition to the market - imagine if there was one 1 of everything? 1 ISP, 1 automotive manufacturer, 1 smartphone company? If copying was "bad business" then why are there so many competing companies, driving the prices of items down so that they're more affordable for consumers? -Caleb

[@yashrathi4304]

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