rahul mathen

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[Premier League @premierleague]

Champions League qualification secured for 2026/27 🏆

Congratulations, @ManUtd 🔴

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

An important update on leadership changes at Eternal.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Zomato and Blinkit delivered at a record pace yesterday, unaffected by calls for strikes that many of us heard over the past few days.

Support from local law enforcement helped keep the small number of miscreants in check, enabling 4.5 lakh+ delivery partners across both platforms to deliver more than 75 lakh orders (all-time high) to over 63 lakh customers during the day. This happened without any additional incentives for delivery partners - NYE does see higher incentives than usual days and yesterday was no different than the past NYE days.

I am grateful to local authorities across the country and to our teams on the ground for clear enforcement and swift coordination.

Most importantly, thank you to our delivery partners who showed up despite intimidation, stood their ground, and chose honest work and progress.

One thought for everyone: if a system were fundamentally unfair, it would not consistently attract and retain so many people who choose to work within it. Please don’t get swept up by narratives pushed by vested interests.

The gig economy is one of India’s largest organised job creation engines, and its real impact will compound over time, when delivery partners’ children, supported by stable incomes and education, enter the workforce and help transform our country at scale.

[rahul mathen @rahulmathen]

@IndiGo6E Ive shared the details via DM @IndiGo6E

[rahul mathen @rahulmathen]

@IndiGo6E - Three of us did not recieve our check-in luggage yesterday after our flight from Delhi to Kochi
Flight number 6E 2315

It was asssured to us that they would send the missing bags in the next flight to cok - (did not happen) and we had to wait till 1am yesterday .

[rahul mathen @rahulmathen]

@IndiGo6E please help us with this.

[rahul mathen @rahulmathen]

@mistervickster +1 to methiyadis

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Hiring update on the Chief of Staff –

We started with 18,000+ applications and have had the privilege of meeting over 150 incredibly talented individuals. From this, 30 exceptional people received offers, and 18 have already joined Zomato (and other group companies like Blinkit) in high-impact roles. They’re being handsomely compensated for the value they bring, and nobody paid anything to work with us.

Who are these 30 people? Founders who bootstrapped startups from their dorm rooms, engineers who rewrote entire tech stacks over a weekend, operators who turned chaos into scale, and a handful of brilliant young minds fresh out of college—people we believe will lead us into the future.

What sets them apart? A long-term mindset. They weren’t optimizing for short-term outcomes but for compounding impact—the most misunderstood mathematical miracle. Finding people who truly get this is rare, and I’m grateful we did.

4 of the 18 people who have already joined us, work directly with me, and 2 of them are in Chief of Staff roles.

And we’re not done. With 18,000+ applications, we’re still carefully sifting through this amazing talent pool. This isn’t just a one-time hiring sprint—it’s a long-term investment in the people who will build the future with us. We’ll keep reaching out to the right folks, slowly but surely.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Update 3.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Out now - our Q1FY25 Report: https://t.co/lpKK2SAcsl

If you have any further questions or feedback, please email us at [email protected]. Always listening!

Quick snapshots of how we’re powering India’s changing lifestyles 🧵

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Coming soon.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Excited to unveil India's first crowd-supported weather infrastructure, https://t.co/qE9kkfoisG. A proprietary network of 650+ on-ground weather stations, it is the largest private infrastructure of its kind in our country.

These weather stations, developed by Zomato, provide localised, real-time information on key weather parameters such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, rainfall etc. Currently available across 45 large cities, we are expanding this in other Indian cities very soon.

This rich data holds significant potential in unlocking weather use cases for enterprises and research institutes. Having already collaborated with CAS - IIT Delhi, we expect more institutions and companies to benefit from this and contribute towards the greater good of our economy.

At Zomato, it was crucial for us to have access to precise and real-time weather information to make the right business decisions to serve our customers better. Hence, we took it upon ourselves to develop a solution capable of empowering us on this front.

We are now opening up free access to this (through an API) to all institutions and companies in the country. Wait. What? Free? Really? Yes, we believe that this data is too valuable to keep to ourselves or to monetise; therefore, as a Zomato Giveback, we are opening up access to this data to everyone for public good. Multiple companies and public institutions should use real-time weather data, to boost the productivity of our economy.

Also, a lot of Zomato employees have hosted weather stations at their homes. As we look forward to further expanding this infrastructure, we welcome volunteers who want to provide us space on their premises to install these weather stations and contribute to nation building.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Today, we are excited to introduce India's first large order fleet, designed to handle all your large (group/party/event) orders with ease. This is an all electric fleet, designed specifically to serve orders for a gathering of upto 50 people.

[rahul mathen @rahulmathen]

@mistervickster Shivaney. 🫠

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Ready to get (India’s) party started 🤞

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Hit our all-time high orders in a day on @zomato. Immense gratitude to all 🙏
Really thankful to all our delivery partners and restaurant partners who made this possible❤️

[rahul mathen @rahulmathen]

6-Day-6

Cheat day :)

[rahul mathen @rahulmathen]

5- Day 5
Still at it .

[rahul mathen @rahulmathen]

Day 2 was a no show . Day 3 was better :)