'The brightest person in the room': Meet Gaurav Gupta, co-founder, Zomato

Gupta, an Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management graduate, worked at A T Kearney before joining Zomato

Focused and passionate, but level-headed and approachable. That is how people who have worked or dealt with Gaurav Gupta, the Zomato co-founder who recently quit the food delivery firm, describe him.

Gupta has been the face of Zomato leading up to its blockbuster initial public offering in July this year, and his exit came as something of a surprise. Known to people within the company as GG, he is known to be a people’s person.

“GG was the calm to Zomato’s chaos,” says a person who has worked with Zomato. “He could handle (difficult) situations very well, and was often