Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal says he left Eternal, the company he founded about 18 years ago, to start Temple, describing the move as driven by a health-wearable he developed as a weekend project while still CEO. In a vision note, he says the wearable work led to an engineering breakthrough and ultimately pushed him toward the Temple effort.
In separate comments on X, Goyal responds to Indian doctors who have criticised Temple’s health-related claims. He also says he invested $20 million of his own money into the project. NDTV reports that Goyal has laid out a set of questions he plans to answer publicly, including why he left Eternal, what Temple is building, its stated vision, and what he says it has in store “for humanity.”
Overall, the outlets largely align on the central storyline: Goyal’s departure from Eternal, his rationale tied to an earlier wearable prototype, and his plan to explain Temple’s direction and vision while addressing criticism of its health claims.
