Zomato founder defends AI wearable Temple: $30M spent, $20M his own money
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-11-05
Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal publicly pushed back against Indian doctors accusing his AI wearable Temple of being a scam:
- Business logic: Temple offers 14-day no-questions-asked returns (which even Apple doesn't offer in India). If the product didn't work, it would fail within days and the company would die before recovering a fraction of R&D.
- The numbers: $30M spent building Temple, $20M of it his own money — selling a few thousand devices recovers only a small fraction, hardly a profitable scam.
- Incentives: He left the Eternal CEO role to chase purpose, saying his wealth lasts generations and his incentives are fully aligned with getting the science right.
A high-profile response amid the ongoing Temple controversy.
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