Temple founder backpedals on pricing backlash: 'not made for India, less than 1% sold there'
mgill25 · x · 2026-11-09
After two days of criticism over Temple's pricing, founder Deepinder Goyal issued a Diwali statement: the product targets the global market (under 1% of sales expected in India), pricing reflects significant work so complaints should wait for user reviews, and the startup doesn't want nationalist support — it wants to compete globally.
Commenter mgill25 calls it hard backpedaling, "like watching a car crash in slow motion," suggesting the response hasn't calmed the backlash.
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