The following blog post originally went out as an email from Sriharsha Majety (Co-founder & CEO, Swiggy) to all Swiggy employees, on 18 May, 2020. Dear Team, Thanks for attending the town hall today, and I hope you’re staying safe and well. As I’d mentioned during the session, today is one of the saddest days...
The COVID-19 pandemic demanded a nation-wide lockdown. Unfortunately, this solution came with a life-threatening problem: hunger. Lakhs of daily wage workers and migrant labourers lost their livelihoods overnight, and were stranded in relief camps. With no jobs and no way to get back home, several were going hungry every day. At Swiggy, our eyes were...
It was 7 years ago that I first reached out to a friend, requesting him to put me in touch with any good developers he knew. Back then, Nandan and I were frantically looking for a tech co-founder and were using contractors to keep the lights on at Bundl (our start-up before Swiggy was born)....
