A behind-the-scenes IIT grad who turned Zomato’s ‘mistake’ into a dream run

A tall jolly good fellow zigzagging through Delhi streets on his Bullet and dribbling ball on basketball courts. That is the picture of Albinder Dhindsa that flashes on the minds of people who know him from his IIT Delhi days. Atypical for an IIT lad, Dhindsa comes from the family of landlords from Sangrur in Punjab, a citadel of Jat Sikhs. He traded off the serenity of the vast farmlands in the interior Punjab for the vagaries of startup life.