About Albinder Dhindsa
Entrepreneur Albinder Dhindsa founded an online delivery facility for everyday needs such as grocery, bakery items, fruits, vegetables and flowers. Noticing a gap in delivery and logistics, he went on to found Grofers, putting to use his background in transportation and technology. Keeping the customers in mind, he originally launched One-Number in 2013. It later became the successful company, Grofers.
Grofers promised delivery within 90 minutes from the shopper’s favorite sites. Scheduling rapid deliveries in busy cities was one of its best features.
Albinder Dhindsa Biography
Albinder Dhindsa is originally from Patiala, Punjab, India. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi with a bachelor’s degree. His early job was as a transportation analyst in URS Corporation. In 2007, he became a Senior Associate in Cambridge Systematics.
Finishing a Master’s degree in Business Administration at Columbia University in New York, Albinder Dhindsa joined UBS Investment Bank as an associate. At that point, he made the decision to move back to India. There he joined Zomato as the Head of International Operations.
It was while he worked at Zomato that his plans began to form, leading him to his bold project, Grofers. He knew that there were problems in logistics as well as mismanagement issues. Spotting problems with transactions between consumers and local merchants, he realized they had disorganization and needed improvement. The company had a struggle when it came to the infrastructure that was a need for delivery.
He became a partner with Saurabh Kumar and they realized that most orders came from pharmacy and grocery stores. With this in mind, they rebranded as themselves as Grofers, which was a hyper-local logistics company.The concept behind the birth of Grofers was discount shopping from the comfort of people’s homes. Before, shoppers had to visit their retail grocery or neighborhood store.
With their hard work, Grofers became one of the top 10 start-ups in Delhi in 2014 by YourStory.com. IndianWeb2.com named the company as among the top 10 promising Gurgaon-based start-ups. Dhindsa realized his dream.
News on Albinder Dhindsa
In 2017, Grofers had a value of $115 Million. It was to grow until it became part of blinkit.
Grofers rebranded and became blinkit, where everything has delivery within 10 minutes. Zomato now has an investment in the company. It was his former employer, Zomato, and Deepinder Goyal who gave money to Dhindsa for funding when he began his new venture.
He is active on Twitter and was part of a cover story for Forbes India in 2022. The blinkit company donates proceeds from its sales to victims of domestic violence. Blinkit now has over 300 stores and is a community of over 30,000 people for innovation for instant commerce.
Dhimdsa wants people to work for blinkit who think like founders, rather than employees.
FAQ
Akriti Chopra is his wife. She is the co-founder of Zomato and is an Indian entrepreneur.
He is born in Patiala, Punjab, India. Albinder Dhindsa’s age in 2021 was 40 years.
In 2021, Grofers’ valuation could be around 644 million USD. If he holds a 5-10% stake in the company, his net worth would have an estimate of about 30 to 65 million USD.
He began his career in 2005 as a transportation specialist at URS Corporation.
