In this episode of Getting to Aha!, Darshan Mehta is joined by Ashutosh Mahindru, Founder and CEO at Foodtech Ventures. Together, they get right into some of the biggest hardships you will face when starting your first business, some of the best advice he’d give to his younger self, and how running a mobile food delivery business really works!

Ashutosh is the Founder and CEO of Foodtech Ventures, a company bringing food delivery to the twenty-first century and the world’s only baking on-the-go delivery platform. He is also a Pedal Grad - Zero to One at PedalStart, and was previously the Director of Operations at Raptor Supplies, the Director at Advanced Surfactants, and the Co-Founder at Advance Satellite News Gathering. With such a diverse background in a variety of industries, we can’t wait for you to hear his story!

👉 Ashutosh believes that, in order to succeed, you need to be able to stand out from the crowd and come up with innovative solutions to problems. He places a lot of importance on being different and doing something which doesn’t just fit into the status quo. All of his Aha! moments were rewarding and enriching, but part of him does wish he could go back and change some of them.

👉 Ashutosh acknowledges that he had a very fortunate upbringing, however, through various mishaps within his family’s businesses, the wealth and fortune they had built over four generations had been mostly destroyed. Suddenly, he found himself from being in a position of relative comfort and wealth, to having to think of where to find money for medicine and groceries. It was through this that he learned how to build something of his own.

👉 If he could go back and give his younger self some advice, Ashutosh says the biggest thing would be to have ‘belief and faith that time heals all’ and that ‘understanding that nothing is the end of the world.’ Ninety percent of getting through difficult times is getting up and motivating yourself; you have to rise to the challenge if you wish you succeed. Cliche as it sounds, you have to never give up and always get back up.

👉 Foodtech ventures was born out of seeing Dominos and Pizza Hut take the charge in the pizza delivery world. Ashutosh wanted to make sure that the food he was delivering to people wasn’t cold by the time it got to them. In fact, he wanted to completely circumvent this by making sure the food was straight out the oven and was still hot by the time the customer received it.

👉 It was super important to Ashutosh to make sure that all of their ingredients were fresh. They then make sure they’re secure in a moving vehicle as they’re cooking and eventually, by the time they’ve reached their destination, the food is piping hot and ready to be served to the customer.

👉 One of the biggest questions they get asked at Foodtech Ventures is about how they control quality. Ashutosh explains that they have CCTV inside the van so the chef can see what’s going on. Everything is photographed and checked before it’s sent out, making sure that they are providing the best quality food and service they possibly can.

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