Never built Swiggy to be a public figure: Co-founder Sriharsha Majety

Sriharsha Majety co-founded Swiggy in 2014.

Swiggy co-founder and managing director Sriharsha Majety is cautious about being the face of the company. Speaking to Forbes India ahead of Swiggy's IPO in November, Majety opened up about why he chose to maintain a distance from the media.

"I never built this to be a public figure. Never," he told the publication. "I don’t worry about individual status. The company we are building and the work we are doing need to be relevant. I don’t need to be relevant. Of course, my opinions matter. But I also believe that, throughout this journey, thousands of folks have come and helped build this company. And it is really the work of so many of us. I also tend to be a little cautious about being the face of anything. There are so many faces and just being one face of it worries me a lot."

Majety added that he has never been uncomfortable with speaking but he preferred to wait for moments best suited to come out and talk about Swiggy's story. But since the food and grocery delivery platform is gearing up to go public, it had to open up to a broader audience.

"When you are a private company, people need to know how the service is working, do they like it or they don’t like it. Beyond that, there was no job to be done in telling the Swiggy story," he said, adding that during the IPO, their stakeholder base increased. "Retail shareholders, a lot of them, want to know the Swiggy story beyond the numbers. I was very comfortable saying we need to tell why we started this and what we want to do. And that is it," he said.