{"id":58383,"date":"2025-10-07T00:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/58383\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T00:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:45:06","slug":"googles-head-of-startups-was-once-rejected-by-the-tech-giant-joined-zomato-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/58383\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Head of Startups was once rejected by the tech giant, joined Zomato instead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For Ragini Das, being appointed as the Head of Google for Startups – India is a \u201cfull circle\u201d moment. After all, she is joining the same company that had rejected her 12 years ago.<\/p>\n

\"Ragini Ragini Das co-founded Leap.club in 2020. (X\/@ragingdas) <\/p>\n

In a post shared on social media, Das, founder of the women-only professional networking community Leap.club, recalled how getting turned down by Google in 2013 turned out to be a blessing in disguise, allowing her to join Zomato instead and pursue entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n

She shared a brief overview of her professional journey in her X post, where she wrote: \u201cLife has come full circle, and I\u2019m excited to share that I\u2019ve joined Google as Head of Google for Startups – India.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Zomato to Leap.club<\/p>\n

In 2013, Ragini Das sat for two interviews \u2013 one at Google and the other at Zomato. She did not make it to Google, but she did crack the Zomato interview and became one of the startup\u2019s early employees.<\/p>\n

For Das, the six years she spent at Zomato <\/a>\u201cchanged everything\u201d. She quickly climbed the corporate ladder and was a part of the global growth team for Zomato Gold by the time she quit in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cZomato helped me identify my career moat, gave me lifelong friends, an incredibly steep learning curve and the resilience to eventually co-found Leap.club,\u201d she wrote on X.<\/p>\n

(Also read: Who is Ragini Das? Google appoints Leap.club co-founder as Head of Startups, India<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Launching Leap.club<\/p>\n

In 2019, Das decided to leave Zomato to pursue entrepreneurship. She founded Leap.club, which she describes as her \u201cmost defining chapter\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gave me purpose, an identity and I can proudly say, changed lives for thousands of women,\u201d she said on X. \u201cThrough this journey, I had the privilege of connecting with founders tackling some of India’s most pressing challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

A full circle moment <\/p>\n

When Leap.club paused operations in June this year due to financial challenges, Das took some time out to focus on herself. She was not sure what the next step would be \u2013 until she saw an opening at Google that aligned perfectly with her career goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometime in August, I came across a role at Google that perfectly aligned with my journey. The role sat at the intersection of 0\u201310, founders and everything I’ve built over the years. It kinda felt like destiny,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n

She concluded her post by saying that she is excited to bring the global impact of Google for Startups to India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Ragini Das, being appointed as the Head of Google for Startups – India is a \u201cfull circle\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[114,293,43551,85,46,43553,43552,35442],"class_list":{"0":"post-58383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-google-for-startups","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-leap-club","14":"tag-ragini-das","15":"tag-zomato"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}