{"id":32575,"date":"2022-08-17T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T08:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/?p=32575"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:11:37","slug":"ratan-tata-to-invest-in-an-older-citizen-camaraderie-startup-goodfellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/ratan-tata-to-invest-in-an-older-citizen-camaraderie-startup-goodfellows.html","title":{"rendered":"Ratan Tata to Invest in An Older Citizen Camaraderie Startup- Goodfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Ratan Tata, an industrialist with a clear vision of the future, made an undisclosed investment in the senior companionship business Goodfellows on August 16. Shantanu Naidu founded Goodfellows, who happened to be Ratan Tata&#8217;s business assistant and a general manager in Tata&#8217;s office.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k817RiMGm24\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k817RiMGm24<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegoodfellows.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Goodfellows<\/strong><\/a> is a paid service that matches senior folks with recent college graduates has completed a six-month beta phase in Pune. The organization plans to expand in Mumbai, Chennai, and Bengaluru. The firm seeks to provide companionship to needy and lonely senior citizens as a service.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ratan N. Tata extended his thoughts on the investment and said,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_qMJh8WH460\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_qMJh8WH460<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p><strong><em>The bonds between the two generations created by Goodfellows are very meaningful and are helping to address an important social issue In India. I hope the investment helps the young team at Goodfellows grow.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shantanu Naidu, the founder of\u00a0 Goodfellows, commented on the generous investment by stating,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p><strong><em>The startup emphasizes that companionship means different things to different people. To some, it may mean watching a movie, narrating stories from the past, going on a walk, or quiet company sitting around doing nothing together, and we are here to accommodate it all. 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Shantanu Naidu founded Goodfellows, who happened to be Ratan Tata&#8217;s business assistant and a general manager in Tata&#8217;s office.\u00a0 Goodfellows is a paid service that matches senior folks with recent college<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":32578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Ratan-Tata-invests-in-thegoodfellows-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Ratan-Tata-invests-in-thegoodfellows-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Shankar Jangid","author_link":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/author\/jshankar"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Ratan-Tata-invests-in-thegoodfellows.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596814,"href":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32575\/revisions\/596814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emizentech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}