5 Lessons from love of Ice Creams!
I meet hundreds of people whose passion gives me energy but, this one’s passion gives me world’s unique ice creams. From Ice Cream Lover to creator of this beautiful range of blissful Tangelo Ice Creams brand, Pawan Malhotra’s story has so many takeaways for entrepreneurs.
1. Passion without Perseverance is useless: Flashback 2007- A corporate exec loved ice creams and started experimenting with new flavors in his kitchen. What he made in the kitchen after every experiment is a completely different story to tell. Fast forward 2019- he has a team, a brand to be proud of, a swanky world class professional kitchen.
2. Brand Promise is Sacrosanct: Pawan wanted to offer the best natural ice creams to people that can be made anywhere in the world. And no matter what, he kept his promise. From Muscat, London to Gurgaon, Tangelo tastes the best.
3. Innovation Everyday: From Margarita Ice Creams to vegan and high protein ice creams, he understood customer’s changing preferences and kept on improving his product. Catering to the new Vegan consumer wasn’t his original plan but, he knew he could cater to them if he experimented with new recipes.
4. Age is a state of mind : Who says entrepreneurs need to be young? Well, young at heart and in mind. While others think of hanging their boots, Pawan with Bina (his wife and biggest critique) and his daughter started this beautiful business of ice-creams
5. Your Network is your Net worth: If I understand it right, Tangelo ice-creams have 6 outlets within NCR and there are more coming up. However, Pawan’s network of friends, colleagues and well wishers became his first set of test market, critics and now big fans…including me!
For ice-cream lovers here is the link https://www.tangeloicecream.com/.
Ex-CMO. Strategy Consultant. Entrepreneur. Doctoral scholar - Golden Gate University, CA. Winner 50 Under 50 Spotlight Award 2024. Asia’s 100 Influential Mktg Leaders 2022. Advisor&Mentor: GirlUp UN Foundation Prog
4 年Waiting to taste Tangelo Ice Cream Desserts when I’m at Gurgaon next. And perhaps also meet Malhotra, Pawan to experience his inspirational entrepreneurial journey first hand! Thanks for sharing CP Gurnani
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5 年CP Gurnani?A brilliant and insightful post! Thank you Sir for writing and sharing with us!
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5 年Thanks everyone for your encouraging comments... now I win more ice-cream treats from Malhotra, Pawan??
I checked out the flavours which will be liked whether Chocolate or fruit etc. We agreed on the flavours and Tangelo ice cream was delivered. I am always concerned that hope the ice cream came upto my customer expectations. I was nervous because CP is a perfectionist and my joy will be in his delight and the guests delight. Next morning I got feedback that they all loved the ice cream. I was I was in Seventh heaven. I got repeat order and then this very encouraging blog. No wonder CP runs such a successful organisation. His Passion for people and hand holding is evident from the effort made by him to motivate me. Indeed delighted to be associated with CP. Enjoy Tangelo!