Oscar Pierre

19 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 7 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2025 by Oscar Pierre · said 9 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Feb 26, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Oscar Pierre Says Softening His Communication at 1,000 Employees Ruined Glovo's Culture
“And that coincided when we got to around a thousand people. And I think I ruined it because I started getting scared of some part of our team reacting to how I said certain things. No, and I started being a bit of a politician.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 36:14 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Glovo Acquired Spanish and Portuguese Grocery Marketplaces for Approximately €5M Each
“Maybe, like, five million each, I don't remember.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 44:21 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Insight
Optimistic Entrepreneurs Consistently Underestimate the Complexity of M&A Integration
“I was just too optimistic about the upside, but not looking at how complex it is to integrate different tech stacks, different cultures, different teams.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 43:49 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025
Disclosure
Oscar Pierre Never Turned Down an Investor During Seven Years of Fundraising
“We, in the seven years of fundraising, I could never choose. I never said no to an investor. That's how little optionality I have.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 20:30 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Opinion
European Founders Do Not Need to Relocate to Silicon Valley to Compete
“No, I strongly disagree. Look, I think from Barcelona where there was very, a very small ecosystem of tech and tech talent, we were able to build top notch technology. I don't think our technology had anything to envy our American competitors. So I fully disag…”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 1:02:10 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
High Labor-to-AOV Ratio in Morocco Enables Glovo to Offer Cheaper Delivery
“In some cases, yeah. For example we see markets like Morocco where that ratio is, is very large and this allows us to offer the service much more affordable to the end customer.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 28:31 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025
Insight
Delivery Delay Trade-Offs Must Be Calculated Against Customer Lifetime Value
“Yeah, it's an optimization game. Like it's all about lifetime value and understanding very well how every minute of delay is going to impact the lifetime value or the retention of that customer for the next order. We try to measure this all the time. It's the …”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 12:37 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Oscar Pierre Predicts EU Regulatory Burdens Will Not Ease for Future Entrepreneurs
“Generally, I'm very optimistic in life, but I just don't see the incentives so that this trend changes. So in, now, in, in EU and regulations getting easier for the next wave of entrepreneurs, I'm not super optimistic.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 1:01:41 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Insight
Acquired Founders Will Usually Stop Building and Leave the Organization
“Of course, when you buy a company, that founder will most probably stop thinking about building and leave.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 43:59 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025 positive
Insight
Building a Hard-Working Culture Requires Finding Thousands, Not Millions, of Dedicated Talent
“If you sustain a hardworking culture, you will keep finding the talent is there. Young talent that wants to work hard. I mean, you don't need to convince a, you know, a million people. That's what I told the team, like when they told me, no, because now, you k…”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 1:03:01 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025 positive
Insight
Leaders Must Constantly Challenge Team Outputs to Maintain High Company Standards
“When I walk into a meeting, I try to remind myself, okay, my mission here is just to add more velocity and to raise the standards. No, nothing that they will present is going to be fine. No, this is the mentality that any leader has to go into, because if you …”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 40:50 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025
Disclosure
Oscar Pierre Pitched 120 VCs for Glovo's Series B, and All Passed
“I still have the list, a 120 VCs. And that passed not, not, not an email, but an actual call or a meeting.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 17:16 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Oscar Pierre Co-Founded Yellow VC, a €30M Early-Stage European Fund
“On one end, I co-founded a small VC in, in Europe called Yellow. So it's a thirty million fund we invest in, in young entrepreneurs, and it's a bit of a hobby.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 52:32 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025
Disclosure
Oscar Pierre Launched Glovo in Kenya and Kazakhstan Without Investor Approval
“I had to really convince them or even launch without their approval in countries like Kenya or I don't know, or Kazakhstan, because from the European point of view was like, who's going to order food delivery in Kenya?”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 27:46 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Oscar Pierre Paid a Russian Agency €8,000 for Glovo's First App
“I Googled, built an X for Uber. App, and I found a developing company in Russia, in Eastern Russia, that was the cheapest provider I found, and they promised me that they would deliver a first version of the app for like, 8000 euros.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 3:31 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Insight
Exited Entrepreneurs Who Stop Working for Wealth Management Lifestyles Are the Unhappiest
“I think one thing I realized very fast is a correlation between unhappiness and people that had stopped working. So those entrepreneurs that had made a big exit and moved into a wealth management lifestyle were the unhappiest.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 51:46 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Oscar Pierre Faces a Potential Six-Year Prison Sentence Over Glovo's Labor Model
“And unfortunately, the, yeah, the country where we suffer from regulation the most is Spain. I'm not going to go into the details, but it's so extreme that I'm now in a criminal process for so the, yeah, the prosecutor, the general attorney accused me with six…”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 59:32 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2025
Insight
Labor-to-AOV Ratio Matters More Than Absolute AOV in Food Delivery Economics
“More than the AOVs is the ratio between cost of labor and AOVs, which matters a lot.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 28:15 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 12, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Östberg: Delivery Hero shares responsibility for Glovo's regulatory challenges
“I cannot blame Oscar for challenges that he is not responsible for that has affected him, but where we have collectively taken decisions that we think are right, then of course we also take shared responsibility on those topics.”
Niklas Östberg Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 1:04:24 Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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