Subsidized Service Traction Does Not Equal True Product-Market Fit
Oscar Pierre · Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Feb 26, 2025 · at 5:33
Oscar Pierre, founder and CEO of Glovo, defines why early customer demand enabled by loss-making unit economics isn't real product-market fit.
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“So that's not really product market fit because you're delivering a service that people like, but at the price that people don't want to pay.”
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