Östberg: Delivery Hero shares responsibility for Glovo's regulatory challenges
Niklas Östberg · Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 12, 2025 · at 1:04:24
Niklas Östberg is the CEO of Delivery Hero, which acquired Spanish delivery platform Glovo. He addresses how Delivery Hero supports Glovo CEO Oscar Pierre through Spanish regulatory pressure and fines.
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“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.”
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