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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
Assertion Supported
Östberg: Glovo was losing $330M annually when Delivery Hero acquired it
“And global, we lost three hundred thirty million. When we acquired it”
Niklas Östberg Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 40:44 Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Contradicted
Glovo's GMV Reached Nearly 1% of National GDP in Certain Markets
“Like we were in some markets where our GMV, our gross merchandise value is getting too close to one percent of the GDP of the country, right?”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 9:05 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Glovo's Monthly Burn Rate Reached €30 Million During Its Rapid Expansion Phase
“The burn was really scary, and it kept going up, no? 1520, 30.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 31:55 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Contradicted
Glovo Secured the Largest Delivery Deal in History With McDonald's
“We unlocked the biggest deal of all history for delivery, which was McDonald's.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 0:19 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Contradicted
Oscar Pierre Claims Glovo Is the Market Leader in All Operating Markets
“I don't think any large competitor is now bigger than us in, in any of the markets where we operate.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 18:31 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Glovo Achieved Its First Profitable Semester on Its Tenth Anniversary
“Yeah, we just turned profitable. We just turned 10 years, and the last, last semester was our first profitable semester.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 55:20 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Partly supported
Rakuten's Hiroshi Mikitani Led Glovo's Series A After Chance FC Barcelona Meeting
“When there were no VCs left to pitch to, Glovo was saved because I was in a, I was in an event of the FCB, Football Club Barcelona, whose sponsor back then was Rakuten. Rakuten is the Amazon of Japan. And Mikitani was, which is the founder, he was there in the…”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 20:45 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Glovo Is Approaching a Top-Line Run Rate of Seven Billion Euros
“We're at getting to seven billion top line.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 55:10 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Glovo Raised a New Funding Round Every Nine Months for Seven Years
“So for seven years, we raised a round every nine months.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 22:46 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Partly supported
Glovo Raised €1.5 Million in Its Second Funding Round
“It took a while, took a year, and that took us to the next round, which was like a million and a half.”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 5:06 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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