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Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ilishayev: GoPuff will be a multi-hundred billion dollar business by 2026
“And I think this business over the next five years is a multi-hundred billion dollar business.”
Rafael Ilishayev Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 33:03 20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ilishayev: GoPuff will achieve full company profitability by 2024
“That balance for us at least meant that we're profitable in 20, 24.”
Rafael Ilishayev Nov 2, 2022 ▶ 10:35 GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Partly supported
Ilishayev: GoPuff was EBITDA profitable from day one without external funding
“We didn't raise money for our first two and a half years. Day one, the business was producing EBITDA. It was profitable from day one”
Rafael Ilishayev Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 4:11 20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
Assertion Contradicted
GoPuff created a financial plan requiring no additional outside capital
“We built a new financial model that's completely self-funded. Right. One that doesn't require any more outside capital.”
Rafael Ilishayev Nov 2, 2022 ▶ 9:40 GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Held up
Ilishayev: GoPuff will not add hundreds of warehouses over the next 18 months
“We're not going to add a, you know, fleet of hundreds of more buildings in the next 18 months, right? We'll strategically open buildings where it makes sense, but we're not going to be opening up buildings like we were opening up buildings in the last 18 month…”
Rafael Ilishayev Nov 2, 2022 ▶ 12:54 GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Held up
Ilishayev: GoPuff opens 30 micro-fulfillment centers per month and is accelerating
“We're opening up 30 of these a month and accelerating even more.”
Rafael Ilishayev Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 8:08 20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
Prediction Held up
Ilishayev: GoPuff will invest hundreds of millions into European expansion
“So we'll be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the European market.”
Rafael Ilishayev Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 20:06 20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
Assertion Supported
Ilishayev: 100% of GoPuff mature markets are profitable and cash-flow positive
“A hundred percent of our comp markets that are profitable. They're producing cash flow.”
Rafael Ilishayev Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 8:40 20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
Assertion Supported
Salur: Getir targets 10-minute delivery compared to GoPuff's 30-minute model
“Their model is slightly different. They aim for about 30 minutes. We aim for 10 minutes.”
Nazim Salur Sep 16, 2021 ▶ 9:09 20VC: Getir Founder, Nazim Salur on The Future of Last Mile Convenience, Who Will Win? Lessons on Driver Acquisition and Efficiency, Zone Maturity and Time To Profitability and Scaling to 300 Cities in the US in 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Ilishayev: GoPuff covers one-third of the United States
“We cover a third of the U S”
Rafael Ilishayev Nov 2, 2022 ▶ 54:53 GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Ilishayev: GoPuff operates in 1,000+ cities with 12,000 employees
“To now where we are today, you know over a thousand cities on a global scale, you know, 12,000 employees globally”
Rafael Ilishayev Nov 2, 2022 ▶ 1:37 GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ilishayev: GoPuff will launch new business verticals within two quarters
“Whether it's FBA or AWS is something that we take a lot of inspiration from as we launch our new businesses, right? Whether it's a group of ads or some of the new businesses we have brewing that are launching in the next two quarters.”
Rafael Ilishayev Nov 2, 2022 ▶ 46:29 GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Ilishayev: GoPuff stocks 4,500 SKUs per micro-fulfillment center
“We have four and a half thousand SKUs per micro-fulfillment center, we don't have the massive tail of That a traditional big box has, right?”
Rafael Ilishayev Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 14:05 20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
Assertion Supported
Stebbings: GoPuff valued at $8.9B with $2.4B total raised
“GoPuff's latest funding round priced the company in a reported 8.9 billion dollars in March, 20 21, and to date, Raphael's raised over 2.4 billion dollars for the company.”
Harry Stebbings Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 0:19 20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
Assertion Partly supported
Ilishayev: GoPuff raised no outside capital in first three years
“We didn't raise money for our first three years.”
Rafael Ilishayev Nov 2, 2022 ▶ 1:08 GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Stebbings: GoPuff operates in over 550 cities with 7,000+ employees
“Raphael has scaled the company to over 550 U.S. Cities, with over 7000 employees nationwide”
Harry Stebbings Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 0:29 20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
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