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Subsidized Service Traction Does Not Equal True Product-Market Fit
“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.”
Delivery Giants Can Crush Local Rivals With a €20M to €30M Investment
“Because they have so much scale that they can just go into your home market and destroy your business with maybe like 20, thirty million investment.”
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 …”
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…”
Generous Layoff Severance Is a Vital Investment for Remaining Employee Morale
“It's not only about the people that will be leaving, which they deserve it. It's not their fault that you have to lay off or do a big layoff, but it's even more important for the people that stay because those people that you lay off are their friends and the …”
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.”
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.”
Founders Should Never Assume Pitch Conversations With Venture Capitalists Are Confidential
“I think one thing I realized as a first time founder, when I spoke to VCs back then, I thought I was having a one-on-one conversation. And in reality is like, if you are broadcasting to the entire VC community now, so the amount of chit chatting that happens a…”
First-Generation Food Delivery Platforms Left Massive City Supply Unlocked
“There was the generation one of food delivery in, in the case of Spain, Barcelona, where we started the business, it was Just Eat that basically had a marketplace where they aggregated restaurants that did the delivery themselves, but there wasn't a marketplac…”
Food Delivery Network Effects Stop at National Borders
“When you cross the border, it doesn't matter how big and how well-known your brand is in Spain. You go to Portugal and you start from zero.”
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 …”
Spanish Startups Have a Natural Competitive Advantage Expanding Into Latin America
“I think Spaniards entrepreneurs, it's a small secret we have there, but it's actually pretty natural for us to expand into LATAM, which is a massive market, right? There's a cultural and language thing there, right?”
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.”
Customer Discount Vouchers Push Food Delivery Orders Into Negative Unit Economics
“And vouchering in our business is, is horrible because you don't have, the margins are really thin. Anytime you go into a voucher, you go into negative economics.”
Shutting Down Failed Initiatives Requires Founders to Overcome Ego and Admit Mistakes
“I think shutting down things is a super important skill for a founder because at the end it's a, it's an ego thing. Because you have to go against what you have previously told the board, the investors, the employees, right?”
Moderate Growth Requires CEOs to Inject Energy, Unlike During Hyperscaling Phases
“I think in hyperscaling, things can work with the CEO being away fundraising, because there's just so much energy. Into the business that, that is transmitted. And it, you know, and actually that's what I had to do. I was all day fundraising. No, I was almost …”