Garg: Gobble started with an $8-a-plate Craigslist ad for home-cooked meals
Ushma Garg · a16z Podcast | The Data Science of Food and Taste · Jan 2, 2019 · at 16:02
Ushma Garg is the founder and CEO of meal-kit company Gobble. She describes how solving her own need for home-cooked food led to the founding of Gobble.
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“Gobble just started very organically by me solving the problem for myself and posting a Craigslist ad and asking, hey, can anyone make me home cooked food for eight dollars a plate?”
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