Bogota
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Bilbao: Rappi faced bankruptcy until listing Bogota's top restaurants
“It started, when it first started, it was just trying to do grocery delivery. I knew it was not going well at all. Like it was not growing. We're clearly gonna go bankrupt. And then someone, maybe Simone, but someone came up with the idea of why let's not just…”
Bilbao: Rappi launched restaurant delivery by listing menus without merchant permission
“What are you going to do? Go and talk to each of them, have like three months negotiate. No dude, you just sent the courier. So you just got the menus. Put them on the app, and then people start ordering”
Bilbao: Rappi's 10-minute McDonald's delivery in Colombia is unmatched globally
“Like if you live in Bogota or maybe in Medellin, You cannot have that level of convenience that rapid provides anywhere in the world. You just cannot, you cannot get McDonald's in 10:12 minutes. You cannot. Only here.”
Borrero: Rappi acquired its first users by giving away donuts
“We had no users, so we had to go to the streets, and we actually started giving away donuts for downloads, and that's how we started to gain traction in a very small neighborhood in Bogota”
Borrero: Delivery apps rely on hyper-local density over citywide coverage
“Because this business has hyper-local network effects. You need to make a specific user fall in love with your service, so that specific user in a specific neighborhood in Bogota or in Sao Paulo, she or he gives a shit if you have a 100,000 restaurants in othe…”