Lucie Basch

Co-founder, Too Good To Go · 1 appearance on the record.

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In 2016, she co-founded the anti-food-waste platform Too Good To Go, spearheading its launch in France and international expansion to connect consumers with surplus food. She later co-founded both the Paris collaborative hub The Climate House and the peer-to-peer item rental app Poppins.

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6 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Lucie argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Basch: 40% of global food is wasted, generating 10% of emissions

“Today we throw away 40% of the food we produce on the planet, that this is responsible for about 10% of greenhouse gases emission, and that still nearly a billion people go to bed hungry every night.”

Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 20:21 HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch

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What they said11 Episodes1

Everything Lucie Basch said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Basch: Nestlé prioritizes speed and cost over nutrition and the environment

“At Nestle, it's all about how can we produce faster and cheaper? And, you know, there is nothing around how can we improve the health of our consumers? How can we make it better for the environment? How can we make the food more nutritious?”

Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 1:22 HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch

Insight

Basch: Scaling meant achieving country-level profitability within 16 to 24 months

“And, you know, it was always the same mindset, is a country will become profitable between 16 and 24 months, and then it will pay for the next one.”

Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 26:11 HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch

Assertion Supported

Basch: 40% of global food is wasted, generating 10% of emissions

Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 20:21 HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch

Disclosure

Basch: Too Good To Go takes a $1.79 cut on a $5.99 bag

“So, one 79 goes to Too Good To Go, and everything else goes back to the store.”

Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 22:57 HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Basch: 50% of Too Good To Go European volume comes from supermarkets

“I mean, in Europe, 50% of the food we save every day comes from grocery partners in supermarkets.”

Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 24:19 HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch

Assertion Partly supported

Basch: Too Good To Go reached 12,000 US stores and 4M meals saved

“Today, you know, just a couple of years later, we are in 12,000 stores in the U.S. 12,000 stores. Yeah, so we've already saved more than four million meals in the U.S.”

Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 27:46 HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch

Assertion Supported

Basch: Too Good To Go reached 75M global users in seven years

“And in seven years, we managed to launch the concept in 17 countries. Yeah. We saved several hundred millions of meals with the app. We have more than seventy-five million consumers in the world”

Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 31:05 HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Basch: Too Good To Go rescues three meals every second

“And, you know, today we save three meals every second.”

Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 35:30 HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch

Assertion Supported

Basch: Too Good To Go acquired shelf-rotation startup Coda Bene

“We just acquired a company called Coda Bene that helps grocery stores to really do their shelf rotation in a smarter way.”

Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 36:17 HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch

Disclosure

Basch: Too Good To Go bags cost $4 to $6 for 3x value

“And so, you pay a small price on the app, between four and six dollars, basically, and then at the closing time, you come, you show your receipt on your phone, and then you get a bag filled with food for three times the price you paid for.”

Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 6:28 HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch

Disclosure

Basch: Too Good To Go bootstrapped without outside investment in year one

“So we didn't have an investment for the first year”

Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 15:49 HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch	Mar 9, 2023	26m

Lucie Basch

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