Ahmed Shalabi, founder of the Egypt-based IU seafood ordering app, discusses the platform's unit economics and pricing model with Nathan Latka.
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“The average order size around 250 Egyptian pounds. And my commission is around 15% of this value.”
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Shalabi: Global delivery apps left Egypt after Talabat took entire market
“We were, we had global ones in our market, but they are, they quit Egypt because Talbot acquired all the market share entirely.”
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Shalabi: Mainstream Delivery Apps Overlook the Seafood Market
“Seafood is not it's not a great focus for similar apps in the market. There is a clear gap we are making in delivering seafood.”
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Shalabi: Talabat charges restaurants around 35% commission per order
“They are asking them for around 35 percent on order.”
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Disclosure
Shalabi: Will Go Full-Time on IU After 3x-ing Engineering Salary
“Hopefully, when I, three X my day job salary.”
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Disclosure
Shalabi: IU Spent Around $500 on Google Ads Last Month
“I spent around 500 dollars.”
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Disclosure
Shalabi pays developer $500 monthly to rent IU marketplace software
“Mainly on the application itself, the developer, the development company, I am hiring, I'm renting the application from them with mostly fees 500 dollars.”
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