Deliveroo Founder - From £0 to £5 Billion: Will Shu

I just knew. This city needed something better than the the classic takeaways. That's how I got the idea for delivery. I definitely know what it was like to walk in their shoes. I did that job for a long time. I did, you know, five deliveries last night. And that's why, you know, treating riders with respect and making sure their voices are heard is so important to me. Running low on money.

'Cause we couldn't get money in for whatever 14 months. COVID kicks off. Our users were were disappearing because there are no restaurants left on the platform. So we see this plummeting growth. I had to do the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I had to lay off, you know, a significant number of people at the company. I'm so proud of what we built and I'm so excited about the future, but it is a hard, hard job and anyone That tells you otherwise not being honest. We're about to get all this money in the company. And then suddenly it was just gone.

Right. Yeah. Big number. Six hundred million, something like that? And I was like Holy shit. You know, what do we do?

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