HIGHLIGHTS: Robert Gentz - Co-CEO of Zalando

Hi everybody, tune in to this short version of the podcast which we do every Friday. For the long version, tune in on Wednesdays. Hi everyone, I'm Nikola Tanyan, the CEO of the Norwegian So on Wealth Fund, and today I'm here with Robert Gentz, who is visiting us in Oslo. And Robert is the co-founder and co-CEO of Zalando, which is, of course, as you know all of you, Europe's leading online fashion platform. Robert started Salando in 2008 right as the financial crisis hit and most people thought that selling shoes online was a terrible idea.

But now, 17 years later, Salando serves more than 50 million customers across 25 European markets. We own a lot of shares in this company and it's really exciting to have you here. Yeah, thank you very much for for inviting me and having me. Now, Robert, let's go back to the start. You founded uh Salando in 2008.

just as the financial crisis uh was kind of hitting the world. So tell me about the very start. Before we started Solano, like me and my co-founder David, we started like a a social media company in um in Latin America, so which was like, you know, student network for um uh in Mexico, Argentina and Chile. And this was like a startup that didn't really work out. So and then we said, okay, well, that that shouldn't be it.

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