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- Greg Orlowski co-founded London-based Deliveroo in 2012 and Peanut in 2016, and he served as the CTO of both companies in their early stages. He is currently active as an investor and board advisor at a few technology startups.
Deliveroo is a British online food delivery company founded by Will Shu and Greg Orlowski in 2013 in London, England. It operates in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Singapore, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar.
May 27, 2016 · Greg Orlowski, a computer programmer who launched Deliveroo with Will Shu just three years ago, resigned as its chief technology officer and as a director earlier this month.
- Jamie Nimmo
This discrepancy is where the idea of Deliveroo was born, crafted by Shu and his friend Greg Orlowski in 2013. Starting in a small rented apartment, Shu donned a backpack and hit the streets, delivering food personally to better understand the landscape he intended to transform.
William Shu is Deliveroo’s chief executive officer while Greg Orlowski was previously the company’s chief technology officer. Orlowski left the company in 2016 and is currently an investor and advisor in Charlotte-based power distributions provider Atom Power.
- My Advice For Entrepreneurs
- Getting to Know Food Delivery as An Investment Banker
- An American in London
- The Just Eat Experience
- Leaving The World of Finance For Business School
- Starting Deliveroo and Overcoming The Scepticism
- Getting The Business to Where It Is Today
“If there’s any advice I would give to would-be entrepreneurs, it would be: 1. To have one idea that you’re super passionate about. Don’t start ‘Etsy for pets’ if you don’t really like dogs right! 2. You have to be pretty irrational as well because chances are it’s not going to work out but you have to believe in it. 3. Thirdly, you can’t hedge you...
“Deliveroo is a very personal story for me and for Greg, my co-founder. I’m American, I grew up in Connecticut and my first job out of college was as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York in 2001. “I entered this world where I was working 100 hours a week and it was pretty miserable. The one cool thing about the job was that t...
“In 2004 I was transferred to the London office in Canary Wharf. Back then I was literally working the same hours as in New York. I had to go to Tesco’s every night or Chilli’s and it just became really depressing. I know this isn’t a global issue right; you’re probably thinking ‘Oh, he couldn’t get great food delivered!’ but, when you’re working t...
“Fast forward a few years and I’m working at a hedge fund. My hours are okay and the likes of the online marketplaces are really taking off; like Just Eat. I was super excited to try it but when I did, I found that there were two fundamental issues. One, I didn’t recognise any of the restaurants that were listed; they were places like Chang’s Expre...
“In 2010, I went back to the US and went to business school because I’d spent nine years in finance and I really just wanted to do something else. It was a way for me to drink for two years and hang out to be totally honest with you! But it did give me time to think. “One of my friends there – probably the smartest guy I know – literally had about ...
“After graduation, I teamed up with Greg again. At this point, the cost of smartphones and tablets was very reasonable so we decided to start Deliveroo to solve the dual problems I recognised with Just Eat [lack of recognisable restaurants and slow delivery times). “At the time, we definitely ran into a lot of sceptics. They would say things like ‘...
“The business eventually grew through word of mouth and we expanded neighbourhood by neighbourhood across London for the first two years. We were self-financed for the first two years or so and then about a year ago we launched our first city outside of London which was Brighton. We then launched in Manchester and then in April 2015 we launched in ...
Mar 31, 2021 · But it was Shu and his cofounder Greg Orlowski who turned the desk dream into a reality in 2013, founding Deliveroo to offer takeaway from a wide range of places on demand.
Will Shu launched Deliveroo in London alongside his childhood friend, Greg Orlowski, in 2013.
