Jamie Crummie, Co-Founder of Too Good To Go on: The Problem of Global Food Waste and How Too Good To Go Is Solving This Problem.
Jamie Crummie is the co-founder of Too Good To Go, the world’s largest marketplace for surplus food. Too Good To Go is now active in 15 countries and has over 29 million users who have rescued over 53 million meals collectively.
Jamie was named One Youn
- [0.49] - Your journey to founding Too Good To Go?
- [2:19] - Background on the food wastage problem
- [9:06] - How can businesses be more sustainable?
- [11:59] - What is a B Corp, who can get it, and what is its value?
- [12:58] - What are the trends you see from one city to another based on app downloads and transactions?
- [18:27] - How does Too Good To Go work?
- [22:14] - Why did you scale so fast and what were the challenges you faced?
- [25:11] - What are the specific challenges you faced from scaling so quickly?
- [28:32] - How did you address the impact to your organization when the pandemic disrupted your business significantly?
- [32:09] - How big is this opportunity for VCs and what is the VC landscape like?
- [33:38] - How does food waste innovation in Europe compare to other geos?
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