How Uber Took Over Food Delivery

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Jason Droege, the man in charge of Uber Eats, explains how the service started, how they interface with restaurants, and what they see as the future of the brand. Hosted by: Amanda Kludt and Daniel Geneen. Sign up for Amanda Kludt’s newsletter here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Eder Upsell part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:08.4	This is Amanda Clute, editor-in-chief of Eder.
0:10.6	I'm joined, as always by my star co-host Daniel Janine. Hi Dan.
0:14.5	Star. On today's episode of the show we are or I am talking to Jason Droggy who is
0:20.0	the head of Uber's delivery food delivery program.
0:23.0	Uber Eats, super big deal.
0:25.0	What do you think?
0:26.0	I'm excited to hear what you guys talked about.
0:28.0	Why did you want to talk to Jason?
0:30.0	What's going on with Uber Eats?
0:31.0	Well, Uber Eats, it has recently Well, Uber's CEO is super pumped that how much business
0:36.7	they're doing. It's like I think they they're projected to do six billion dollars
0:41.0	this year. It's a huge, huge space, but food delivery is massive. And like, looking
0:47.8	at food delivery through Uber's obsession with logistics, I think is a cool and interesting way of
0:53.7	understanding the business as a whole. Yeah I think a lot of different players want to
0:57.9	get into this space but Uber has this interesting advantage in that they have networks all over the world.
1:04.8	So seeing how they tackle it will be really interesting to watch.
1:08.3	I know Deliberu is a big entity in the space.
1:11.0	I know David Chang was trying to get into the space twice and failed and says he's going to look again.
1:15.0	He thinks it's like the future of making money and restaurants.
1:18.0	So they are definitely a company to be watching right now.
1:24.4	What you should know about Jason Drogy going in is that he is a serial entrepreneur.
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