TechCheck+ CookUnity CEO on Creating a Chef-To-Consumer Marketplace 2/14/23
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4.5 • 66 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone I'm Julie Morrison. Welcome to a Tech Check Plus live stream. Today I'm interviewing |
| 0:07.0 | Mateo Marieti. He's the co-founder and CEO of Cook Unity, Mateo, |
| 0:13.4 | Moteo, sorry, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 0:16.0 | Hi, Julie, how you doing? |
| 0:18.0 | Thank you for inviting us. |
| 0:19.0 | So Cook Unity is such an interesting platform. |
| 0:21.5 | It's raised $100 million your most recent round |
| 0:24.4 | in the fourth quarter of last year. |
| 0:26.8 | You've described it as wanting to be like this Spotify |
| 0:29.6 | of food delivery. |
| 0:30.6 | Explain to us, Mateo, for those of us who aren't familiar with the platform what is |
| 0:34.6 | cook unity how does it work yes the concept is readily simple but it |
| 0:39.6 | hasn't been tried before and consumers are very used today to have access, democratize, access to everything, music, videos. |
| 0:49.0 | But that doesn't happen in food necessarily. I mean, if you live in a big city you have plenty of |
| 0:54.0 | amazing restaurants if you live in servers less so but even when you have |
| 0:58.8 | access to amazing restaurants it's not so easy to have the best chefs from all the country for |
| 1:04.5 | example and every day in all sort of different cuisines and forms available to you |
| 1:08.7 | at your home. So Kugitt is trying to do what happens already for other categories for food by giving chefs |
| 1:16.7 | all the infrastructure and all the tools they need to expand the access and the scalability of their |
| 1:22.4 | creations, their best dishes. |
| 1:24.8 | And so exactly how does it work for consumers and for chefs? |
| 1:28.1 | You're a platform connecting the two, like many other platforms that we're familiar with whether it's Uber or even Spotify or Airbnb but how does it work in this case? |
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