Mateo Marietti (CookUnity) - How he’s changing the food delivery experience for daily meals, how he works with the top chefs in the world, and growth during the pandemic

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Our guest today is Mateo Marietti, founder and CEO of CookUnity. CookUnity is reinventing the food delivery experience and making it easy for busy people to eat well at home by curating a marketplace of great chefs and unique crafters. We discuss how he founded Cooking Unity, how he developed relationships with some of the top chefs in the world, how he addressed the cold start problem, the response to the pandemic, when they will hit profitability and much more.

Some of the questions I ask:

1. What got you into cooking?
2. Why did you start CookUnity?
3. Employed the cooks, delivery
4. 1,000 employees
5. Traditional
6. Fine dining
7. Everything is vertically integrated
8. The chef cooking for others, but not the most attractive option
9. Best chefs cook everyday
10. How did you attract the best chefs in the world?
11. How do you manage the supply side? Kitchen space, finding chefs, quality control, etc.?
12. How did you start?
13. Pandemic
14. Why do people want a meal from a private chef instead of a meal kit company?
15. How do you add more chefs? What’s the chef profile?
16. What’s the business model?
17. What was it like raising capital? What was the response from investors?
18. Cooking class
19. Books –
20. Danny Meyer – Setting the Table
21. Patagonia – Let My People Go Surfing

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