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Zesty (YC W14) Raises $17M Series A to Improve the Health of Humanity

78 点作者 hol将近 10 年前

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chralieboy将近 10 年前
According to the press release, they describe themselves as &quot;San Francisco’s leading office catering service.&quot;<p>Unless they plan on dramatically expanding their product offerings, &quot;Improve[ing] the Health of Humanity&quot; sounds like disingenuous marketing-speak.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, catering is important and meals are a great way to bring employees together. Having used Zesty, the meals are from local restaurants and, though there are healthy options, there&#x27;s lots of greasy options available.
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thedogeye将近 10 年前
We serve Zesty everyday at Flexport and I consider it to be one of our best investments.<p>1&#x2F; The team enjoys having high quality, healthy food served right here in our kitchen, they barely have to move to eat.<p>2&#x2F; People end up talking about work stuff during lunch most of the time<p>3&#x2F; When they are not talking about lunch, they&#x27;re still hanging out with co-workers, which is good for our culture.<p>4&#x2F; Our team takes shorter lunch breaks than they did when they went out to eat, which means we are getting more hours of productivity from everybody.<p>5&#x2F; Hosting meals daily makes it easy to invite folks in for lunch, so it helps with doing external meetings as well--if you are interested in working at Flexport, come have lunch with us anytime :)<p>6&#x2F; It&#x27;s pretty affordable, b&#x2F;c we&#x27;re getting economies of scale by everybody purchasing together, so for the extra hours of work and bonding, we get an insanely good deal.<p>I love Zesty and hope they can scale the business and make it very profitable because it is one of those companies whose value proposition for its customers is a no-brainer.
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purpleturtle将近 10 年前
&gt; &quot;We have quickly become the market leader in San Francisco.&quot;<p>This is an odd statement since I know there are at least two direct competitors who are far larger.
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naveenspark将近 10 年前
David and Chris are extraordinary entrepreneurs. I learned a lot watching them build Zesty week over week during YC W14. This is a hard business to build. Providing consistent service in terms of restaurant relations, food quality, and delivery is non trivial. Zesty is the best at it. All of thedogeye&#x27;s points about the value of serving high quality meals to your team are spot on. Congrats David, Chris and the Zesty crew!
petenixey将近 10 年前
Super impressed to see how far David and the team have come. I remember talking with him down the road from my flat three years ago about the inkling that Zesty was then. I remember when Chris first joined him and they showed me the first screenshots of the mobile app in a bar in London before they hotfooted it off to San Francisco and now they&#x27;re raising $17,000,000. A pretty amazing ride. Congrats guys.
jaksmit将近 10 年前
Especially in this climate, there are lots of startups fundraising all the time (indeed a few other startups announced their fundraising today), and I can imagine that from the outside it may often look easy to raise large sums of money. I can say without doubt first hand that this fundraise for Zesty is the result of just immense hardwork and relentless hustle from David and his team.<p>I have huge respect for 1) the aggressive growth and customer development; 2) the operational roll out (which, given each customer has Zesty workers onsite to set out the food, is a huge operational nightmare); 3) being humble enough to deviate and pivot the initial idea from a mobile app to a much more operations heavy b2b play
garagemc2将近 10 年前
Nice good job.<p>David, if you don&#x27;t mind answering, what made you decide to call it a day at groupspaces? Was there a certain event or circumstance that made you think &quot;okay lets work on something else now&quot;.
2muchmr2将近 10 年前
This is extraordinary! The Zesty team has moved light years in months. Can&#x27;t believe how much David and Chris have grown in their abilities. I raise a green drink to toast your success.
sanford将近 10 年前
Way to go Zesty!
backenddev12345将近 10 年前
I applied to one of your engineering positions and never heard back.<p>Are they available?<p>Open to remote?
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