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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:

* Why this product needed to exist

* How he developed relationships with some of the top chefs in the world

* Addressing the cold-start problem of a marketplace business

* How he thinks about affordability

* What parts in the supply CookUnity needs to own

* Response from the pandemic

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