Zalando founder Robert Gentz: The Alibaba lesson & why AI is changing everything in fashion now
We've been waiting ten years for this episode: Robert Gentz speaks more openly than ever before in the OMR Podcast about building Zalando. He explains why he and co-founder David Schneider initially failed with a social network in South America – and then launched Zalando in the midst of the financial crisis with just €50,000. What's it like when a startup grows so fast that there are long lines of new employees outside the office every morning, all eager to set up their own desks? And what problems almost derailed Zalando's success story? In conversation with Philipp Westermeyer, Robert G…
