CEO & Co-Founder, Delivery Hero
Search every verified Niklas Östberg interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a documentary marking Delivery Hero’s 15th anniversary, Niklas Östberg reflected on the company’s history, describing his initial encounter with food delivery in 2007 as “love at first sight” and recounting the evolution from a local startup to a global operation. He discussed the early challenges, including rapid growth and operational complexities, and highlighted the development of quick-commerce services, noting that an order arriving in eight minutes was a “game-changer.” Östberg also mentioned the company’s recent partnership with Uber, calling it “the largest deal in our industry by far,” and reiterated the goal of building an “everyday app” to serve customers across multiple markets. Östberg also commented on the competitive landscape, stating that Delivery Hero faced “500 600 different competitors” over the years, with only “maybe 10 or a handful” remaining today. He described the environment as “extraordinary competitive” and noted that the company continues to monitor rivals’ restaurant sign-ups and other metrics. The documentary, released to mark the anniversary, emphasized the role of the global team in reaching this milestone and pointed to open roles on the company’s careers site.
To mark our 15-year anniversary, we created a documentary to tell our story, from the early startup days and hyper-growth phase, through to M&As, IPO’s, and building systems millions rely on every day. Behind every milestone is a global team working together to tackle challenges and make big things happen. Ready to build what’s next with us? Check out our open roles on our careers site: https://bit.ly/4xI4aQ1 #deliveryhero #DH15
David Rowan's fireside chat with Niklas Ostberg of Delivery Hero, at GITEX in Dubai, October 2025.
Scaling Beyond Food to Super Apps Speaker: Niklas Östberg, CEO, Delivery Hero, Germany Moderator: David Rowan, Founding Editor-in-Chief, WIRED, UK Next Year, All New TechCation with GITEX 5.0 and Expand North Star, 8-10 December 2026, Dubai, UAE Pre-register your interest on https://expandnorthstar.com/
Niklas Östberg is the Founder and CEO of Delivery Hero, a global juggernaut now present in over 70 countries across four continents. In Q4 2024, the company announced GMV of $49BN with $12.8BN in revenue and $750M in EBITDA. They have made an astonishing 35+ acquisitions including $2BN for Glovo. Before launching Delivery Hero, Niklas co-founded Pizza.nu, leading its expansion across Sweden, Poland, Finland, and Austria. ---------------------------------------------- In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How Skiing Prepared Me For Life As An Entrepreneur Losing $200M on Gorillas Investment Quick Co…
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Niklas Östberg discusses the company's second-quarter earnings.
In May 2021, Delivery Hero celebrated its 10th anniversary. Niklas Östberg, CEO and Co-Founder of Delivery Hero, took us on a walk through the early days of the company and the challenges that he and his global leadership team faced on the ambitious journey to build the world’s leading local delivery platform. Niklas was joined by Jakob Angele, CEO of foodpanda APAC and Sofia Tavares, SVP of Brand, who were early supporters and became good friends on the way to today’s success. FIND US ON: LinkedIn: / deli. . Instagram: / deliveryhero Twitter: / deliveryherocom Facebook: / del…
Niklas Östberg was keynote speaker at Platform Leaders on 15th April 2021. Niklas Östberg is the Co-Founder & CEO of Delivery ...
“Yeah, we have had a lot of competition over the years. I think there's been 500 600 different competitors over over the last 15 years. Every week there was a new competitor with new funding and today out of the 500 competitors, there are only maybe 10 or a handful left. Uh it it's been extraordinary competitive and every day we were looking at how many restaurants did they sign up? How many restaurants did we sign up”
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