Khaled Helioui’s Post

I’m proud to welcome today as our newest equal Partner & owner in Plural one of the most iconic operators of our generation: Uber veteran Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty. At Plural, our mission is to have GDP-level impact on Europe and support the emergence of the world’s next €100bn companies. A big part of that stack is having partners who have already been part of that kind of scaling journey and bring deep scar tissue from creating and overhauling massive industries. Those who can share what they’ve learnt with our founders and challenge their perception and understanding of what great looks like at different stages of company building. When we embarked on the journey of building Plural four years ago, the first person who came to mind for me when thinking about how we could build out the strongest partnership possible to deliver that mission was Pierre. Hired by Travis and Ryan as Uber’s GM in France in 2012, Pierre became one of its core operational leaders over a 13-year tenure, going to central roles like leading Uber’s mobility business outside of the U.S. and eventually Uber Eats globally. His leadership and execution helped take the company from a $330m valuation then, to its $200bn+ market cap today. He had one of the fastest and most impressive progressions within Uber where he initially scaled the company’s ride sharing business across EMEA to $9bn GMV before moving on to oversee Uber's international markets. When Uber Eats was most challenged by investors in its ability to gain genuine market leadership and ever turn profitable, Dara turned to Pierre to take on the challenge. A few weeks later Covid hit making that mission existential for the company. Under Pierre’s leadership Uber’s delivery business grew 5x to $90bn GMV, getting close to parity to Uber’s core business today, while reaching profitability and delivering over $3.5bn in annual EBITDA. There are very few people in the world with that kind of scar tissue, and even fewer in Europe. Scaling not only one but two very different business lines to tens of billions of dollars of GMV takes rare talent, grit and resilience and Pierre quickly became one of Uber’s reference operators. These kinds of skills, the operational “how” of scaling a huge business, are in high demand in Europe, as it is going through a unique transformation of its entrepreneurial aspirations and ambitions. The honest truth is that these aspirations and ambitions will only matter to the extent that execution follows at par with the best-in-class standards expected in Silicon Valley and China. From today onwards, all Plural founders will be able to spar with one of the best builders of our generation, pushing them to execute at the level of their ambition. Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/e_aNKWyM