For Will Shu, food delivery is personal.
“I have decided that now is the right time for me to step down,” Shu said in a statement to Fortune. “Taking Deliveroo from being an idea to what it is today has been amazing.”
“As part of that, you also have to step outside your comfort zone and take risks. You will learn from the successes and failures and hone your ability to improvise on the fly, which is one of the most important qualities in any entrepreneur.”
While Shu wasn’t someone who always had entrepreneurial dreams, his commitment to his idea was evident from the start. In the early years, he would personally hop on a bike and do deliveries himself to understand the company from the eyes of a driver.
Even though the company just had eight employees, a few thousand employees, and a not-so-great website, it was Shu’s level of commitment that impressed Martin Mignot, Deliveroo’s first investor
Mignot’s early spot of the company helped turn him into a multimillionaire by the age of 30. And for Gen Z looking to follow in his footsteps and find the next Shu and Deliveroo, his advice is simple: research the top 20 VC firms and make a list of their recent investments.
“We live in an incredible time where everything is getting more accessible,” Mignot said. “Don’t limit yourself to a single geography, think global, do your due diligence and just go along for a ride.”
