300% growth in Q1 of this year - Interview with Devan Hughes, founder and CEO of the grocery delivery platform Buymie
Summary
Previously featured as one of our 10 online supermarkets zooming through 2020 list, the Buymie brings any grocery or household item to their user’s house, offering a same-day delivery promise. Fresh from the announcement of a further €5.8 million funding round, we sat down with Buymie founder Devan Hughes to discuss further expansion plans, incorporating sustainability into the business, and how the online supermarket boom can continue post-coronavirus. My experiences in gas and electricity – where distribution was managed through shared infrastructures – was completely different to the way the grocery retail business worked, and this gave me the idea for Buymie. Whilst in many ways large corporations are essentially “immortal” where timelines are concerned, startups are dealing with cash runaways and milestones that do not allow a high degree of flexibility. Ireland is also a great test market for the UK given the cultures and outlooks are so similar, which was a major factor for our launch in the Bristol area in June.