285: Career Conversations: 'The humbling experience that led me to OLIO'

<div>"It was a very humbling experience, with many learnings that I still treasure."<br> <br> </div> <div>That's how Alberto Lo Bue, Managing Director at the food waste app, <a href="https://olioex.com/">OLIO</a>, describes an attempt earlier in his career to launch his own start-up.<br> <br> </div> <div>"It's not enough to do something just because you want to do it," he tells Elisa Roche in the latest episode of the Career Conversations podcast series. "You can do a much better job if you care deeply about the mission and the cause."<br> <br> </div> <div>Alberto's career has seen him work for some of the biggest players in the tech sector.<br> <br> </div> <div>He started life in southern Italy, but moved to the north of the country and eventually the UK to complete his studies.<br> <br> </div> <div>After doing a degree in management and economics, his first job was working with a start-up incubator in Berlin. He describes his role as helping new companies solve their biggest issues.<br> <br> </div> <div>Next up was <a href="https://www.foodpanda.com/">Foodpanda</a>, an online food and grocery delivery programme which is massive in Asia and many other parts of the world. "That was my 'in' into the food tech world," he says.<br> <br> </div> <div>After launching his own start-up, an app that found products in local independent stores, he landed a job at <a href="https://deliveroo.co.uk/">Deliveroo</a>, helping to launch its B2B function, '<a href="https://deliveroo.co.uk/for-work">Deliveroo for Work</a>'.<br> <br> </div> <div>Alberto says of his experience at Deliveroo: "I was very very lucky and privileged to see it grow to hundreds-of-millions in revenue, and thousands of clients."<br> <br> </div> <div>But the move to OLIO was where he found his true home.<br> <br> </div> <div>The app connects neighbours with each other and businesses with volunteers so that <a href="https://foodmatterslive.com/discover/article/spain-legislation-food-waste-supermarkets-restaurants/">surplus food</a> is given away inste