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Sep 2022
40m 23s

HIBT Lab! Wonder: Marc Lore

Guy Raz | Wondery
About this episode

Picture this: you just wrapped a long day of work and you are starving! You open a delivery app and place an order from your favorite restaurant. About an hour later, you get a notification that your meal has arrived. You’re practically salivating as you tear open the bag, and then...a rude awakening — your dinner became cold and soggy in transit. 

This frustrating and all-too-common experience is exactly what Marc Lore is trying to solve with his latest venture, Wonder.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Marc returns to the show to share how Wonder, recently valued at $3.5 billion, has the potential to disrupt the entire food delivery and home dining industry. Plus, Marc offers advice on how to approach big challenges and discusses several other business ideas he’s been cooking up since leaving Walmart last year.

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