Investigations

August 2, 2021

Gorillas: The new WeWork?

What does the future hold for on-demand grocery startup Gorillas?


Gorillas

When Laura* joined the on-demand grocery delivery startup Gorillas in 2019, it had less than 20 employees. The Berlin startup was full of the “young, energetic” type from good universities who would work long hours, she says. Like Gorillas’ early investors, they were excited about the prospect of entirely reshaping how people buy food, putting supermarkets out of business for good and building what Gorillas has since told investors is “one of the fastest-growing companies of all time.”

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Kağan Sümer, founder and CEO of Gorillas.
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Two members of Gorillas Workers Collective hold a banner with a list of demands at a protest in Prenzlauer Berg.
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Members of the Gorillas Workers' Collective blockade the entrance to a warehouse, in solidarity with their fired colleague, Santi.
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Some employees told Sifted that working at Gorillas is like being part of a community.
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