Interview with Victor Lugger, co-founder & CEO of Big Mamma Group and Sunday App

Victor Lugger is the co-founder and CEO of Big Mamma Group and Sunday App. Being at the head of 26 very popular Italian restaurants across Europe, including La Felicità on our campus, Victor is embarking on a new FinTech adventure with his Big Mamma co-founder, Tigrane Seydoux, and their new partner, Christine de Wendel, to reinvent the way that people pay in restaurants. The trio recently announced a $24 million seed round for their new company Sunday App.

In this episode, we catch up with Victor to learn more about what it means to have raised the largest seed round in Europe this year and how Big Mamma Group keeps launching restaurants that people cannot stop raving about. We'll talk about building company culture, scaling logistics, innovations in the restaurant space, and a lot more!

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Topics

00:22 — Introduction with Roxanne Varza and Cindy Yang

01:53 — Victor Lugger on raising the biggest seed round in Europe

02:17 — The origin story of Big Mamma Group

05:47 — The importance of company culture for Big Mamma's success

16:12 — On choosing a co-founder

19:44 — The beginnings of Sunday app

23:00 — How Sunday works

24:53 — Sunday's technology 🌍

26:17 — Innovations in the restaurant space

27:26 — On being a BCorp company

28:48 — Scaling & logistics at Big Mamma Group 💡

31:03 — The importance of pursuing ideas that are not easy

32:35 — Victor's favourite Big Mamma restaurant 😉

This episode is hosted and produced by Cindy Yang. Art is by Gaëtan Lefebvre.