Jitse Groen

Jitse Groen (Delft, 2 June 1978) is a Dutch billionaire businessman and the founder of Takeaway.com. He is the current chief executive of Takeaway.com, and, since 2020, he is also the chief executive of Just Eat following its merger with Takeaway.com.
Early life.
Groen was born in Delft in 1978 and raised in the villages Kolhorn and 't Veld. His mother worked as a teacher and his father was an automation engineer.
Career.
Groen founded Takeaway.com (originally known as Thuisbezorgd.nl) in 2000, at the age of 21, while he was a student at the University of Twente. He came up with the idea for his business after being unable to get a takeaway delivery in North Holland for a birthday celebration with his family. The nearest options for takeaway delivery were in Amsterdam, which was about away. Thuisbezorgd.nl started in the Netherlands, and in 2012, Groen raised €13 million to expand it as Takeaway.com to other countries. Groen took Takeaway.com public on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange in 2016, in order to fund expansion of Takeaway.com in Germany and other European countries.
In 2018, Groen took over Takeaway.com's main competitors in Germany from Delivery Hero. When Takeaway.com merged with British company Just Eat in 2020, Groen became chief executive of the merged organisation. Groen also owns 11.3% of the merged business; he previously owned 35% of Takeaway.com. In 2017, "Quote" magazine listed Groen as the Netherlands' richest self-made millionaire under 40. In 2018, he became a billionaire, as the interest on his Takeaway.com shares was over 1 billion euros. In 2021, Groen announced that all Just Eat workers would be entitled to minimum pay, sick pay and paid holiday, rather than being classed as gig workers.
In 2021 Groen came back at Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who criticized Groen for focusing his attention on his company's share price, by writing: "Start paying taxes, minimum wage and social security premiums before giving a founder advice on how he should run his business."
Personal life.
Groen has a bachelor's degree in Business Information Technology from the University of Twente. Groen lives in the Netherlands. In 2017, he bought a 9 bedroom house in Noordwijk that had had a guide price of €10.25 million. His hobby is flying and he has a pilot licence. Few details about Groen's personal life are publicly known.