In October 2025, DoorDash dropped $3.9 billion for Deliveroo. In one move, they jumped from 30 to 40 countries across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

The logic is compelling: combine DoorDash's technology and deep capital reserves with Deliveroo's localized restaurant relationships and rider networks, and replicate in nine untapped countries the playbook that secured their US dominance by building strong local order density.

But there is a catch.

DoorDash built its US monopoly in fragmented suburban markets with gig-friendly labor laws. European markets are fundamentally different. Countries like the UK and France are dominated by multi-homing consumers and hostile regulatory regimes that threaten to break the underlying unit economics of the rider network.

In this episode of Glenshore Perspectives, we examine if DoorDa ...