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Just Eat Takeaway.com N.V.

JET position long Alex Captain, Cat Rock Capital

Thesis

JET is a high-quality online food delivery business with strong network effects, recurring revenue, and pricing power. The company is expected to grow significantly due to low penetration rates in the online food delivery market and has proven profitability in various international markets.

Did it work?

failed confidence: high

The long thesis rested on JET being a high-quality, profitable growth compounder with network effects and pricing power, but the stock declined 93.8% since the pitch — a catastrophic loss that decisively invalidates the quality and growth narrative regardless of the stated horizon. A drawdown of this magnitude reflects fundamental impairment of the thesis (competition, unproven profitability at scale), not interim noise. The pitch clearly failed.