Georgia Stevenson

Georgia focuses on creator, consumer and marketplace orientated businesses at Index.

She is particularly fascinated by AI infrastructure and applications that drive new behaviours, as well as understanding what changes as a result of technological cycles, what stays the same, and how community is built in this new era.

She started her career in the early days of Deliveroo, doing door-to-door sales to restaurants and launching the business in new markets.Georgia graduated from St John’s College, Cambridge with a degree in History.

What did you do at Deliveroo?

Georgia — I joined to launch the business across different towns and cities outside London. This involved lots of door-to-door sales in the rain (when restaurants are at their emptiest), performing after-hours sales pitches (when restaurants are prepared to listen to you) and making friends with all the waiting staff (when owners arrive, they'd give you a heads up). It was a very formative experience and a real lesson in the importance of execution, resilience, and the exhilaration of closing a sale.

What do you focus on at Index?

Georgia — I focus predominantly on UK & New York based businesses, with a particular skew towards marketplaces, retail infrastructure, future of work and consumer.

Name your proudest achievement.

Georgia — Coming second in Southern GB Under 9s Chess Championships and winning a full set Belgian chocolate chess board. It's really all been downhill since then.