Yes, I'm a freelance Uber Eats driver. People always think it's a joke. It's not.

When I started training for the Olympics, I quickly realized that being an athlete costs a lot of money, trainers, gear, gym fees, travel. As someone who runs his own business, I kept thinking it would be great if someone just paid me for my workouts. Then it hit me: delivering food on a bike is basically getting paid to exercise.

I signed up, got through the paperwork, and started riding around Zurich with a backpack full of someone else's dinner. I make about CHF 7–8 per trip, around 3 trips an hour. That's roughly CHF 21–24 per hour, for cycling through the city. Not bad.

Of course, I probably spend too much on coffee breaks between deliveries. So the net income is debatable.

The two things I've learned from Uber Eats are both about perception. I once delivered to an agency we had worked with in the past. As a client, I was important. As an Uber Eats driver, they didn't even recognize me. Same person, different backpack. It's a useful reminder that how people treat you often has nothing to do with who you are and everything to do with the context they see you in.

The other thing: there's something genuinely freeing about doing simple, physical. No emails or calls. Just you, a bike, and an address. I'd recommend it to any founder who's overthinking everything, which is all of them.

PS: I didn’t qualify for the Olympics, but I still drive whenever the weather's good. It's warm, it's not raining, it's Uber Eats season.