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Getir

Getir ( ; "bring" in Turkish) is a Turkish company that offers rapid on-demand delivery services for grocery items and a courier service for restaurant food deliveries, accessed via a mobile app. Until 2024, it was active in multiple countries. Originally founded in 2015, by early 2022, Getir announced that it had raised US$768 million in its Series E, valuing the company at nearly $12 billion, but a further funding round in mid-2023 valued the company at a quarter of that figure. From 2023, Getir began to withdraw from some of its foreign markets, and in April 2024, the company announced it was leaving all countries except Turkey. All foreign operations ended in May 2024.

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Getir ( ; "bring" in Turkish) is a Turkish company that offers rapid on-demand delivery services for grocery items and a courier service for restaurant food deliveries, accessed via a mobile app. Until 2024, it was active in multiple countries. Originally founded in 2015, by early 2022, Getir announced that it had raised US$768 million in its Series E, valuing the company at nearly $12 billion, but a further funding round in mid-2023 valued the company at a quarter of that figure. From 2023, Getir began to withdraw from some of its foreign markets, and in April 2024, the company announced it was leaving all countries except Turkey. All foreign operations ended in May 2024.

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  1. date of foundation: 2015 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "2015". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361560202

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