In this episode of How To Build The Future, Garry sits down with Tony Xu, Co-founder and CEO of DoorDash, to discuss their origin story, how the company survived several near death experiences, and what it takes to transform an entire industry.
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Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) –
00:00 – Intro
02:45 – How they landed on the idea of DoorDash
05:16 – Doing things that don’t scale
07:08 – Figuring out what matters in the early days
09:01 – Answering the biggest questions about demand
10:30 – Demographics of the Dashers
12:03 – DoorDash almost goes out of business (the first time)
14:00 – DoorDash almost dies a second time
16:00 – All you need is one investor to say yes
17:00 – Price war
21:34 – Scaling up
24:32 – The ups and downs of the COVID era
28:00 – Long-term vision
30:00 – Advice for founders today
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