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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Instacart comes up
Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 58:01 Max Levchin Grocery shopping is 100% agentic, like, for anyone who uses Instacart. 2 times in the scene
Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George
- ▶ 5:35 David George And then famously, part of the beauty of Stripe's growth and business model is that you captured companies like DoorDash and Instacart when they were NYC.
Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
- ▶ 34:44 Jessie Genet Um, and so, like, if I, if I, what I really want to be doing in that moment is, like, playing with my baby, and what I'm actually doing is, like, on the Instacart app, like, trying to put, like, no, not five bananas, four bananas, you… 2 times in the scene
AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
- ▶ 46:44 David George The customers of our portfolio companies to be the modern thinking ones, you know, the door dashes of the world, um, you know, the Instacarts of the world, the Ubers of the world, then the very, very old school stodgy companies.
Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- ▶ 4:55 Steph Smith And we're seeing founders from Instacart, Spotify, and Coinbase.
Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services
- ▶ 13:42 George Sivulka Uh, products like Instacart might still be the best way to deliver groceries, right?
Zach Perret (Plaid) & Simon Khalaf (Marqeta): New Applications in Fintech
- ▶ 20:08 Simon Khalaf How many are holding an Instacart badge or a DoorDash?
Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
- ▶ 16:02 Jason Gardner Instacart and DoorDash are still our customers today.
- ▶ 19:59 Jason Gardner And said, you know, I'm Instacart. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:54 Jason Gardner Like we saw, you know, Instacart and Uber Eats and Postmates and, uh, DoorDash, you know, just their businesses were scaling so fast.
How to Understand and Choose a Venture Investor
- ▶ 9:23 Scott Cooper You have to find a Facebook or a Google or a Twitter or an Instacart or Airbnb where you can earn 10, 20, 5000 times your money.
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 11:49 Jeff Jordan One of the key things that was compelling about Instacart to us is that they have a revenue stream from the consumer, revenue stream from the grocery retail partner, and a revenue stream from CBG companies who are interested in accessing… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:11 Jeff Jordan Then we made the Instacart investment in the belief that the grocery stores are there.
- ▶ 30:20 Ryan Caldbeck I want to go on Instacart and I only want to see one chocolate bar. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 14:46 Chris Dixon All the, all the ideas that happened at web vans, Instacart, like they all, all of them.
a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
- ▶ 0:53 Alex Rampell Like, that was the answer, and it was remarkably prescient, because if you think about how Stripe has succeeded into this new generation of companies, like Lyft, like Instacart, pretty much any company that's starting today is almost de…
- ▶ 2:17 John Collison And so there's almost a bit of a contest where, you know, Instacart could have been started by an existing grocery chain. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR
- ▶ 9:06 Margit Wennmachers Instacart did a really great job of getting the local stores and then getting Whole Foods and whatnot, and that is important to their business because they have to have the supply of the local stores that people enjoy shopping at, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Drones for Delivery in Healthcare
- ▶ 12:45 Keller Rinaudo You know, Instacart, DoorDash, all these companies that are doing it for food.
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 27:36 Jeff Jordan Instacart's hack was, uh, you can order from any grocery, and they'll go get it to you.
- ▶ 37:44 Jeff Jordan I mean, Instacart is going faster, offer ups going faster, just
a16z Podcast | Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
- ▶ 5:41 Jeff Jordan So eBay, PayPal, OpenTable as an operator, and now Airbnb, Pinterest, and Instacart as an investor.
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 31:27 Anu Hariharan If you look at grocery, it's like, oh, it should be like Instacart, right?
a16z Podcast | How Big Companies Can Get the Most From Silicon Valley
- ▶ 9:20 Elizabeth Weil I put it in my cart on, on Instacart because I know about it, but how do they make that correlation?
- ▶ 10:11 Elizabeth Weil Uh, on the consumer side, one partnership that we saw, saw take off was with Instacart and a CPG company. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Marketplace Rules
- ▶ 4:34 Anu Hariharan So even if you take the example of grocery, Instacart, you know, People Marketplace is one component, but if you look at the broader aspect, they are partnering with grocery chains, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Ecommerce and the Holiday Shopping Collision
- ▶ 10:40 Jeff Jordan With Instacart, we hope one of them goes online very quickly.
a16z Podcast | People Marketplaces Take On One of the Last Great E-Commerce Opportunities: Groceries
- ▶ 1:02 Jeff Jordan Homejoy, Instacart, uh, any place that, um, that, you know, people are performing a service that, uh, can be done, uh, can be, can be rented essentially with labor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:56 Sam Gerstenzhang I think there's sort of this red herring in that we think of it, these services are enabled because we have smartphones, but the, the, the interesting part is that each of these drivers on DoorDash or Instacart or elsewhere, they bought a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:18 Michael Copeland Well, you mentioned Instacart. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:53 Michael Copeland And why then do the bricks and mortar supermarket chains and or supermarkets, individual ones, why do they want to play along with Instacart? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:18 Michael Copeland What, what, so in the Instacart model, and, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:28 Jeff Jordan Um, I mean, right now the, the company's focused on groceries. 2 times in the scene
What's Next in Consumer Startups?
- ▶ 13:22 Andrew Chen And the modern example of this, of course, is, uh, is one of our portfolio companies, Instacart, where 6 times in the scene
AI: What's Working, What's Not
- ▶ 8:32 Frank Chen Instacart uses prediction techniques to help get shoppers through the grocery store faster.
- ▶ 23:28 Frank Chen It's Instacart saying, go down aisle three, you need something from that right now.
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)
- ▶ 1:16 Benedict Evans On smartphones we talk about ride sharing and Instagram, Instagram and Instacart and deliveries.
- ▶ 9:02 Benedict Evans In this case, this is the graphic from Instacart, so these are different grocery types.
The Promise of AI
- ▶ 36:38 Frank Chen Our friends at Instacart applied the exact same technique trying to minimize the amount of time it would take for a grocery shopper and driver to get your groceries to your house.
How 'Going Direct' Changes Everything: for Brands, Retail, Marketing, and Advertising
- ▶ 11:45 unnamed speaker So this is one of our investments, Instacart. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:46 unnamed speaker We think some interesting companies are going to be built out of this, and we're incredibly enthusiastic about the potential for Pinterest, Instacart, and Tilt, given that they're all working on enabling this future trend.
Marketplaces
- ▶ 0:16 Jeff Jordan I'm an investor in Airbnb, OfferUp, and Instacart.
- ▶ 12:21 Jeff Jordan Instacart is a marketplace where you can get groceries delivered from a number of local merchants, and, ah, you have List, you know, providing lots of sellers with the opportunity to meet demand in there.
- ▶ 17:52 Jeff Jordan Uber, Lyft, Instacart would be impossible if the provider side didn't have, you know, didn't have that, that supercomputer in their pocket to tell them exactly where to do, what to do, to tell the company exactly where they are. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:59 Jeff Jordan OfferUp and Instacart we talked about.