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The economics and trends of the restaurant industry, with Tony Xu of DoorDash
- ▶ 0:07 John Collison Tony Hsu is the co-founder and CEO of on-demand delivery giant DoorDash. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:25 John Collison As I think back to that era where you guys got started, what year was DoorDash founded? 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:49 Tony Xu But again, I, I, I really just, you know, look at the early DoorDash crew and what were the things that we did that were very, you know, useful. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:07 John Collison One of the investors I know who has consistently had the most steadfast belief about DoorDash is Michael Abramson, you know, who was at Sequoia back in the day. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:51 Tony Xu And so those are the kinds of, you know, things that I think hopefully we DoorDash can help and actually solve. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:41 John Collison The core challenge for marketplaces like DoorDash is streamlining courier operations, like letting their network of couriers and shoppers make specific purchases for customers.
- ▶ 32:16 Tony Xu It just turns out it's extraordinarily difficult, however, unless you're a large brand, or, you know, um, you know, a, a house of brands, someone like DoorDash,
- ▶ 36:01 Tony Xu There's a lot that goes behind the scenes, just like there's a lot that goes behind the scenes at DoorDash in terms of getting you, you know, one order on time to make that sentence true.
- ▶ 41:21 Tony Xu Ok, well, did you know that there are over a thousand different pizza choices in, you know, the Bay Area on DoorDash? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:19 John Collison There's sidewalk robot delivery, and you guys have DOT. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:47 Tony Xu You know, so today, yes, DoorDash is probably most known for food, potentially, you know, now increasingly groceries and household items, but that is a fraction of the tens of millions of items inside every single city. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:12 John Collison We're talking a lot about some of these scale tech, uh, problems, and one of the ones that people might not think about is fraud, but I feel like, you know, Stripe and DoorDash obviously work together in many ways, but one of the things we… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:39 Tony Xu Where, um, actually, you know, it started with a project where we're trying to solve our own problems, so it started with trying to figure out where is every item, you know, inside the city, and so we have, um, millions of dashers, um,… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:53 John Collison As I just kind of think through AI applications for DoorDash, one thing I'm struck by is that the LLMs are pretty good recommenders just by tossing things into context. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:32 Tony Xu You know, I mean, DoorDash's goal is not just to grow your business by sending you customers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:37 Tony Xu We also want you to learn how to do it on your own, and that's why, you know, we have products like DoorDash Drive, or Storefront, or Seven Rooms, um, which are really B to B products, which is probably why consumers don't think of us for…
- ▶ 1:08:42 John Collison In what ways are the Deliveroo and DoorDash businesses different?
- ▶ 1:12:11 John Collison I think of Stripe and DoorDash as almost having grown up together, you know, founded at very similar times.
- ▶ 1:20:40 John Collison I think maybe DoorDash is not where I would start. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:08 Tony Xu Yeah, it, it, it's been, I, I think one of the coolest part, and, you know, greatest privileges, frankly, that I have at DoorDash is, you know, because we get to interface with all the businesses, you know, of all these different wonderful…
The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
- ▶ 21:38 John Collison You know, Tony Xu is talking about, um, how he still works as a door dasher, you know, to stay very connected to that experience.
Creating prediction markets (and suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara
- ▶ 1:00:59 Tarek Mansour Like maybe people wouldn't have sold off DoorDash. 2 times in the scene
Stripe’s 2025 annual letter
- ▶ 17:54 John Collison DoorDash, a partner in this trial, has seen a meaningful increase in conversion versus their previous fraud checks while reducing chargeback rates.
A Cheeky Pint with Cognition CEO Scott Wu
- ▶ 32:20 Scott Wu Devon is obviously entirely focused towards software engineering, but like we order our DoorDash on Devon, you know, we order our Amazon packages with Devon, and it's like, there are pieces of that that turn out to work nicely anyway. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:17 Patrick Collison Devin will order your DoorDash for you.