Instacart
9 statements across 4 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 10, 2017 by Apoorva Mehta · said 35 times in 13 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Guy Raz (15), Apoorva Mehta (12), Patrick and John Collison (1), Mark Ramadan (1), Larry Liu (1), Justin Gold (1), John Collison (1), Jasmine Crowe-Houston (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2018 2 mentions in 1 episode
2017 21 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Instacart, oldest first
Apr 10, 2017
Apr 10, 2017 negative
Mehta: Competing with Amazon required partnering with retailers rather than underpricing them
“I realized in order to sort of really compete with them, I would have to do something that's meaningfully different, and it couldn't be something that was just, it was like cheaper or anything like that, because Amazon has gobs and gobs of money, so it wasn't …”
Apr 10, 2017 positive
Mehta: Grocery delivery customers love receiving phone calls about out-of-stock substitutions
“Initially we tried with not calling the customers, and we said, hey, customers will probably find this pretty intrusive, but then we realized that, no, actually, customers love it when, you know, when our shoppers call the customers, because they feel so speci…”
Apr 10, 2017 positive
Mehta: Instacart got into Y Combinator after sending Garry Tan beer
“I opened the app, I ordered a six pack of beer, and I addressed it for the Y Combinator headquarters. And half an hour later, I get a call from Gary Tan, and he's like, what is this? And I was like, oh, this is Instacart. And I guess the beer must have been pr…”
Apr 10, 2017 neutral
Mehta: Early Instacart shoppers used gift cards to buy customer groceries
“In the early days of Instacart, one of the ways that shoppers would check out at the grocery store when they would, they had bought the groceries for someone else is by using gift cards. So, you know, you would have to trust them.”
Apr 10, 2017
Mehta: Instacart launched its first catalog by scraping Safeway.com
“The first version of the app, I found that there was this website called Safeway.com and there was just a grocery store and I saw that they had all their inventory available online. And so I just scraped it and I was like, great. I have all the items that I am…”
May 7, 2018 positive
Collison: Payments shifted from tactical decisions to strategic product advantages
“For internet businesses, payments is actually part of the strategy that matters. It's part of the product experience. And so basically, I think this used to be a fairly tactical vendor decision for the business, where it was just something that needs to be tak…”
Mar 9, 2020 bullish
John Collison: Payments has shifted from tactical vendor decision to product strategy
“For internet businesses, payments is actually part of the strategy that matters. It's part of the product experience. And so basically, I think this used to be a fairly tactical vendor decision for the business, where it was just something that needs to be tak…”