DoorDash, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where DoorDash comes up
Scaling DoorDash to market dominance | Christopher Payne (Former COO, DoorDash)
- ▶ 0:15 Christopher Payne I was wondering when I joined DoorDash, which of my experiences were going to be most relevant to DoorDash. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:15 Christopher Payne Tony, the founder of DoorDash, about how do you know during the interview process?
- ▶ 4:53 Christopher Payne Like one of the first things I did at DoorDash, cause I had a lot of experience with this is I, I, even though DoorDash was very young, I founded the first new S curve at DoorDash, which was 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:29 Christopher Payne It's DoorDash Drive, our platform business.
- ▶ 8:26 Christopher Payne Recreate the order as a dasher, and then go around the store to figure out why I didn't get the ciabatta bread. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:48 Christopher Payne So that I can't do that in every, so one of the things I tend to do is like, you know, let's say I'm running a complicated business like DoorDash, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:30 Christopher Payne So it's like, let's take the, the DoorDash example, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:09 Christopher Payne And so it's easy to talk about the door dash experience. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:49 Christopher Payne And I realized at DoorDash, this was late. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:43 Christopher Payne Um, so a little bit of both, like, I don't, I, and the truth is like, I pick from like a, you know, when I'm now running a, you know, company or, or division of DoorDash or whatever,
- ▶ 34:12 Christopher Payne I was talking to somebody about, you know, a reporter or whatever about DoorDash and the stock has been down a bunch or something like this a few years ago.
- ▶ 40:03 Christopher Payne Being in a company that's growing like a DoorDash or an Amazon circa that period of time forces you to get good at that because you're going to fail, right?
- ▶ 40:56 Christopher Payne You're, you're not gonna, so I'll give you an example at DoorDash. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:01 Christopher Payne And so you, you want the top level goals to galvanize as much of the company, like, you know, DoorDash has got DashPass our subscription model, right?
- ▶ 55:16 Christopher Payne And you're like, you know, there were, there were periods where DoorDash was running out of money and couldn't raise money in 17, and, and, you know, people were like,
- ▶ 1:02:15 Christopher Payne So it's like somebody built this tool at DoorDash that was just like unbelievable. 4 times in the scene
Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
- ▶ 16:46 Adam Guild We lose 30% of every order to delivery platforms like DoorDash and Uber Eats.
- ▶ 25:29 Adam Guild It's still not DoorDash or Uber Eats.
- ▶ 43:26 Brett Berson And it was still fulfilled through Uber and DoorDash, or how did the food actually get to people?
Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 1:06:54 Kevin Busque Like, or it should have been DoorDash.
How to build and scale winning marketplaces | Casey Winters (Eventbrite, Pinterest, Grubhub)
- ▶ 16:42 Casey Winters I mean, Tony at DoorDash was delivering the meals himself. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:31 Brett Berson One is you gave this really interesting sort of anecdote when you were leaving Grubhub, and I think you said DoorDash was coming up at the time, and or maybe Uber Eats or something else. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:21 Casey Winters So then they did that and that worked and then they just, they canceled all the rest of it and focused on the food delivery part, but that made them a little bit less fragile to the pandemic because while, you know, rides shrank during the…
- ▶ 35:23 Casey Winters You know, DoorDash was way more expensive than Grubhub because they were upcharging a bunch of fees and the menu item prices were higher.
- ▶ 42:33 Casey Winters On what makes something look more like an eBay versus what makes something look more like a Grubhub or DoorDash, where it's going to be really focused on one thing. 4 times in the scene
Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, and fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO at Zapier)
- ▶ 42:54 Wade Foster I heard a story once that like, uh, Tony from DoorDash does a, when he hires executives, he gives them 10 bucks and says, hey, you got to go get me, you know, a thousand customers as a way to sort of test and screen for this, like their…
AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
- ▶ 19:06 Dan Siroker It would be great if we had an analog of this is X for Y, this is DoorDash for cats or whatever, you know, something that people could understand.