DoorDash, every mention
14 scenes (2025) · ← back to DoorDash
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2025 anyone Alfred Lin 23Sarah Tavel 8Shane Parrish 7Jason Calacanis 2Garry Tan 2Benedict Evans 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where DoorDash comes up
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 1:04:21 Benedict Evans But the counter argument would be to say, yeah, you'll use it to do chat GPT, and DoorDash, and Uber, and Instagram, and that cool new game, and that other new cool game that's enabled by LLMs, and to do TikTok, and to do and, and, and,…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 28:04 Shane Parrish Was DoorDash sort of fringe, too, and went mainstream? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:36 Alfred Lin Well, your example about Walmart, where the example about DoorDash focused on, um, the suburbs, there's an example about DoorDash where you want to win McDonald's, or do you want to win the top 100 merchants? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:31 Alfred Lin Um, but I look at, you know, Tony at DoorDash. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:22 Alfred Lin And I think if you ask, uh, Tony Hsu at DoorDash or Brian Chesky at Airbnb, they would probably say the same thing.
- ▶ 1:14:04 Alfred Lin Or DoorDash's decision to go after suburbs and not the cities. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:39 Alfred Lin DoorDash. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:40 Alfred Lin And that allowed DoorDash to grow very, very quickly during the pandemic. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:48 Alfred Lin In DoorDash's case, they simply had to sort of do things that they've never done before.
- ▶ 1:59:39 Alfred Lin Perhaps, you know, as an example, DoorDash started with food delivery, but specifically restaurant delivery, and they waited until they figured out an advantage that they could have in grocery. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:01:15 Alfred Lin Because before DoorDash, um, happened, there were plenty of other sort of solutions. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:03:35 Alfred Lin Yeah, it was hard, because if you, um, the, the one thing that, um, you know, if you sort of believed that it was more profitable to, to transport humans than deliver food, have you, then you would come to the conclusion that Uber and Lyft…