Tony Xu
8 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 9, 2023 by Keith Yandell · said 40 times in 4 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Keith Yandell (31), Jessica Lachs (5), Lenny Rachitsky (3), JM Nickels (1)
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2024 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)
- The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of YC, author)
- Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
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2023 31 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Tony Xu, oldest first
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Feb 9, 2023
Yandell: Domain experts are unlikely to deliver 10x breakthrough outcomes
“If you want to achieve a 10 X outcome, hiring someone that's an expert in the field It's maybe unlikely you're gonna achieve that 10 X outcome because they're likely to do things the way things have always been done. So you might achieve incremental benefits, …”
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Yandell: Tony Xu cut DoorDash restaurant commissions by $100M before IPO
“Tony made a decision and I admit I was on the wrong side of history. I was arguing that this seemed extreme just to cut commissions by basically a hundred million bucks for restaurants to help them stay in business. And I'm like, hold on, we're trying to go pu…”
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Yandell: Accelerating product roadmaps by one week compounds into lapping competitors
“He understands that by pushing a roadmap up, even by a week, if you can continuously push up what you ship by a week, you're going to end up lapping competitors who are just one week behind, because you're going to start the next thing a week sooner, and you'r…”
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Yandell: Kalanick and Xu mastered the law to challenge conservative lawyers
“I've had the pleasure of working with two founders who are very product driven, product first folks in Travis and Tony. And I found that the way they engage on the legal side is with a curiosity I referenced earlier, which is they're both hyper curious and the…”
Jun 27, 2024 negative
DoorDash founders regretted expanding geographically before mastering their original market
“There were definitely some themes with like a Dora Chung and Tony Zhu DoorDash, where they said they really made a mistake early on scaling into different cities before they had nailed, you know, the original city.”