Fang: Non-technical teams drive DoorDash fastest AI seat adoption growth
Andy Fang · Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang · Jul 23, 2026 · at 42:48
DoorDash co-founder Andy Fang discusses how AI adoption is shifting across engineering and operational departments.
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“The vast majority of that spend is still within like engineering related tasks, but we're actually seeing the highest amount of growth in our organization in terms of like seats in the non-technical organizations, because, you know, analysts are finding a lot of value in it.”
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