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The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:13 Pedro Franceschi Like DoorDash in the early days, similar, right?
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:49 Harj Taggar Amplitude is one of the world's leading analytics platforms, and they're used by some of the biggest companies in the world, like Cursor, DoorDash, and Walmart.
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:34 Aaron Levie Like when I want food, it comes in 20 minutes from DoorDash.
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:00 Arne Englander Uh, so our model was a little bit different to a DoorDash or an Instacart, so we were what's called a vertically integrated model, which means we had our own warehouses, we held the stock ourselves, and this was relatively new in Europe.
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:17 Aadit Palicha And I think that you don't really find a lot of that, you know, candidly in, in India so far, which is why obviously YC was as valuable as it was because, you know, people were just like, you know, brutally honest with us that, hey man,…
- ▶ 24:17 Aadit Palicha And until we can credibly come in and say that, Hey, uh, we're able to hold our own to some of the best, uh, globally, like a, like an Amazon or a DoorDash or a Mercado Libre or all these other companies.
DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:50 Garry Tan Today's guest, Tony Hsu, who created DoorDash, which now has mid-sixty percent of all food delivery in the United States.
- ▶ 1:27 Tony Xu And we, we called it a project, I think for the entire first year of the company's life, even after legally incorporating.
- ▶ 2:17 Tony Xu When it came to DoorDash, um, the initial idea
- ▶ 5:37 Garry Tan It was called Palo Alto Delivery. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:44 Tony Xu Um, roughly speaking, 20 drivers who drove for UberX at the time and 20 who, uh, deliver for DoorDash. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:20 Tony Xu I mean, the company almost went out of business because, uh, you know, we didn't, we didn't raise a lot of money from Y Combinator, uh, with the initial grant, and so we were looking for seed financing, and we were, we were a couple weeks… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:54 Garry Tan So, DoorDash actually almost died, I guess, after a Stanford football game in the fall of, uh, uh, we did. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:00 Tony Xu We've had a few occasions like this in the history of DoorDash where business is actually going really well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:39 Tony Xu And I think for DoorDash, 2016, 1718, a lot of those times or moments were just before that moment. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:12 Garry Tan I mean, the amazing thing is you came out of, like, sort of the capital as a bludgeon phase. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:49 Tony Xu Next to 20 13 was probably the year where it felt most like DoorDash NYC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:33 Garry Tan What are you excited about for DoorDash? 4 times in the scene
Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:39 Michael Seibel Did you ever remember DoorDash's launch?
Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:03 unnamed speaker DoorDash, and how they built the first version of their product in one day, and did a lot of clever manual work to find out whether people wanted what they were building. 3 times in the scene
How To Build A Tech Startup With No Technical Skills · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:31 Michael Seibel It's just a copy of DoorDash with a little twist. 2 times in the scene
Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:39 Michael Seibel Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash. 3 times in the scene
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:45 Brad Flora DoorDash.
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:48 Kat Mignalek I want to share the MVP for DoorDash. 5 times in the scene
How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:01 Gustaf Alströmer So Tony from DoorDash, Mathilde from Front, Tracy from PlanGrid, and Steve Jobs.
Startup Business Models and Pricing | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:34 Aaron Epstein There's DoorDash. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:54 Aaron Epstein In the example of companies like DoorDash and Instacart, they've reached economies of scale where they're so large now that they've been able to drive their costs further down at this scale
How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:16 Jared Friedman And roughly the story of Checkr is delivery services like DoorDash and Instacart and Uber started to take off.
- ▶ 11:04 Jared Friedman And when Rappi got started, there were already food delivery companies in other parts of the world like DoorDash. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:52 Jared Friedman Great example of this is DoorDash. 4 times in the scene
Save Your Startup During an Economic Downturn · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:24 Dalton Caldwell DoorDash, who I guess we always talk about, but you know, they were good at numbers and they understood default alive, default dead, and they understood burn, like very sophisticated. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:04 Michael Seibel And then maybe the last takeaway here is that if you, if you are in an operationally intensive business, you know, a la DoorDash, you better be 10 X better than the people around you at knowing your numbers at steering that plane well.
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:25 Michael Seibel The Airbnb founders taking photos, the DoorDash folks doing deliveries.
How To Change The World? Get The Small Things Right – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:52 Dalton Caldwell Like imagine asking the founders of DoorDash about food delivery and what they would have to say about it versus me.
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:13 Gustaf Alströmer It's DoorDash. 2 times in the scene
Announcing Work at a Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:46 Jared Friedman We have everything from like established successful companies like Instacart, DoorDash, and PlanGrid.
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:42 Pejman Nozad The other one actually, this is just off the press, you know, DoorDash, another amazing Y Combinator company, which actually I, um, met the founder at Y Combinator Demo Day, um, just raised five hundred million dollars, and I made that… 2 times in the scene
Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:24 Paul Buchheit Like actually, ah, another funny story here is DoorDash, which you may have seen in the news, they just raised another half billion. 2 times in the scene