In 2013, Tony Xu was brainstorming ideas for a business school project when he identified a problem he wanted to solve: food delivery. For most restaurants, it was too costly and inefficient, leaving most of the market to pizza and Chinese. Tony and his partners believed they could use technology to connect customers to drivers, who would deliver meals in ev ... Show More
Aug 17
Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
Laura Modi set out to build a better infant formula. What followed was years of setbacks: a crippling dispute with the FDA, a frustrating search for a manufacturer, and the constant fear that the company would run out of money before it reached customers.But today, Bobbie generat ... Show More
1h 19m
Mar 2023
Tony Xu, Founder & CEO of Doordash
In this episode we catch up with Tony Xu, founder and CEO of the food delivery service, DoorDash. Tony and his cofounders were students at Stanford when they first launched DoorDash as a class project. Y Combinator funded them as part of its summer batch in 2013. In this episode, ... Show More
48m 20s
Mar 2024
DoorDash co-Founder & CEO: food delivery, first order and hard work
<p>Tony Xu founded this company as a student and has since transformed it into a global leader in food delivery. Tony shares unique insights into how he made DoorDash a success, his vision for the future of delivery, the war on bits and atoms, and how to organize the physical wor ... Show More
51m 6s
Jun 2021
Food Delivery Wars | Hot Ticket | 1
It's December 2011 in San Francisco. Bastian Lehmann is getting ready to launch his courier app, Postmates. But when he and his co-founders discover people want food delivered, not objects, they pivot to a business already cornered by Grubhub. Meanwhile, 30 miles away in Palo Alt ... Show More
26m 16s
Apr 2021
Tony Xu - A Human and Math Problem - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 28]
My guest today is Tony Xu, co-founder, and CEO of DoorDash. Tony started DoorDash 7.5 years ago, and today it is one of the largest food delivery and logistics platforms globally, with operations in the US, Canada, Australia. In our conversation, we discuss the initial problem th ... Show More
1h 7m
Jun 2021
Food Delivery Wars | Who's The Boss? | 2
It's 1990 in Champaign, Illinois, and 15-year-old Tony Xu is washing dishes in the Chinese restaurant his mother manages. He wants to help people like his Mom, but it'll be many years before he hits on his solution for small businesses. Across the Atlantic, Bastian Lehmann forget ... Show More
23m 21s
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/t_xu">Tony Xu</a> is the CEO and Co-founder of <a href="https://www.doordash.com/">DoorDash</a>, the company empowering merchants to grow their businesses by offering on-demand delivery, data-driven insights, and better ... Show More
