DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market

In this episode of How To Build The Future, Garry sits down with Tony Xu, Co-founder and CEO of DoorDash, to discuss their origin story, how the company survived several near death experiences, and what it takes to transform an entire industry.

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Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Intro
02:45 - How they landed on the idea of DoorDash
05:16 - Doing things that don't scale
07:08 - Figuring out what matters in the early days
09:01 - Answering the biggest questions about demand
10:30 - Demographics of the Dashers
12:03 - DoorDash almost goes out of business (the first time)
14:00 - DoorDash almost dies a second time
16:00 - All you need is one investor to say yes
17:00 - Price war
21:34 - Scaling up
24:32 - The ups and downs of the COVID era
28:00 - Long-term vision
30:00 - Advice for founders today