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Tony Xu, Founder & CEO of Doordash

The Social Radars

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being a Nerd

I grew up in Champaign, Illinois. I went to Berkeley and then Stanford Business School. What made you want to start the GSB at Stanford? That's a great question. It was actually on John Donahoe's advice that I applied for business school. He thought it would teach me much more about the human side of how to do business than academic fronts.

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