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DoorDash: Tony Xu

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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DoorDash - How Much Money Did You Rake?

In Y Combinator, we launched as DoorDash. I said that we're building a logistics business, not a food delivery company. We wanted to name those easy to spell. A name that was two syllables or less, whose domain name was available. And those are the three criteria and we ran a script across the internet to crawl,. you know, many third-party services such as GoDaddy's of the world.

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