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Tony Xu, Founder & CEO of Doordash

The Social Radars

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The Importance of Delivering in America

Palo Alto delivery.com was set up on January 12, 2013 by a group of students at Stanford University. The site allowed users to order food from restaurants in Palo Alto using PDF menus and Google voice numbers. But the company couldn't make money because it didn't have access to credit cards or other forms of payment. "We were trying to answer this question: Do customers want their tippy delivered? That's all we were trying to do"

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