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| − | DoorDash is a food delivery application founded in 2013 by Tony Xu in Palo Alto. DoorDash allows users to order food from local businesses on iPhone, Android and web platforms. As the largest and fastest growing 3rd party delivery service, DoorDash has surpassed its competitors, such as GrubHub and Uber eats. Individuals can sign up to be delivery drivers, or "Dashers", for DoorDash. Users are able to order food from partner restaurants in their area, which is then delivered to the user by Dashers. | + | DoorDash is a food delivery application founded in 2013 by Tony Xu in Palo Alto. DoorDash allows users to order food and grocery products from local businesses on iPhone, Android and web platforms. As the largest and fastest growing 3rd party delivery service, DoorDash has surpassed its competitors, such as GrubHub and Uber eats. Individuals can sign up to be delivery drivers, or "Dashers", for DoorDash. Users are able to order food from partner restaurants in their area, which is then delivered to the user by Dashers. |
===History=== | ===History=== | ||
Tony Xu founded DoorDash in 2013 as Palo Alto Delivery. Xu and a team of his classmates at Stanford had been working with a local store manager on a separate startup project which had ultimately failed. The store manager had reached out to them at the end of their partnership with the problem they were facing, an inability to handle the logistics of their delivery service. Xu took on this new challenge with his student team and began building an application to streamline the delivery process for local businesses which would eventually become DoorDash. Initial employees of DoorDash played roles on the business side, but were also required to deliver for the company for their initial week of employment. After growing in popularity in Palo Alto, the name was switched from Palo Alto Delivery to DoorDash to reflect the companies expansion. | Tony Xu founded DoorDash in 2013 as Palo Alto Delivery. Xu and a team of his classmates at Stanford had been working with a local store manager on a separate startup project which had ultimately failed. The store manager had reached out to them at the end of their partnership with the problem they were facing, an inability to handle the logistics of their delivery service. Xu took on this new challenge with his student team and began building an application to streamline the delivery process for local businesses which would eventually become DoorDash. Initial employees of DoorDash played roles on the business side, but were also required to deliver for the company for their initial week of employment. After growing in popularity in Palo Alto, the name was switched from Palo Alto Delivery to DoorDash to reflect the companies expansion. | ||
| − | DoorDash stood out from its initial competition through the hiring of its own Dashers rather than relying on individual restaurants to utilize their employees. | + | DoorDash stood out from its initial competition through the hiring of its own Dashers rather than relying on individual restaurants to utilize their employees. This allowed users of DoorDash to order from restaurants that did not have their own delivery system set up, offering more food options to users. This advantage allowed DoorDash to take a lead in the market. DoorDash has received many rounds of venture-capital funding reaching more than $1 Billion, allowing them to expand beyond just food delivery and enter into autonomous vehicle development. DoorDash plans to utilize, Drones, autonomous vehicles, and other technologies in the future alongside Dashers to optimize the delivery process. |
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DoorDash is a food delivery application founded in 2013 by Tony Xu in Palo Alto. DoorDash allows users to order food and grocery products from local businesses on iPhone, Android and web platforms. As the largest and fastest growing 3rd party delivery service, DoorDash has surpassed its competitors, such as GrubHub and Uber eats. Individuals can sign up to be delivery drivers, or "Dashers", for DoorDash. Users are able to order food from partner restaurants in their area, which is then delivered to the user by Dashers.
History
Tony Xu founded DoorDash in 2013 as Palo Alto Delivery. Xu and a team of his classmates at Stanford had been working with a local store manager on a separate startup project which had ultimately failed. The store manager had reached out to them at the end of their partnership with the problem they were facing, an inability to handle the logistics of their delivery service. Xu took on this new challenge with his student team and began building an application to streamline the delivery process for local businesses which would eventually become DoorDash. Initial employees of DoorDash played roles on the business side, but were also required to deliver for the company for their initial week of employment. After growing in popularity in Palo Alto, the name was switched from Palo Alto Delivery to DoorDash to reflect the companies expansion.
DoorDash stood out from its initial competition through the hiring of its own Dashers rather than relying on individual restaurants to utilize their employees. This allowed users of DoorDash to order from restaurants that did not have their own delivery system set up, offering more food options to users. This advantage allowed DoorDash to take a lead in the market. DoorDash has received many rounds of venture-capital funding reaching more than $1 Billion, allowing them to expand beyond just food delivery and enter into autonomous vehicle development. DoorDash plans to utilize, Drones, autonomous vehicles, and other technologies in the future alongside Dashers to optimize the delivery process.
