DoorDash
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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.
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.
