@sharpeofwallst: 4 Stanford kids couldn’t get pho delivered to their dorm. So they built a website in a weekend, printed fake menus, and personally drove the orders themselves. That side project became DoorDash. Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang, and Evan Moore launched it in 2013 with basically nothing — no tech, no drivers, no funding. Tony’s mom was their first “restaurant partner.” He’d take her recipes, list them online, and deliver the food himself in his car. They got into Y Combinator. Then the checks started coming. By 2020 they IPO’d at $102 a share. The stock popped 86% on day one. Tony Xu is now worth over $1 billion. From driving pho in a Honda to ringing the NYSE bell. The craziest startups don’t start in boardrooms. They start with a problem you actually lived. ——- #doordash #startup #ycombinator #sucsess #motivation
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op :
VEVO engineer. holy pull
2026-05-05 06:26:00
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User :
Omg I had no idea DoorDash started as a Y combinator application😭 so cool
2026-05-05 06:53:24
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mozartrella :
Wow impressive. These kids will go places!
2026-05-04 09:02:01
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stevie 🌐 :
Being a CS major seemed so much easier back then.
2026-05-05 15:43:10
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blurseba :
“And im tony”
2026-05-04 06:02:18
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Jasbr :
How it worked out. Lower margins for restaurants, lower money for drivers and 4 billionaires. I am not against tech but I think the whole model is broken.
2026-05-04 21:14:51
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Mackattack0703 :
Was legit until prices went up 250%
2026-05-05 03:18:40
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Halal.Hennessy :
Ehh just a regular tech start up. They won’t last
2026-05-05 03:11:21
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👾 :
Where’s Santa Cruz?
2026-05-04 17:54:25
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Mannydrmr :
Such a good ideas. Seems so obvious! 🤦🏻♂️
2026-05-05 19:40:19
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tinohcosta :
These were not your ordinary software devs from the get go
2026-05-06 16:20:39
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choco :
tech used to be cool and solved a real problem. now people make AI finance apps
2026-05-07 00:16:45
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Tony :
No AI in the pitch? they will fail from competition
2026-05-07 17:06:08
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Chambiar AI • :
It starts with a problem 🙏🏻
2026-05-04 13:40:04
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emaricyon :
This is super cool. Never knew that’s how DoorDash started.
2026-05-08 06:45:22
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Terry C :
Most billionaires are engineers
2026-05-07 21:27:14
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virtualmartin :
now those restaurants hate us lol
2026-05-04 21:34:39
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Brent :
if you think they’re getting a domain like delivery.com without an insane investment idk what to tell you
2026-05-04 23:46:14
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JT :
VEVO used to run it back then 😭
2026-05-06 04:54:23
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McChickenJake :
Where is Santa Cruz✌🏽😭
2026-05-05 05:08:19
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Wragebaiter :
Now they inflate the prices
2026-05-05 02:49:39
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_ 🍕 :
The VEVO guy with the seat at the table😅
2026-05-05 15:08:07
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Daniel :
Isn’t doordash non profitable? And always has been 💀
2026-05-06 10:26:40
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Yas یاس🇩🇪 :
Drivers and passengers/customers are still not linked directly.the software companies margin in the middle make things unaffordable.
2026-06-21 22:53:30
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CoinTerminal :
Just 4 guys casually talking about something they are genuinely interested in. That's how simple a good pitch is
2026-05-08 15:31:30
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