name: DoorDash type: companies aliases: [DoorDash, doordash, @DoorDash, Tony Xu, food delivery] tags: [companies, marketplace, food-delivery, y-combinator, tony-xu] created: 2026-06-18
The dominant US food-delivery marketplace. Co-founded by Tony Xu (YC alum).
"Someone like Tony Xu from Door Dash, that's what they were and that's what they were always. And then there were like little adjustments along the way. They said, 'We're going to be the best food delivery.' And then the micro pivot there was like as everyone else was working on cities, they said, 'Oh, we're going to do suburbs.' And just that little shift allowed them to grow really, really fast and beat everyone else."
"These things always evolve. They always change. And really great founders seem to be able to just ask the first principles questions and then go after that thing."
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