DoorDash

The New Way To Build A Startup

Y Combinator

Customer cited as a client of Giga ML, illustrating scale and competition against larger players.

Google fires protestors, NPR chaos, Humane's AI Pin, Startup tax crisis, sports betting scandal

All-In Podcast

A food delivery service, mentioned in an anecdote about ordering chicken tenders.

Full Length Episode | #183 | March 21, 2022 | Deep Questions Podcast with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

A company that uses New Relic for software monitoring.

FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup

TBPN

A food delivery platform, used as a comparison for the user interface of Kalanick's food delivery services.

E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO

All-In Podcast

A food delivery service, used as an example of a large buyer that benefits from the 'race to the bottom' among payment processors.

E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more

All-In Podcast

A food delivery company, cited as a successful SoftBank investment where the business was already proven and scaling.

E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more

All-In Podcast

Food delivery service whose gross market transactions were often conflated with its actual revenue, demonstrating intellectual dishonesty in reporting.

E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more

All-In Podcast

A marketplace business referenced in contrast to tech-enabled restaurants, highlighting the asset-light nature of true marketplaces.

E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more

All-In Podcast

Mentioned as a small luxury consumers might turn to during austerity.

Announcing Work at a Startup

Y Combinator

An established YC company that will be presenting at the Work at a Startup conference.

#AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

All-In Podcast

Company that Mara Hershenson backed early on, with its CEO Tony Hsu mentioned as someone who would have succeeded regardless of investors.

E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more

All-In Podcast

Food delivery service, whose business model quality is seen as having big upside compared to other marketplace businesses.

Full Length Episode | #178 | February 28, 2022 | Deep Questions Podcast with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Mentioned as one of the companies that uses New Relic for software stack monitoring.

Full Length Episode | #177 | February 28, 2022

Cal Newport

A company that relies on New Relic for software monitoring.

Meta CMO: How Advertising Works Under the Hood

a16z Deep Dives

The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School

Y Combinator

A company whose MVP and early customer discovery process is used as a case study for launching to strangers and gathering feedback.

How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School

Y Combinator

A food delivery company founded by Tony, who is cited as an example of a founder mastering sales.

JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant

All-In Podcast

Food delivery service mentioned for creating driver jobs that could be affected by automation.

E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles

All-In Podcast

Mentioned as a company that did an incredible job in executing a strategy of using negative unit economics to drive growth.

Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2

Y Combinator

A company that raised a large round of funding, which Paul Buchheit invested in partly because he wanted food delivery services for himself.

Startup Business Models and Pricing | Startup School

Y Combinator

A marketplace company listed among the top YC companies, also mentioned for its economies of scale and improved margins.

How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School

Y Combinator

A food delivery service mentioned as an example of a proxy for Rappi's business model in Latin America and also as an idea that originated from founders wishing they could order food to their dorms.

E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner

All-In Podcast

Mentioned as a comparison for Instacart's valuation and as a free cash flow positive company with strong brands.

Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel

Y Combinator

A food delivery service whose founders reportedly did deliveries themselves, serving as another real-world example of tackling initial scaling challenges.