Talk about doing things that don’t scale. From Doordash’s YC app in 2013.

less than 1m read

·Nov 3, 2024

Processing might take a few minutes. Refresh later.

And the four of us came together about 6 months ago to work on software for small business owners, but we didn't have a need at first. So we just went out and talked to all the small business owners we could find. After over a 100 interviews, we came across a really interesting problem with small business restaurants in an area like this, Palo Alto.

Yeah, so it turns out, um, restaurants in Palo Alto don't deliver even though they really want to, but they can't afford it. Um, but their consumers are craving for it. And the places that the consumers love just can't deliver. We also found out about these delivery drivers who had a ton of spare time, and they all want to earn extra cash during that downtime, right?

And so that's when we built an initial product, PAAlodDelivery.com. And how it works is, uh, the customer goes to the website and places an online order that gets automatically, uh, sent to the restaurant. And then we, as dispatchers, with some pretty neat, uh, routing and batching algorithms, we're able to send the drivers efficiently to get the orders to the customers at a really fast time.

Yeah, and the four of us actually started off as delivery drivers, and...

Are We At The Bottom Of The Market? | Meet Kevin

Probability for a geometric random variable | Random variables | AP Statistics | Khan Academy

View All

Watchers of the Land | Short Film Showcase | National Geographic

[Music] And you can’t ever lose your history or your stories; otherwise, you’ll lose who you are. It’s the Den way to pass on your teachings to younger [Music] people. A lot has changed since the 50s, and now that we do have a say, you know, we’re going t…

Bobby Bones & Caitlin Parker Descend a Cliff | Running Wild with Bear Grylls

You got it? Yeah. All right. [dramatic percussion music] - [grunts] - Step. There you go. Good. This 200-foot descent down a canyon wall is all that stands between us and our extraction point. - Oh my god. But for newly engaged couple Caitlin Parker…

2015 AP Chemistry free response 3d | Chemistry | Khan Academy

Calculate the pH at the half equivalence point. So let’s just remind ourselves what the half equivalence point even is. The equivalence point is when the titrant, in this case the hydrochloric acid, completely reacts with the potassium sorbate, the thing…

Life’s short

Life is short. I’m dying every minute at a time. Right? It’s a, it’s a— you, you. We’ve been dead for 13 and 12 billion years. That’s a lot! That’s how long from The Big Bang till now. The universe will be around 70 billion years. You’re around for 50, 70…