The Unscalable Truth Behind DoorDash’s $100B Empire with Stanley Tang

16 Oct 2025 · 34 min
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DoorDash co-founder Stanley Tang traces the company's path from a Stanford class project called Pollo2Delivery to a $100 billion business. Early on, he and his team manually tracked drivers using Find My Friends and bought prepaid debit cards with cash. A rainy night when orders ran two hours late led them to refund customers and send handwritten apologies with cookies, a decision that shaped the company's obsession with delivery quality.

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