DoorDash's Application Video for YC S13

9 Dec 2020 · 1 min
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In this German‑language application video for Y Combinator’s S13 batch, the four co‑founders—Stanley Tang, Andy, Evan, and Toni—introduce themselves and outline their collective experience (Stanley and Andy studied computer science at Stanford and interned at Facebook; Evan co‑founded the music‑video service Vivo; Toni was a product editor at Square). They describe how, six months prior, they set out to build software for small businesses, conducting over a hundred interviews with local merchants. The interviews revealed a specific pain point in Palo Alto: small restaurants wanted to offer delivery but could not afford it, while there were idle delivery drivers seeking side income. In response, they built an initial product, Paultotli.com, a web platform where customers place orders that are automatically sent to restaurants, and the founders, acting as dispatchers, use sophisticated routing and batching algorithms to efficiently assign drivers. They started as drivers themselves, hired more as they grew, and within the first month after launch, without heavy marketing, they secured over 150 paying customers in the Palo Alto area and generated significant revenue. The video emphasizes the founders’ hands‑on approach, the market need they uncovered, and the early validation of their solution.

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