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Tony Xu, cofounder and CEO of DoorDash, joins John for a pint to discuss how they won a crowded market by obsessing over retention and the reality of fighting fraud in the physical world. They cover the harsh economics of the restaurant industry, why DoorDash succeeded where Google failed, and the harrowing story of spending 40% of their remaining cash on refunds to …...more

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The economics and trends of the restaurant industry, with Tony Xu of DoorDash

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Tony Xu, cofounder and CEO of DoorDash, joins John for a pint to discuss how they won a crowded market by obsessing over retention and the reality of fighting fraud in the physical world. They cover the harsh economics of the restaurant industry, why DoorDash succeeded where Google failed, and the harrowing story of spending 40% of their remaining cash on refunds to save the company’s reputation. Tony introduces Dot, their new autonomous delivery robot, and explains why true autonomy requires solving for the “last two feet” of delivery. Finally, he shares lessons from the early days, including why customer obsession sometimes means baking cookies. Full transcript on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/cheekyp... Subscribe to Cheeky Pint Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2IHbGJJ... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Substack: https://substack.com/@cheekypint/note... Key moments 00:00:25 Why did DoorDash win? 00:10:50 China 00:17:10 Restaurant trends 00:27:59 Loyalty 00:30:40 Stripe Issuing 00:44:09 Delivery modalities 00:51:11 Fraud 00:58:32 New products 01:13:26 Dot…...more

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