#BestMovieLineEver
Richard: "For thousands of years, guys like us have gotten the shit kicked out of us. But now, for the first time, we're living in an era when we can be in charge. And build empires! We could be the Vikings of our day." #siliconValley
My conversation with Tony Xu (@t_xu), co-founder & CEO of @DoorDash.
0:00 DoorDash MVP in 43 Minutes
1:39 How Delivery Worked in 2013
3:17 Small Business Roots and Insight
5:48 Why Restaurants First
8:24 Palo Alto vs San Francisco
11:03 Early Customers and Unit Economics
15:22 YC Summer Three Questions
19:50 The Hidden Complexity of Delivery
22:02 Competing on Invisible Details
23:54 Chaos Data and Experiment Loops
30:58 Trust Reset Every Day
31:30 Stanford Game Meltdown and Refunds
34:41 Scaling Through Experiments
37:37 Customer North Star Metrics
40:10 CEO Customer Support Habit
42:55 Anecdotes Versus Data
46:52 Eternal Mission Local Economies
50:09 Turning Data Into Merchant Growth
59:12 New Products Beyond Delivery
1:01:14 Autonomous Delivery Strategy
1:05:06 Hiring Rhodes Scholar Navy SEALs
1:12:46 Driver Switch Experiment
1:13:42 Who Delivers and Why
1:15:33 Hiring for Action
1:18:07 Earned Secrets via Experiments
1:20:01 Money vs Problem Solving
1:21:18 Thousand Days of Hell
1:26:04 Staying Sane as CEO
1:30:07 Ignore the Stock Price
1:31:44 Two Operating Systems
1:35:17 Internal Venture Stage Gates
1:38:17 Learning from Founder Peers
1:42:29 Jiu Jitsu Lessons
1:44:37 AI Changes the Loop
1:47:01 Data Needs Action
1:48:24 Closing Thoughts
Includes paid partnerships.
POKÉMON GO PLAYERS TRAINED 30 BILLION IMAGE AI MAP
Niantic says photos and scans collected through Pokémon Go and its AR apps have produced a massive dataset of more than 30 billion real-world images.
The company is now using that data to power visual navigation for delivery robots, letting them identify exact locations on city streets without relying on GPS.
Source: NewsForce
if you’re drawn to:
richard feynman
alan turing
claude shannon
john von neumann
nikola tesla
seymour papert
marvin minsky
judea pearl
dennis ritchie
donald knuth
rodd brooks
yann lecun
john carmack
dieter rams
elon musk
bjarne stroustrup
steve jobs
you’re not just into tech; you’re into the art of engineering,
the philosophy of systems, and the beauty of how things work.
you’ve found your people.
@JensHonack Strong men create good times, good times create weak men,weak men create tough times, tough times create strong men, saying Mark addicted 3 billion people to their phone, that’s some lame take. The good times he created for this generation is creating weak men, not his fault.