Delivery Wars

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Arts, Science, History, Food

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Big tech is changing every aspect of our world. But how? And at what cost? Gastropod is excited to share the first episode of a special four-part Land of the Giants series, in which Recode teams up with Eater to unbox the evolving world of food delivery. Find out how the rise of investor-backed third-party delivery apps has dramatically changed consumer behavior, helped create a modern gig workforce, disrupted small businesses, and potentially changed our relationship with food forever. We need your help! We’re conducting an audience survey to hear from you. The information you share is important to help us keep making the podcast and, we hope, keep making it better! Head to Gastropod.com/survey to participate. We really appreciate it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello Gastropod listeners, we have something extra special for you today and it's actually
0:07.3	probably one of my favorite recent podcast series.
0:10.2	It's called Delivery Wars and it's a partnership between Eater and a Vox record podcast called
0:15.0	Land of the Giants.
0:16.2	This four episode series is hosted by Foodwriter and host of See Something, Say Something, Amadoliockber
0:22.7	and it explores how food delivery became a multi-billion dollar industry, as well as
0:28.2	how food delivery apps have changed how we eat and how the restaurant business works.
0:32.4	The four episodes examine the world of food delivery from four perspectives, business
0:36.4	and investors, drivers, restaurants and of course eaters.
0:40.1	You're about to listen to the first one, it starts off nearly a decade ago with undergrads
0:44.2	at Stanford pitching a brand new business to help local restaurants deliver food.
0:49.4	We promise that after you listen to this one, you will then want to hear all the rest
0:52.6	of the series, so get ready to download all four episodes of Delivery Wars wherever
0:56.7	you get your podcasts.
0:57.9	The even better news is that there's a new season of Land of the Giants out on July 13th.
1:03.8	It's called the Facebook Meta Disruption and it covers the company formerly known as
1:09.0	Facebook's impacts on our lives and relationships, not to mention the social infrastructure of the
1:14.2	web and everything else besides.
1:16.9	So subscribe to Land of Giants for that too.
1:19.4	Enjoy and we'll be back with a fresh new episode of Gastropod in two weeks.
1:24.2	The lighting is bad and the video quality isn't much better.
1:31.2	Hey I'm Stanley, I'm a Stanford CS major, I did fun and engineering at Facebook.
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