4.8 • 186 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Tony Xu founded this company as a student and has since transformed it into a global leader in food delivery. Tony shares unique insights into how he made DoorDash a success, his vision for the future of delivery, the war on bits and atoms, and how to organize the physical world. Join us as we explore the world of DoorDash with the very impressive CEO.
The production team on this episode were PLAN-B's Pål Huuse and Niklas Figenschau Johansen. Background research was done by Sigurd Brekke, with input from portfolio manager Irene Jensen.
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0:00.0 | Today I'm here with Tony Shue. Pretty amazing, actually. You came from China, really young, |
0:06.0 | worked very hard, did all kinds of jobs, you know, got to Stanford, started, you know, this |
0:13.0 | incredible company, which is now kind of the biggest food delivery company in America. |
0:18.0 | About to conquer the world, made billions, given lots of them away |
0:21.7 | and philanthropy. |
0:22.7 | I mean, basically, I'm sitting here in front of the American dream. |
0:25.6 | What are you, what are your reflections about your journey? |
0:39.1 | Well, I think that it's impossible to predict how things go for you, you know, as you think |
0:45.9 | about these things. |
0:46.6 | I think it's, you know, as you recounted that list of experiences, it's only one that can |
0:51.8 | be told backwards. |
0:52.7 | It's not one that when I was, you know, mowing lawns at the age of seven trying to save up money for Nintendo games or duck hunt or washing dishes in my mom's restaurant. |
1:03.0 | Could I have predicted what would have happened later on? |
1:05.0 | But I think it's just how incredible things, you know, put your mind to things, |
1:12.0 | work hard and get lucky. |
1:14.8 | How hard have you worked? |
1:17.3 | Probably not as hard as a lot of people. |
1:20.4 | But now, I've been very fortunate. |
1:22.3 | You know, I think that working hard certainly is something that has always really been |
1:27.2 | in my family. I mean, |
1:28.0 | I think this really comes from my parents, right? Both of them came to the U.S., brought me from |
1:33.3 | China to Illinois when I was five. And, you know, I really didn't get to see them that much, |
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