Food Delivery Wars | Who's The Boss? | 2

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It's 1990 in Champaign, Illinois, and 15-year-old Tony Xu is washing dishes in the Chinese restaurant his mother manages. He wants to help people like his Mom, but it'll be many years before he hits on his solution for small businesses.

Across the Atlantic, Bastian Lehmann forgets his snowboard while moving house. He can't find a way to get it shipped to him cheaply, and the idea for Postmates is born. Meanwhile, Grubhub founders Matt Maloney and Mike Evans have decided local pizza should be as easy to find online as apartments. And eventually, Uber’s Travis Kalanick will recognize that food delivery is the next logical step in his booming transport empire.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to business wars at free on Amazon Music.
0:04.6	Download the app today.
0:07.0	One, two, one.
0:16.0	Two thousand, champagne Illinois.
0:19.0	Fifteen-year-old Tony Shoe is in the kitchen of the Chinese restaurant his mother manages.
0:24.0	The tantalizing aromas of ginger and garlic walked through the air.
0:28.0	A chef saw Taze noodles in a giant wok.
0:31.0	Meat sizzles in a pan.
0:34.0	Shoe has math homework to do.
0:36.0	But his mother hands him a stack of dishes.
0:39.0	Tony, I just cleared table 13.
0:41.0	Can you wash these for me?
0:43.0	Yes, mom.
0:45.0	Shoe has been helping out his mom in the restaurant since he was nine.
0:49.0	He does dishes, buses, tables, fixes the printer.
0:52.0	Recently, he's even been making a website for the restaurant.
0:56.0	He does whatever his mother needs to keep things running smoothly.
1:01.0	Shoe gets to work.
1:02.0	He scrubs the grease stains and starts thinking.
1:06.0	If only, there were another way to help his parents.
1:10.0	Before she immigrated to the US, his mother was a doctor in Nanjing, China.
1:15.0	But when his father was offered a visit to study engineering at the University of Illinois,
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