(Transcript) Doordash CEO Tony Xu // Series A with Keith Rabois
Founders Fund Partner Keith Rabois recently launched a new podcast on Sirius XM – Series A with Keith Rabois. For the first episode, he interviewed Doordash cofounder and CEO Tony Xu. You can listen to the entire conversation on Sirius XM. But if you prefer reading, I’ve transcribed the conversation below.
Keith Rabois is a general partner at Founders Fund, a San Francisco based venture capital firm with an unparalleled track record as an entrepreneur, investor and executive. Keith has been instrumental in some of the most ubiquitous social and commerce platforms like Doordash, Lyft, Airbnb, and YouTube. Now he’s here to share conversations with some of today’s most accomplished CEOs and innovators in the technology advancing our future. Welcome to Series A with Keith Rabois on Sirius XM Business Radio.
Keith Rabois: I’m delighted to record the first episode of Series A with Keith Rabois, where we interview the best entrepreneurs in the planet. And we’re going to start with one of the most phenomenal entrepreneurs I’ve ever worked with, Tony Xu of Doordash, cofounder and CEO of doordash. So Tony started Doordash, I believe in 2013, when he was working on a project while he was in business school at Stanford. Tony, what led you to the idea of starting a delivery service in Palo Alto of all places?
