DoorDash saw a higher food delivery volume surge during #PaulTyson fight than the Super Bowl 😳
Congrats @jakepaul @MikeTyson on a well promoted fight
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Today, we're excited to launch Package Pickup, a new service for you to request a Dasher to pick up packages from your home and drop them off at the local UPS, FedEx, USPS.
Now covering 95% of the U.S., we're excited for you all to give it a try! doordash.news/consumer/intro…
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Thrilled to team up with @Tempo as a design partner to see what’s possible with a payments-first blockchain. The pace of crypto innovation is incredible at this time, and we’re ready to learn and build alongside them.
Introducing @tempo
A payments-first blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm
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Happy 20th anniversary, @ycombinator! Thanks for believing in us back in 2013. Let's keep it going 🚀🚀🚀
@t_xu @stanleytang
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Shout out to @stanleytang, who’s been working on the delivery autonomy problem at DoorDash since 2018. Excited that you’re finally able to announce this to the world!
Currently live in early access beta in the greater Phoenix metro area 👀
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DoorDash officially launched in Japan today! blog.doordash.com/doordash-e…
Congratulations to the team for this amazing milestone, and I'm excited for the opportunity to service the Japanese market
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I've been very impressed with the execution and speed of the @gigaai in improving our support AI performance. Thanks Varun and the team for the partnership!
Excited to share our partnership with DoorDash.
Together we went from kickoff to real impact — in weeks, not quarters.
Highlights:
- Time to value: weeks, not quarters
- Quality at scale: 90%+ DWR in production
- Built for scale: 10B+ lifetime orders, 500K+ merchants, 8M+ Dashers, and hundreds of thousands of daily assistance requests
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Today I'm excited to announce my $10m gift to @harkerschool. I’m thankful for the education I received there, and I hope this can provide a way for more students to get access to Harker's world-class education.
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My heart goes out to the families affected by what transpired in Atlanta last night. The AAPI community historically hasn’t been vocal, but we can't ignore these recent violent acts anymore. It’s time for all of us to unite to #StopAAPIHate. blog.doordash.com/standing-w…
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AGI is going to require specialized, domain-specific agents to be useful. We're excited to partner with the @appliedcompute team to leverage DoorDash's data to build useful AI agents for our local commerce ecosystem!
Generalists are useful, but it’s not enough to be smart.
Advances come from specialists, whether human or machine.
To have an edge, agents need specific expertise, within specific companies, built on models trained on specific data.
We call this Specific Intelligence.
It's what we're building at Applied Compute.
We unlock the latent knowledge inside a company, use it to train custom models, and deploy an in-house agent workforce that reports to your team.
We work with sophisticated companies that have already captured early gains from general models, like @cognition, @DoorDash, and @mercor_ai. They’re pulling even further ahead with proprietary in-house agents that don’t need to wait for the next public model release.
Together, we are building and validating models and agents in days instead of months, achieving state-of-the-art performance on customer evals.
Our team has high density and low latency. Our founders all worked on different parts of this problem while they were researchers at OpenAI — @ypatil125 as a key member on the agentic software engineer effort (Codex), @rhythmrg as a core contributor to the first RL-trained reasoning model (o1), and @lindensli as a core contributor on ML systems and infrastructure for RL training.
Two-thirds of the team are former founders, and everyone brings a deep technical background, from top AI researchers to Math Olympiad winners.
We are backed by $80M in funding from Benchmark, Sequoia, Lux, Elad Gil, Victor Lazarte, Omri Casspi, and others. With their support, we are growing the team, scaling deployments, and bringing to market the first generation of agent workforces built on specific models.
In short:
1. We are building Specific Intelligence for specific work at specific companies.
2. That will power in-house agent workforces to support their human bosses.
3. That in turn will unlock AI’s full potential through humanity’s greatest engine of progress: thriving corporations in a free market.
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First topic: Optimizing for career growth. Focusing on ppl who want an expedited track to senior roles or starting their own co’s some day. I’ve talked to quite a few eng candidates trying to optimize for this. Here’s my framework for thinking about it
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I look forward to speaking later today at Scale Transform about applied ML applications at @DoorDashEng! See you there!
🚨 Transform starts in less than 24 hours 🚨
The wait is finally over. Prepare the big screen, get out your favorite snacks & drinks, because we're starting the 🔴 LIVE broadcast tomorrow, Friday, March 26th at 8AM (PDT) sharp.
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Hello Stuttgart!
Jaaa! Today we are launching in Germany, Europe's biggest economy 🇩🇪 doordash.news/2021/11/16/doo…
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I thought I knew what “Black Lives Matter” meant, but not until I chanted it with protestors last Friday did I internalize how messed up it is how Black ppl are consistently treated worse off.
I pledge to do better in being anti-racist moving fwd.
#BlackLivesMatter
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Landed earlier today in Austin! Going to speaking at a panel tmrw at #sxsw on how we're using ML to improve the consumer app experience at DoorDash, hope to see you there if you're around!
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Excited to work with you @bthdonohue in building out our NYC engineering site!
Excited to share I took a new role at @DoorDash as Engineering Director for Consumer Verticals + NYC Site Lead!
Both really excited to join the DoorDash team and to be back in NYC.
For all my NY friends, DM me if you want to catch up!
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We were pretty nervous about standardizing around Kotlin for our backend language a few years back, but it’s ended up being a great decision!
📢 A new Kotlin server-side case study is out!
Read the story of @DoorDash, the San Francisco-based food delivery giant, and how Kotlin helps them serve millions of users every day ⬇️ blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/20…
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6/ if you’re on a rocket ship and feel like quitting due to the chaos, if you have a supportive manager (otherwise u may be in a toxic env), you should probably try to stay on as long as possible. They call startups roller coasters for a reason!
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Really excited to announce that we're launching our New York engineering office! If you're interested to join the fastest growing on-demand logistics company in America, please apply! lnkd.in/e8Fwaw8
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Holy cow. I just finished reading The Phoenix Project. Highly recommend this to any CTOs/technical leaders out there trying to uplevel their operations.
Will probably need to read this book a few more times to really internalize some of the learnings though.
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Had a lot of fun speaking at #DEVWEEK2019 about my journey scaling our engineering team at @doordash. It's been a wild ride so far, and it was great to share some of my learnings. Thanks @DeveloperWeek for having me!
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Very excited to have Aliza and the Rex team joining DoorDash starting this week! Can't wait to get to building together 🚀
I’m so proud of all the work we’ve done over the past 4 years @rexapp. It’s been a rewarding journey to help people discover local businesses they’ll love.
I’m very excited to share that the Rex team will be joining @DoorDash, where we’ll continue to help connect people to the best of their local neighborhoods.
A huge thank you to @amitku, @adinatecklu and all of our investors for believing in and supporting Rex.
We’re excited to start working with @andyfang, @rajat_shroff, @ParagDhanuka and the entire DoorDash team!
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It's been amazing what we've been able to accomplish with AWS over the past few years. Here's a snippet of my talk at the AWS NYC Summit this morning!
DoorDash discusses how AWS has helped them improve scalability, reliability, and innovation. #AWSSummit NY pscp.tv/w/b_c7vDF4blFyWHZlWV…
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Excited to have our team at this event! We'll be presenting and will have a table, where you can meet us and learn more about what challenges we're tackling here at @DoorDash !
1/ If you're an engineer, please come to YC headquarters on July 28 for our Work at a Startup expo. You'll meet the founders of 35 great YC companies who are hiring. Apply to attend: workatastartup.com/expo
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Thanks @joannezchen for the interview, glad I could share our story with you
Loved chatting with @andyfang, co-founder and CTO @DoorDash, on our how a class project turned into a massive food delivery service in America... as part of our #AmericanDreamers series.
@Forbes @FoundationCap
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Unfortunately, we had to say goodbye to many talented teammates today. To those affected, I appreciate the work you put in to build DoorDash, and I'm sorry about how your tenure ended. Don't hesitate to reach out if you need any help with your next move.
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We're looking to hire someone to give us more insight into how we recruit, retain, and motivate our teams here at DoorDash. If this role (and working alongside me very closely!) sound appealing to you, apply here! lnkd.in/eHF3quH
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Looking to hire a director for Production Engineering to oversee SRE/Devops and release engineering. LMK if you or some1 u know is interested! We have eng offices in SF and Mountain View linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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Going to start post more regularly about my thoughts, particularly on engineering-related topics and maybe some random others. Partially inspired by reading Skin in the Game by @nntaleb but also have been considering this a while. Will see how this goes!
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DoorDash just launched our revamped engineering blog! You can check it out here and subscribe to our eng blog newsletter as well: doordash.engineering
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Exciting times here at @DoorDash. If you're interested in joining the team, please let me know!
We are excited to share that we closed $250 million co-led by Coatue Management & DST Global. It’s been an incredible year of growth for DoorDash. Thank you Merchants, Dashers & Consumers for getting us to this milestone! We are just getting started. drd.sh/GXo5nM/
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5/ Totally get it if you want big co $ assurance. Or if you want the lifestyle of working somewhere smaller where you know everyone personally. But if you’re optimizing for career / want to start your own co, join a co that’s growing FAST. Hop on a rocket ship when you can.
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For those hiring, we're actively compiling a directory for those looking for a career transition. You can reach out to alumni@doordash.com for access to that directory.
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2/ Go to companies where the business/team is growing quickly, on a % basis. Note: did not say valuation, look at user/revenue growth. These opportunities are where you will experience the chaos that will significantly challenge you.
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While I'm still bullish on the business fundamentals and our future growth prospects, we still made mistakes that led us to this painful decision. Today was a wake-up call for DoorDash, for us to manage our operating expenses more rigorously moving forward.
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3/ I’ve talked to ppl who say they want to start their own company some day. Then decide to join a 7-yr-old company that has 20 employees still (“small company”). Or join some division in a big company that’s doing “machine learning”.
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Neat work with running better experiments, Yixin and Carla! doordash.engineering/2019/02…
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4/ These will not expedite your career growth. As a manager, you won’t be pressed to aggressively grow your teams out, or to execute on high stakes, high stress projects. As an IC, you won’t be scrambling how to figure out how to scale 5x in 6mo while shipping robust products.
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Check out my latest ride with #LimeBike.
Use referral code RTIYCC7 to sign up and receive $3 ride coupons when you ride.
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4/ Learning to be a recruiter can be unnatural for an eng to learn. This probably isn’t what you expected when becoming a mgr, but you shud invest the time to learn here. Get to know the top recruiters in your co and learn how they excel at their jobs!
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Also, SUPER excited to have Prabir joining as our CFO! Can't wait to have him onboard.
blog.doordash.com/prabir-ada…
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Engineering managers (EMs) and hiring—There are a lot of things that make a great EM; one of those things, particularly when the demands on the business are great, is to be able to quickly build out your teams. I’ve observed a few things about the successful EMs:
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Excited to see what @pgaooo and the Aquarium team will build to help companies deploy ML models faster!
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Extremely excited to have Jeremy Rishel as our VP Engineering and Rajat Shroff as our VP Product onboard! Can't wait to see what we can accomplish together to take DoorDash to the next level. lnkd.in/gX8g67k
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Thx for having me on your podcast @moderncto_io !
@andyfang, CTO of DoorDash, and Joel talk about recognizing the organizational wins while keeping motivated to push for more. Andy also points out that it's still important to look at all that you and your team have accomplished! Finding the balance betwe…lnkd.in/ehavpWG
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Manu!! My favorite player growing up and who I modeled my game after. Also the only NBA jersey I own (and wore to my college graduation). Thanks @manuginobili for all the memories! #Ginoooooooooobili
Today, with a wide range of feelings, I'm announcing my retirement from basketball. IMMENSE GRATITUDE to everyone (family, friends, teammates, coaches, staff, fans) involved in my life in the last 23 years. It's been a fabulous journey. Way beyond my wildest dreams.
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Was great to chat @ryancarson! Hope I shared useful insights to your viewers
Had an awesome chat with @andyfang (Co-founder/CTO at @DoorDash) on Change Wave! He shared some valuable insights on starting and growing a company.
Episode dropping soon! 💥
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3/ One is my biggest pet peeves here: when EMs complain that they’re not getting enough recruiting support when they’re doing nothing themselves to build their pipelines. In fast growing org, *every1* wants more recruiting support. Best EMs do the hard work to support themselves.
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1/ EMs who are great at hiring completely own their hiring goals. It’s not the recruiter’s job to build out your team. It’s yours. The sooner you realize that, the better off you’ll be.
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Excited to see you thrive in this new role!
I’ve switched from design to product management at @DoorDash in the past month. I’d always been curious about product and am very grateful I was given a chance to try something totally new & be mentored by some incredibly smart folks. A few, early notes on what I’ve learned -
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2/ Source ppl for the pipeline. Optimize the interview process. Organize the next meetup at your office. Def do the initial phone screens/coffee chats yourself to start. These are all things you should do to build momentum w your reqs. Don’t just delegate these to your recruiters
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You should join DoorDash! You'll get a free delivery if you sign up through this link doordash.com/consumer/referr…
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Exciting work here Zohaib, using Kotlin in our backend has been fun “Avoiding cache stampede at DoorDash” by DoorDash blog.doordash.com/avoiding-c…
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Join DoorDash! You'll get a free delivery if you signup through this link doordash.com/consumer/referr…
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This is huge news! Excited to see the opportunities this funding opens up for our team
Some personal news: we just raised $127 million to help build the best delivery service possible. blog.doordash.com/post/14149…
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@RheingoldRiver @doordash hey sorry about that, there was a temporary blip, it should be good now!
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Watch What Happens When You Push Away Skilled Immigrants ift.tt/2OcuTiY (cmts ift.tt/2vF0lOC)
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hey zach, sorry to hear about that. would be interested to hear more about what you're experiencing, could you DM me any details you have on what you're seeing?
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last night I just figured out that the long steps Manu takes when he drives is the Eurostep.. @mazebu @hsiungbaobao #newgotomove
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aiite @mmmfudgie has gotten me to realize my twitter turned into a bunch of news retweets. Gotta get back to mah real roots #TalkingToMyself
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“@pudinmrshmllw: 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/… via @marcandangel”
Active Shorts for Active Youths!! sport.woot.com/plus/active-s… via @wootsport
Led By High Growth Expectations, Food Delivery Startup DoorDash Launches in DC dcinno.streetwise.co/2015/03… via @DC_Inno
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It's All Your Fault linkedin.com/pulse/its-all-y…
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Hey rly sry 2 hear abt this. We're actively building to warn users if they have passwords exposed in other companies' data breaches. In the meantime, since your acct has already been compromised, pls contact password-assistance@doordash.com, which routes to a special support line
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"The fact that the Holocaust Museum has several armed guards tells you why we need a Holocaust Museum."
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“Why Developing Serious Relationships in Your 20s Matters” by @espiers medium.com/architecting-a-li…
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Some insight into how we're building out @doordash: blog.doordash.com/post/97317…
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