DoorDash overtook the entire industry in 7 years, WTF? Should we invest?

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bromance23

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bromance23
Dec 6, 2020 41 Comments

Does anyone else find it balls to the walls insane that DoorDash is the number 1 food delivery company? I think people somehow forget that the company is only 7 years old. Grubhub and Seamless were the "FAANG" of food ordering for decades, Postmates had a 2 year head start, and Uber has the brand name recognition with 100M+ monthly users. How in god's name did a no-name startup overtake Seamless, Postmates, and Uber - not just overtake, but DOMINATE the industry in half a decade?

Just think about that for a second. Suppose some company gets started in 2013 and overtakes Google in search - that is unheard of. Suppose some company gets started in 2013 and overtakes Facebook as a social media platform. Suppose some company gets started in 2013 and overtakes Salesforce as the CRM company for businesses.

Does anyone find it mind boggling that 3 college kids with zero brand name recognition overtook Seamless, Postmates, and Uber in the logistics business? They are now the official delivery platform of the NBA. They are creating new partnerships every day. Is this a company that we should invest in for the IPO? People laughed at the idea of investing in Amazon, Tesla, and FB when they first IPO'ed. Again, a company started by 3 college kids with zero experience overtook the "FAANGs" of delivery, and became the number 1 player in the market. They overtook Uber Eats which already had billions of dollars in its pocket and top engineers/marketing. What gives???

#doordash #uber #grubhub #yelp #postmates

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  • Not at all, jp picked them as the winner. Every genz and millennial has a chase sapphire or reserve so automatically uses doordash. It would almost be stupid to use anything else.
    Dec 6, 2020 7
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  • By offering no delivery fee via a cheap monthly membership and bleeds their investors to death.
    Dec 6, 2020 2
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      bromance23

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      bromance23
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      This doesn't answer my point. Uber, Postmates, and Grubhub all have their own monthly subscription too. How did DoorDash overtake Uber and Grubhub?
      Dec 6, 2020
    • I didn't know Uber and grubhub have one, I used postmates two years ago and their service fee was so high I stopped using them after one try. Grubhub is more expansive than door dash, I tried to order from both multiple times and ended up use door dash everytime. Ubereats has the shortest UI, sometimes it takes 5 seconds for a page to update. So I mostly use doordash now
      Dec 6, 2020
  • Uber
    bogota

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    bogota
    Suburban focus won in a pandemic market, and they prioritized bigger baskets. All good moves, but not sure if this will scale. I’ll wait for a year ...
    Dec 6, 2020 0
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    Jwlp4w20

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    Jwlp4w20
    DoorDash has the better name. Uber is some cab service, who wants cab drivers handling your food? What is Seemless? Grubhub is everyone's mom's delivery service - like going to Yelp for reviews.

    Postmates is so confusing, isn't that a company that competes against UPS, FEDEX, and USPS? That is what I think when people say "Postmates", what the hell is a Postmates... isn't it a company like DHL?
    Dec 6, 2020 1
    • Lyft
      ubercab

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      ubercab
      Postmates over-diversified. You could get an iPhone delivered from the Apple Store.

      Postmates under-invested in customer service. When a delivery goes wrong, people want compensation. I ordered a pizza that came 3 hours late (not on a special day like Super Bowl or anything like that) and Postmates refused to offer even a token credit for my next order.

      Seamless had a great reputation in NYC Manhattan but that operating model, which includes couriers doing deliveries purely on foot, does not work in other places.

      Grubhub didn't innovate in time. When DoorDash and UberEats offered live GPS order tracking, all Grubhub could do was tell you to wait with your phone in hand for the next 30-120 minutes while your order is prepared.
      Dec 6, 2020