Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
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Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang

B1IntermediateJuly 23, 202649 min

DoorDash is not just a delivery company. From its inception, co-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang operated it as a robotics and autonomy company. Andy and Stanley join Sarah Guo to explain how autonomous tech and AI are reshaping consumer habits, commerce, and delivery. Andy and Stanley talk about the rollout of Ask DoorDash, a natural-language interface that’s driving both restaurant discovery and larger grocery orders. They also discuss Dot, their in-house autonomous delivery robot that has operated in Phoenix for over two years, and how it highlights the operational and hardware challenges they have faced and solved in...

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Hi, listeners. Welcome back to No Priors. Today, I'm here with Andy Feng and Stanley Ting, co-founders at DoorDash. We talk about how you can ask DoorDash in natural language for food and groceries, what that means for the future of agentic commerce, their delivery robot DOT, how DoorDash has been a robotics company for the last eight years, the data advantages of

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their network and what all this means for 9 million dashers and 3 billion deliveries a year. Welcome. Andy, Stanley, thank you so much for being here. Real excited to talk to you about all the crazy stuff DoorDash is doing. I thought we could start with what's going on with agentic commerce at DoorDash. I feel like you have one of the largest rollouts of actually using AI to

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change what people consume. Yeah. So what was the backstory here? I mean, it started a couple years ago honestly in terms of like our attempts to try to make a play here it actually originally we were bullish on voice as the modality um that ended up not being the thing that ended up not being the thing but maybe it's will in the future but just that didn't really land but the thing

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