DoorDash YC Application

Summer 2013Public

DoorDash went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2013 batch as a Consumer company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2013
Industry: ConsumerFood and Beverage
Team size: 8600
Status: Public
Launched: 2013

Founders

Tony XuFounder/CEO
Andy FangFounder
Stanley TangFounder

What DoorDash does

Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants in more than 600 cities across the United States and Canada. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about - one dash at a time. Read more at blog.doordash.com, and find us on Glassdoor.

DoorDash's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

DoorDash, Summer 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

DoorDash (started as Palo Alto Delivery)

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Restaurant delivery.

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

Last-mile delivery for local restaurants that do not have their own drivers. Customers order from restaurants they could not previously get delivered, and we handle the logistics: dispatching drivers, routing, and timing so food arrives hot. We start with restaurants and expand to delivering anything in a city.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

Palo Alto, USA / San Francisco, USA.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We started on the Stanford campus and in Palo Alto where we can run the operation hands-on, and the Bay Area gives us the density and talent to expand city by city.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real DoorDash YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from DoorDash's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like DoorDash would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.