The story
Stanford students posted restaurant menus online with their own phone number at PaloAltoDelivery.com. When orders came in, they drove them over themselves. Y Combinator followed, then the suburbs, then an IPO in 2020.
No. 037 · 2013 · Palo Alto
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Stanford kids, a PDF menu, and their own cellphones.
The last mile, on a Civic
Make my startup a legend- 1 Stanford, 2013. A shop owner has too many orders.
- 2 They post PDFs with their own phone numbers.
- 3 An order comes in mid-lecture.
- 4 They deliver it themselves.
- 5 The founders do every delivery.
- 6 Then YC bites.
- 7 Then suburbs. Then the country.
- 8 Your pad thai is a public company.
- Founders
- Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang and Evan Moore
- Founded
- 2013, Palo Alto
- What they do
- Food and grocery delivery.