DoorDash: Tony Xu

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In 2013, Tony Xu was brainstorming ideas for a business school project when he identified a problem he wanted to solve: food delivery.

For most restaurants, it was too costly and inefficient, leaving most of the market to pizza and Chinese.

Tony and his partners believed they could use technology to connect customers to drivers, who would deliver meals in every imaginable cuisine.

That idea grew into DoorDash, a company that's now delivered over 100 million orders from over 200,000 restaurants across the country.

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