DoorDash says its robotics and drone bets started eight years ago
garrytan · x · 2026-07-24
DoorDash says its robotics, drones, and AI bets are already built on experiments that started eight years ago, and the company frames them as a way to expand delivery capacity rather than replace Dashers.
The post comes from Garry Tan reposting a DoorDash hiring/vision thread that emphasizes autonomy, applied AI, and real-world operations at speed and scale.
Related event: DoorDash Founders Detail 8-Year Bet on Autonomous Delivery and AI(5 posts)→
More from Companies & People
- Anthropic mocked for warning of existential AI risk while pouring $750B into accelerating it — R4nsack · 2026-10-26
- Google expands paid News AI pilot to 400+ publications, adding CNN, FT, Axios, Forbes — thione · 2026-10-26
- Anthropic: junior tech hires fell from 27% to 9% as agent hours hit 6x employee hours — thione · 2026-10-26
- OpenAI to distribute frontier models and Codex through rival Google Cloud — thione · 2026-10-26
- Anthropic Believes Current Demand Is Only an Early Signal of What's Coming — cedric_chee · 2026-10-26
- Half the Fortune 500 Are Anthropic Customers Yet Spend Under 0.1% of Their Expenses — BenBajarin · 2026-10-26