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Stanley Tang, Andy Fang, Tony Xu

Doordash Founders

Stanley Tang
Stanley Tang is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of DoorDash. DoorDash launched in Palo Alto and, as of May 2019, had expanded to more than 4,000 cities and offered a 340,000 selection of stores across the US and Canada. DoorDash has raised more than $700 million over several financing rounds from investors including Charles River Ventures, SV Angel, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, GIC, and Kleiner Perkins. The company is currently valued at more than $13 billion and is the largest third-party delivery service in the world.

 

Tang grew up in Hong Kong, and was an Amazon Best-Seller at the age of 14 years old when he authored a book called ‘eMillions,’ interviewing 14 of the world’s most successful Internet marketers about their rags-to-riches stories. He then moved to the Bay Area to study Computer Science at Stanford, where he met his co-founders Andy Fang and Tony Xu.

 

Tang works on moonshot projects at DoorDash, and passionate about topics that revolve around robotics, design, cities, and transportation. In his free time, Tang angel invests in various start ups, and started Bearcat Content with his partner Gloria Zhu to invest in unscripted content, documentaries, and entertainment companies.

 

Andy Fang
Andy Fang is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of DoorDash. DoorDash launched in Palo Alto and, as of May 2019, had expanded to more than 4,000 cities and offered a 340,000 selection of stores across the US and Canada. DoorDash has raised more than $700 million over several financing rounds from investors including Charles River Ventures, SV Angel, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, GIC, and Kleiner Perkins. The company is currently valued at more than $13 billion and is the largest third-party delivery service in the world.

 

Fang grew up in the Bay Area, and holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he met fellow co-founders Stanley Tang and Tony Xu.

 

Fang leads the engineering team, and is responsible for the overall product vision, technology roadmap and architectural direction of the DoorDash platform. His free time is dedicated to basketball.

 

Tony Xu
Tony Xu is the co-founder and CEO of DoorDash. Starting with restaurants, DoorDash is building the infrastructure and logistics platform to allow any local merchant to deliver. DoorDash launched in Palo Alto and, as of May 2019, had expanded to more than 4,000 cities and offered a 340,000 selection of stores across the US and Canada. DoorDash has raised more than $700 million over several financing rounds from investors including Charles River Ventures, SV Angel, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, GIC, and Kleiner Perkins. The company is currently valued at more than $13 billion and is the largest third-party delivery service in the world.

 

Xu’s family came to the U.S. from China in 1989 and settled in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Xu’s mother ran a Chinese restaurant to build up the funds to go to medical school. Xu’s father waited tables at a University of Illinois on-campus restaurant to defray the costs of his aeronautical engineering studies. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a B.S. with High Honors in Industrial Engineering and a MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, Xu worked as a business analyst for McKinsey & Co., as a corporate strategy consultant for EBay and PayPal, in business development at technology firm RedLaser, and spent time at Square before founding DoorDash.