The critical role of storytelling in a startup's journey, highlighting how a compelling narrative can significantly impact its trajectory and success.
This video emphasizes the critical role of storytelling in a startup's journey, highlighting how a compelling narrative can significantly impact its trajectory and success. It suggests that a single impactful delivery of a story can be a transformative event for a startup.
I was the first DoorDash driver ever. >> Really? >> Yeah, dead serious. >> For real? >> Some I'm working at Papa John's in Palo Alto and coming out of the Papa John's got my [ __ ] Papa John's hat on, you know. And I there's like this Asian dude like standing like looking at me. I'm like, "What's up, dude?" He's kind of awkward, dude, but like I'm like, "Okay, this guy's just like kind of standing here." And he comes up to me he's like, "I have a job offer for you." I'm like, "What?" Like very strange. Like what's this dude like about to do? Is he about to like offer to like cut off my hands or some [ __ ] you know? Like this is And he's like, "Hey, my name's Tony and we have a house right nearby here and we started this app called" It was It was called um like he was like it's like doordash.com. Like it wasn't called like DoorDash right at
this time. And [clears throat] I'm like, "Okay, like surely." He's like, "I'll pay you more than Papa John's." Like and this app's going to blow up. It's going to be like people are going to do food delivery off this thing. I was like, "Okay." So I didn't like fully quit Papa John's at that point, but I went and met up with him. And he took me on a delivery. So it was actual Tony Xu. >> The billionaire. >> Um and it was this guy Stanley in this house and Evan Moore, all these creators of DoorDash, like the dudes who created DoorDash. They're just in this house in Palo Alto, a bunch of computers everywhere. And it was like you would get the email of the order to your phone at like get some email address and I'd go to these restaurants in Palo Alto. He like knew all the people in Palo Alto cuz that's where he started it. And I was the first DoorDash driver, bro. Besides like
him, like he was the first DoorDash DoorDash driver, but insane. >> Dude, if only he would have asked you for an investment instead. >> Bro, if I would could have just been like just >> Pay me like pay me like $4 an hour or whatever the minimum and then just pay me in stock. >> Dude. >> But I didn't know. I was like, "This dude's Who knows?" He was driving around some Honda. And I was like, "Tony, shout out to you, man."