Stanley Tang
Co-founder and Head of DoorDash Labs
Description
I’m Stanley Tang, cofounder of DoorDash and head of DoorDash Labs, our robotics and automation division. Born and raised in Hong Kong, I moved to the U.S. to study computer science at Stanford, where the idea for DoorDash took shape and grew from a campus project into a leading platform for local commerce. I’m focused on advancing the future of logistics through technology—exploring robotics, autonomous systems and the future of last-mile delivery. I’m looking for hackers, entrepreneurs and hardware/robotics engineers to join my team; email me at stanley [at] doordash [dot] com if you're interested!
Suggested Questions
- What about your upbringing made you spot things before others, or was it just straight curiosity?
- In 2013, people thought food delivery was not a great business... were you overwhelmed by the mission or not even thinking about that?
- What’s the point where you switch over from doing things that don’t scale to operationalizing with software?
- How do you think about balancing speed and quality when you need speed to survive but quality not to lose consumers?
- Is the iteration loop the same in robotics and automation, or does it differ since it’s more expensive and slower?