# How To Build The Future: Tony Xu

**Author:** Garry Tan
**Type:** Video
**URL:** https://www.ycombinator.com/library/MJ-how-to-build-the-future-tony-xu
**YouTube ID:** 3N3TnaViyjk

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Twelve years after starting DoorDash, co-founder & CEO Tony Xu and the entire team still personally make deliveries each
year, staying true to their core value: customer obsession.  
  
Today, DoorDash is the largest local commerce platform in the US.  
  
Tony explains how their long-term vision won — helping create a new market while surviving near death and a global
pandemic along the way.

