Company

DoorDash

Type: public
Ticker: DASH · NASDAQ
Market value: $100B

DoorDash is public, listed as DASH on NASDAQ, in Food and grocery.

What it sells: DoorDash delivery, DashPass, grocery delivery.

In the language of this map it serves 2 solutions — Food delivery apps and Grocery delivery and bulk retail — which between them relieve 5 human frictions.

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Sells

Food delivery appsEarly adulthood
Grocery delivery and bulk retailParenthood

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

Feed yourself for the first time, with no time and no skillEarly adulthood
Coordinate four schedules, three meals, and a dozen activitiesParenthood
Two people must eat together, every dayHousehold formation
Feed four or five people on a budget, every dayParenthood
Eat well on a fixed income, often aloneRetirement

Trends favouring it

Gig, fractional, and portfolio workAlready large; the question is how it resolves, not whether it happens.
Living aloneAlready large; the question is how it resolves, not whether it happens.

Trends pressuring it

Union revival and rising wage floorsDirection genuinely disputed. Reasonable people expect opposite outcomes.