DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M

Re:DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M by Marsymars on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:26PM (#20589326)

> I’m so confused by DoorDash’s sudden rise. I think I may have used it once. What is separating DoorDash from UberEats, Postmates, Grubhub etc?

Network effects are pretty strong. Locally, I don't know anyone who uses anything other than SkipTheDishes.

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Re:DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M by taktoa on Thursday August 01, 2019 @08:07PM (#20589576)

How are there network effects in delivery apps? It's a bipartite graph, and the number of restaurant companies is tiny compared to the number of users.

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Re:DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M by beefalo on Thursday August 01, 2019 @08:09PM (#20589590)

Once an app reaches critical mass for a location, the restaurants all go where the users are.

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Re:DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M by tootie on Thursday August 01, 2019 @08:04PM (#20589560)

So weird. I never even heard of that one. I've been using Seamless forever which was bought by GrubHub years ago but it has a strong brand in NYC.

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Re:DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M by aiddun on Thursday August 01, 2019 @08:50PM (#20589826)

+1 for Seamless in the city, at least within my family/close friends. Might be because NYC has a strong fast delivery network within most restaurants and doesn't truly need a decentralized delivery network. The big draw to these apps to most of my friends has been the delivery of previously undeliverable food (Chipotle, McDonalds etc).

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Re:DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M by bytematic on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:30PM (#20589351)

EatStreet or GrubHub here

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