It wasn't actually that long ago where I sat in your seats. I was class of 2014, graduated in CS, as well as my co-founder, Andy.
不久前我就坐在你們的位子上我是CS專業的2014級畢業生,我的合伙人Andy也是如此
And, for those of you who don't know what Doordash is,we're building an on-demand delivery network for local cities.
有些同學可能還不知道我們公司我們為城市打造按需送貨網絡體系
And I wanna start off with this photo that I took just a few months ago,and I think this was the night when we just raised our series A.
先給大家看這張幾個月前拍的照片當晚我們剛完成A輪融資
And I took this photo as I was walking back to where I lived.
我在回寢室的路上拍的
I actually lived in Robly at the time, on campus.
當時我還住校
And, I took this photo because I realized just how ridiculous
我之所以拍下這張照片
the combinations of things I was holding in my hand at that time, and I was holding my CS 247 homework.
是因為我手里的這些東西是多么奇葩的組合啊有CS 247課程的作業
And then, I had my tax forms,since it was April and I had to fill out taxes.
有稅單那時是四月份,我得填稅單
And then also that yellow speeding ticket,and then right below that was a $15 million dollar piece of paper I just signed from Sequoia.
有超速罰單還有紅杉資本跟我簽訂的1500萬美元的注資合同
And that kind of summarizes just how ridiculous our journey has been,you know, starting at Stanford.
這個奇葩組合恰好反映了我們的創業歷程我們在斯坦福上學時開始創業
Doing this while I was at Stanford,and then transitioning this into an actual startup,
邊創業邊讀書并發展成了一個真正的公司
and I want to share that story with you today.
今天我就將這個創業歷程與大家分享
It all began two years ago, actually,in a macaron store, it was my junior year at Stanford.
要從兩年前說起當時我在斯坦福讀大三
This was fall quarter, and at that time, I was really passionate about, you know,
秋季學期我對為小商戶
how do you build technology for small business owners?
提供技術支持很感興趣
And I sat down Chloe, the owner of, you know, Chantal Guillon,a macaron store in Palo Alto at that time.
在帕羅奧多市我和一家面包房的老板Chloe坐下來交流
Just interviewing her, you know,trying to get feedback on this product prototype we'd been working on.
針對我們正在做的一個產品向她征詢意見