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I never used doordash and yet they own 50% market share. How? That's incredible... In big cities I always hear of people Uber-ing food, and never once I heard people doing a door dash? Is dashing a verb? In the article it highlights how airbnb-ing is part of our vocab. For example you say "I am just gonna airbnb it", so that really tells me that airbnb have done their marketing well... Unlike doordash, "uber it" and "get it on uber eats" is commonly heard...so I wonder...playing in hard mode is great but only when you win. Who's truly winning?

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We all live in a bubble. Your experience isn't invalid, but lots of other people have very different experiences, so it's difficult to draw conclusions from what you hear about in your daily life.

Interesting! I’ve never used Uber Eats and friends do say “let’s just Doordash something”. Popularity around here seems to be Doordash > Caviar (acquired by Doordash) > GrubHub. My area of reference is SF & Oakland, California.

These things tend to be highly regional. I laughed when I read the “brand affinity” part of doordash’s S1. That’s completely in their own heads. These products are beyond commodity — the only brand that matters is the restaurant; no one cares what company brings it to you as long as it’s the cheapest/fastest, and MAYBE the most reliable.

Agree; in fact, I'd prefer the restaurant was bringing it themselves, so I only have to deal with the one entity.

The article did say that Door Dash has focused on more suburban areas while Uber focused on more urban areas.

I'm also surprised because in my experience Ubereats is always cheaper and lets you wait to tip until afterwards. Horrid Door Dash drivers wore my generosity thin real fast, but with Ubereats it can actually be performance based as it should be. It reflects in how unprofessional and entitled some Door Dash employees are. I wrote simple steps for getting tto my door and they'd tend to not read it, with one even saying something like "wah wah I'm not reading this huge paragraph" (it was maybe 15 words total). I should've been able to leave a negative tip for that one. The most basic inklings of work ethic seem to be lost on this doomed generation, or at least whoever is in the range of 20 years old right now.

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