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.
不久前我就坐在你们的位子上我是CS专业的2014级毕业生,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.
有些同学可能还不知道我们公司我们为城市打造按需送货网络体系
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.
先给大家看这张几个月前拍的照片当晚我们刚完成A轮融资
And I took this photo as I was walking back to where I lived.
我在回寝室的路上拍的
I actually lived in Robly at the time, on campus.
当时我还住校
And, I took this photo because I realized just how ridiculous
我之所以拍下这张照片
the combinations of things I was holding in my hand at that time, and I was holding my CS 247 homework.
是因为我手里的这些东西是多么奇葩的组合啊有CS 247课程的作业
And then, I had my tax forms,since it was April and I had to fill out taxes.
有税单那时是四月份,我得填税单
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.
有超速罚单还有红杉资本跟我签订的1500万美元的注资合同
And that kind of summarizes just how ridiculous our journey has been,you know, starting at Stanford.
这个奇葩组合恰好反映了我们的创业历程我们在斯坦福上学时开始创业
Doing this while I was at Stanford,and then transitioning this into an actual startup,
边创业边读书并发展成了一个真正的公司
and I want to share that story with you today.
今天我就将这个创业历程与大家分享
It all began two years ago, actually,in a macaron store, it was my junior year at Stanford.
要从两年前说起当时我在斯坦福读大三
This was fall quarter, and at that time, I was really passionate about, you know,
秋季学期我对为小商户
how do you build technology for small business owners?
提供技术支持很感兴趣
And I sat down Chloe, the owner of, you know, Chantal Guillon,a macaron store in Palo Alto at that time.
在帕罗奥多市我和一家面包房的老板Chloe坐下来交流
Just interviewing her, you know,trying to get feedback on this product prototype we'd been working on.
针对我们正在做的一个产品向她征询意见