DoorDash, Inc.
Leadership History
2 leaders · 2013 to present
Tony Xu is the CEO of DoorDash, in the role since 2013.
| Name | Role | From | To | Years in role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Xu | Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chair | 2013 | Present | 13 |
| Stanley Tang | Co-Founder | 2013 | 2024 | 11 |
DoorDash is the largest food delivery platform in the United States by consumer spending share and one of the largest in the world. Headquartered in San Francisco, it coordinates millions of independent Dashers who deliver restaurant meals, groceries, convenience items and retail goods. It completed 3.2 billion total orders in 2025 and 970 million in Q2 2026, and operates in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Australia directly and across Europe and parts of the Middle East and Central Asia through Wolt and Deliveroo. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
DoorDash runs a three-sided marketplace. Consumers pay delivery and service fees (or a DashPass membership at $9.99 a month in the U.S.), merchants pay commissions that ranged from 15% to 30% under its U.S. Basic, Plus and Premier plans, and independent Dashers are paid per delivery plus 100% of tips. On top of that, DoorDash sells sponsored listings and brand ads, white-label delivery through DoorDash Drive, and software such as Storefront, Bbot and SevenRooms. In FY2025 revenue equalled about 13.4% of the $102.0 billion in Marketplace gross order value (GOV), which is the company's effective take rate.
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chair
2013 – Present
13 years (current)
Prioritised suburbs and smaller U.S. cities over crowded downtowns, launched DashPass in 2018, took DoorDash public in December 2020, expanded into grocery and retail, and made Wolt, SevenRooms and Deliveroo the basis of a global strategy.
Built DoorDash from a Palo Alto student project into a company with $13.7 billion in 2025 revenue and GAAP profitability since 2024.
Co-Founder
2013 – 2024
11 years
Co-founded DoorDash and led early product; later led DoorDash Labs.
Tang co-founded DoorDash in 2013 at Stanford, helped run the first Palo Alto delivery pilots and drove early product strategy, later leading DoorDash Labs' work on autonomous delivery and new products.
These officers report to the chief executive and are not part of the CEO timeline above.
DoorDash's challenges are regulatory, competitive and executional. Dasher classification and minimum-pay rules (such as those in New York City and Seattle) raise costs, merchants push back on commissions, consumers are fee-sensitive, and Uber Eats remains a strong rival. Integrating Deliveroo and SevenRooms while funding autonomy and AI projects has also weighed on earnings: Q2 2026 GAAP net income fell to $200 million from $285 million a year earlier even as revenue rose 36%.
Tony Xu is DoorDash's co-founder, CEO and chair. Born in Nanjing, China, he moved to the U.S. as a child, grew up in Champaign, Illinois, studied at UC Berkeley and earned a Stanford MBA before co-founding DoorDash in 2013.
Under Tony Xu, DoorDash became the U.S. delivery leader in 2019, went public in December 2020, acquired Caviar, Wolt, SevenRooms and Deliveroo, reached GAAP profitability in 2024 and grew 2025 revenue to $13.7 billion.
Tony Xu co-founded DoorDash with Stanford classmates Stanley Tang, Andy Fang and Evan Moore. Tang later led DoorDash Labs, Fang worked on engineering, and Moore left early and became an investor at Khosla Ventures.
DoorDash's leadership includes CEO and chair Tony Xu and CFO Ravi Inukonda, who presents the company's quarterly results and guidance alongside Xu.
WeDash is a DoorDash program in which corporate employees, including executives and Tony Xu, periodically make deliveries as Dashers to understand merchant and courier problems firsthand.
Tony Xu maintains voting control through Class B common shares, providing executive independence to make long-term capital investments in local logistics, international expansion (Wolt), and autonomous delivery technology without short-term quarterly pressures.
In addition to leading DoorDash, Tony Xu was appointed to the Board of Directors of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) in January 2022, providing strategic guidance on technology, local commerce, and global marketplace scaling.
Tony Xu is known for focusing on operational detail and customers over competitors. In an August 2026 Fortune interview he said he once thought DoorDash might make $100 million and urged founders to dream bigger.
Tony Xu is the co-founder and CEO. He is an incredibly aggressive, execution-obsessed executive. Under his leadership, DoorDash was famous for moving faster than any competitor, often listing restaurants on their app without the restaurant's permission just to capture the market demand.
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