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DoorDash CEO Tony Xu once thought his $87 billion company would only make $100 million. He tells founders to be ‘greedy’ and dream bigger

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04.08.2026

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DoorDash CEO Tony Xu once thought his $87 billion company would only make $100 million. He tells founders to be ‘greedy’ and dream bigger

In the earliest stages of building a business, founders may shy away from dreaming big, and make conservative estimates of how successful they’ll be. But DoorDash cofounder and CEO Tony Xu is now warning entrepreneurs not to cap their ambitions, like he once did.

“I think a lot of times you kind of, as an entrepreneur, have to take the greedy algorithm,” Xu recently said on the Uncapped with Jack Altman podcast. “You have to keep going all the way and seeing if there’s more.”

It’s a lesson he’s learned when trying........

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