"That's what we found when we met Wolt in 2021-a team with very shared values, which to me is probably the hardest thing to get right in M&A,"
"M&A is very easy to get right on a sheet of paper; it's very hard to get right in practice."
"Candidly, it's mostly been filled with lots of pain and suffering,"
DoorDash emphasizes partnering with operating teams that share its values and views cultural alignment as the hardest part of M&A. The company completed acquisitions including SevenRooms for $1.2 billion and Symbiosys for roughly $175 million, and agreed to acquire Deliveroo for about $3.9 billion, pending regulatory approval and a planned close in Q4 2025. DoorDash has pursued autonomous delivery since 2017, developing drones and sidewalk robots while facing technical and operational challenges across hardware, software, networks, and service quality. Early commercial pilots with Coco Robotics and Alphabet's Wing demonstrate initial progress. DoorDash builds and deploys AI agents both in-house and with partners.
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