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DoorDash Acquires Tele-Operations Startup Scotty

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Amir Efrati
· · Source: The Information

The top U.S. food-delivery apps have a lot of work to do before they stop burning through cash, but most of them still see fit to burn more by trying to develop tech that one day might remove their top “cost”—human drivers—from the equation. For DoorDash, that means hiring people who might help it develop or deploy food delivery vehicles. To that end, it acquired Scotty Labs, which spun out of...

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