[bitpow]

> can he offer a reason for why Doordash can be losing so much money

Just speculation, but Doordash is obviously loosing some money due to poorly implemented "tests" like these, and who knows what other experiments-at-a-loss they are running.

Maybe if they toned down their "web scraping auto delivery option" program, and who knows what else, they could show a profit (and maybe they know this). But why bother if you can get away with it, and something truly innovative and profitable may come out of it.