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Doug McMillon

04/24/25

@ Stanford Graduate School of Business

I'm excited about saving customers more time, like with our home delivery service that brings groceries directly into their kitchens or garages.

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View From The Top with Doug McMillon, President and CEO of Walmart

@ Stanford Graduate School of Business

View From The Top with Doug McMillon, President and CEO of Walmart

04/24/25

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Doug McMillon

04/24/25

@ Stanford Graduate School of Business

Money is important, but so is time; we aim to make shopping more delightful by saving customers time.

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By automating services, we can reclaim our time to do the things we love, similar to how Uber allowed people to stop driving themselves.

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Our growth demonstrates that we've figured out how to make consumer deliveries work, and our driver network and logistics software allow us to expand beyond food delivery.

Aadit Palicha

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We realized that we had to be at the customer's doorstep to improve retention, so we started doing initial deliveries ourselves to understand the customer experience better.

Apoorva Mehta

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In 2012, while everything else was being bought online, grocery shopping remained inefficient, which motivated me to create a solution.

Aadit Palicha

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To truly solve the grocery delivery problem for customers, we needed to own the entire process from backend to delivery.

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The insight was to do 10-minute delivery while also building out the full stack of commerce, allowing us to run logistics and maintain better quality control.

Waseem Alshikh

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The biggest factor that excites our customers is the potential for time savings when deploying AI agents, often quantified as a 10-30% reduction in time across teams.