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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Jan 2015

    Why are people surprised at Instacart's success? It's so basic. Uber moves you. Dropbox keeps your data. Instacart brings you food.

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      2. Semil‏Verified account @semil 4 Jan 2015
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        @paulg they may also not be aware of the sheer size of those markets.

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      3. Miles Suter‏ @WahWhoWah 4 Jan 2015
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        @semil @paulg $600bn

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      4. Max Mullen‏ @Max 4 Jan 2015
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        @wahwhowah @semil @paulg and that's just Supermarkets…in America! ;)

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      2. Dave Kasper‏ @dkasper 4 Jan 2015
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        @paulg because many failed before them?

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      1. Lizelle van Vuuren‏ @heylizelle 4 Jan 2015
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        "Why are people surprised at Instacart's success? It's so basic. Uber moves you. Dropbox keeps your data. Instacart brings you food.” @paulg

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      2. nick kokonas‏ @nickkokonas 4 Jan 2015
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        @paulg solely that execution is difficult and has failed (sort of) previously.

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      1. Kevin Moore‏ @Kevrmoore 9 Jan 2015
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        @paulg you are oversimplifying incredibly complicated businesses with almost flawless execution

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      1. Tom Le Bree‏ @tomlebree 4 Jan 2015
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        @paulg @richardtitus It's the age old tension between convenience and laziness. It's so wrong but so right. Hence people are talking.

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      1. Brian Hart‏ @bbhart 4 Jan 2015
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        @paulg I was mostly surprised they needed to know who all my FB friends are before they could deliver groceries to me.

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      1. Headless Hogan‏ @AlanHogan 4 Jan 2015
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        @paulg many people don’t think deeper than one word: WebVan. But Instacart looked deeper.

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      1. Morris H Wheeler‏ @mowheeler 4 Jan 2015
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        @paulg maybe because Webvan also brought food and was largest bankruptcy of Web1.0

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      1. Jayson Elliot  🍄‏ @JaysonElliot 4 Jan 2015
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        @paulg The surprise probably comes from the myriad corpses of delivery startups that littered the highway before Instacart got it right.

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      2. Kartik  👨🏾‍💻‏ @ayyar 4 Jan 2015
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        @paulg I use Instacart, the canned response I get when I talk about it is "another Webvan ?" (despite their approach being very different ).

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      1. Marvin‏ @MarvinJMathew 14 Feb 2015
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        @paulg @apoorva_mehta can't beat that.

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      1. 島本佳紀‏ @yoshiki71 31 Jan 2015
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        シンプル @paulg:Why are people surprised at Instacart's success?It's so basic.Uber moves you.Dropbox keeps your data. Instacart brings you food.

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      1.  🐜 💩 💛‏ @ultimape 17 Jan 2015
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        @paulg @Max That makes me think that the next big disruption for consumers is going to come out of the refuse industry.

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