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Background:Sprig is an app for on demand food delivery in San Francisco! Here's the link to download the app on iOS: Sprig: Dinner on Demand, and here's the link to their Yelp page. Sprig has two main competitors, Spoonrocket and Munchery. Here's their latest TechCrunch article: Sprig Raises $10M From Greylock To Bring Healthy, Inexpensive Meals To Your Door.Introduction:I'll attempt to answer this question from conversations with Sprig employees in addition to my notes from attending this event: The Story of Sprig with Gagan Biyani. Their CEO is Gagan Biyani. Having run operations at Lyft, his company is attempting to be the "Uber for Food." For more information about "Uber for X" startups, see Casey Kerr's answer to Uber Equivalents: What startups are working on "Uber for X?"Marketplace:Sprig aspires to be a multi-billion dollar company.They're not profitable and are not trying to be at all. They have tons of money, having raised over $10 million.According to Gagan, 50% of Sprig's customers are tech people. Others are professionals, such as doctors, lawyers, etc. Demographic is mostly age 20's and 30's.According to Gagan, food is trillion dollar market. More specifically, food delivery is $200 billion market.Delivery:Sprig uses the following types of driver transportation: scooters (which they recommend), bikes, motorcycles, and cars.For dinner delivery, the food is cooked by the chefs in a central location around 3pm. The food is cooked and delivered in coolers to hubs before the delivery time that starts at 5:30pm.For delivery operations, Sprig uses hubs all around the city. As of Feb/March '14, they have 4 or 5 of these hubs in San Francisco.There are 3 big food coolers in each hub containing 3 different types of food. A hub manager with a computer takes the order and he or she throws your food in an oven (or microwave) for about 3 minutes.The delivery person picks up the order from the hub and has access to the backend of the Sprig app. The address comes up, the deliverers click the map icon and get auto-mapped with 1 click. Pretty slick :)Delivery drivers gets $16 per hour, plus $2 per meal delivered. They work directly for Sprig, unlike Uber drivers.You can request a certain delivery driver. Drivers get $50 referral fees to recruit a new driver. The men and women delivery drivers have different suits to deliver food.More Info:Sprig compares itself to Bay Area tech companies trying to make big shifts in marketplaces, such as Coursera, Airbnb, Etsy, etc.Sprig uses all compostable packaging.According to Gagan, 7% of their customers are repeat. He expects that in the future, 70-80% of their customer base will be repeat.Sprig obsesses over quality of data. They email surveys to a lot of their customers and keep trying to improve. They ask about their most favorite dish, least favorites, etc.Their chicken sold well initially, but now they sell mostly shredded beef.Their growth strategy is primarily PR and word of mouth. 70% of their orders/customers come from word of mouth.They've considered adding to the menu, but won't add things like salad or soup until they nail the meal entry course first. They are currently obsessing about entrees.They deliver a tiny dessert with every meal.As of Feb/March 2014, Sprig is doing 500+ orders a night. They're experiencing lots of growth - 23% a week growth in orders.

Disclaimer: This is not an answer to the stated question. However, the content is relevant in the context of the other answers available here, and so in the interest of discoverability, this is the right place to share it.I was talking to one of the current DC Hub admins today, and realized some of this lore could be interesting for other people too. For context, I was SourceCode, an admin in 2012–2013. While Vishnu's answer is an excellent description of the experience itself, mine is a story of how I got that position, and (for historical record) what I did once I become an admin. It isn’t a complete story, since I’m talking about myself, and not the other admins, but I hope it is nevertheless enlightening.Back in 1st year, I used to watch a lot of TV shows and anime, and ended up downloading as many series as I could find. Every time a new episode of the shows we were watching was released (How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, etc), we would wait for seniors to (mysteriously) download and share it. Given my limited social skills/interactions, I didn't really know any of them, and so I couldn't ask them to download things that only I seemed to want (X-Files being the specific series I was watching that was missing from the LAN). The MyDC website at the time only allowed announcements , and so during the summer break before my 3rd year, I created a new web interface for unofficial Gamedrone hub, with the ability to request for content in addition to announcing it. Soon after, they made me an admin there … although I don’t actually remember using any of the privileges. Seeing the “SourceCode the admin of this hub is now online” announcements was enough to kept my ego satiated.Meanwhile, I used to read articles on Hacker News about how people were building the latest hotness in “hackathons”, and it always bugged me that the event didn’t involve any real “hacking”. So I decided to use all the knowledge I got from Nettech’s Network Management course (which had just completed a few weeks ago), and design a game where you had to actually hack a server. In order to get approval to use it as an event in Bitotsav 2012, I shared it with Gourav Roy (x77a1), and then watched bemusedly as he decimated the challenge in minutes (instead of taking hours like I had intended) using a technique that I hadn’t even thought of. But the seniors liked it, and they supported us in conducting the contest. They even printed the name of the game on T-shirts, one of which I’m wearing as I type this answer! Yes, they were awesome.Setting up the contest involved configuring various services on multiple virtual machines, which I had to do many times to make sure everything was set up without any mistakes. And so when Pratyush Verma (VacuumHead), (Machinist) & Vinit Kumar (Volvo) conducted the interviews for the positions of official DC Hub admins, this entire learning experience was invaluable. I remember being scared as I’d bombed the only other interview I’d experienced before (so no Directi internship for me), but things went well and finally, we got the job!As soon as my 4th year began, I formatted the hard disk of the DC Hub server, reinstalled the latest version of Ubuntu, and set up with all the services we wanted. During the holidays, I had built from scratch a new web interface for DC and associated Verlihub plugins, to add a series of new features like the "last few posts on main chat", group chat, offline messaging, a proper complaints system, etc. A significant change was the introduction of level-based privileges, encouraging people to contribute to the DC Hub ecosystem to unlock special "powers". But the most controversial addition was a referral-based authentication system designed to prevent the creation of fake accounts. People weren't happy, but I was willing to be the bad guy for a little while, since IMO the end result was worth it. I remember formulating a response to an angry email from a senior, explaining the rationale behind these changes. And it looks like these features continue to exist even now.Additionally, over the next month, when I should have been preparing for interviews (although in retrospect, things turned out fine), I spent my time on a personal project. It was also a time when I was experimenting with alternative sleep schedules, which meant that I used to sleep as soon as I returned from classes (sleeping in classes was a given), wake up around 11pm, and then work through the night. Those are some of my favorite college memories: listening to Lindsey Stirling's Transcendence during sunrise, and trying to figure out why my program had like 42 extra threads that I hadn't intended to create. The end result was a python-based dc-client, which I then used to reincarnate SheriffBot (the story of the original can be found in one of the other answers here).Although there weren’t any major changes during the rest of year (as I was busy with other projects), I should provide closure with my original motivation for getting into all this. I continued to collect/download and organize all the TV series I was even remotely interested in, occasionally writing scripts to automate the tedious parts. I estimate if I connected all my external hard-disks, the total content shared would be like 5TB. For what it’s worth, it was a good investment, since my parents/sister watch some of those shows even now (years after I left college). Turns out this entire story accidentally ended up as the means to this end :P