Dianwoda
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Dianwoda (点我达) was a Hangzhou-based on-demand delivery and logistics marketplace founded in 2015. It specialized in short-distance delivery services and provided outsourced last-mile delivery for other logistics providers, with corporate clients including ZTO Express, YTO Express, Alibaba's food-delivery service Ele.me and Watsons. The company claimed more than 3 million registered delivery workers serving 1 million vendors and 100 million consumers in 300 cities. Alibaba was an early investor, and in July 2018 Cainiao Network invested $290 million to take control of the company.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Dianwoda was founded in Hangzhou in 2015 as an on-demand short-distance delivery platform, with Alibaba as an early investor.
- Cainiao takeover
In July 2018, Alibaba's logistics arm Cainiao Network invested $290 million to take control of Dianwoda, coordinating its short-distance delivery business including one-hour Tmall delivery and 30-minute Hema food delivery.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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