Mitchell Hartman

I've always worked in that sort of space.

If you get to build it to the full fruition, you would see your machine driving around, how it interacts with the foliage, with the roads, with the people.

It very much speaks to the idea of being someone who has done something versus someone who is doing something.

It's still a very young field.

And so seeing a successful company able to go through and deal with the whole monetization tree of building out from there is something that's really exciting to see.

Today, I opened up the DoorDash app and did some shopping at the Dollar Tree a couple miles from my house in Baltimore.

We need like a sippy cup for the baby.

$1.25 for two is pretty good.

I also bought some snacks, toilet paper.

The total bill was $5.25.

Definitely a deal.

Fees added another $6.48, plus the tip, and I ended up paying more to have the stuff delivered than for the actual stuff.

It arrived in about 20 minutes.

David Smith, my dasher, says a lot of his deliveries these days are from dollar stores.

I talked to him on my breezy front stoop.

It's convenient.

You might be at work, and you can't leave the house, but you need these items.

Smith doesn't get stuff delivered himself, but he says his wife does it all the time.

And dollar store customers need delivery.

Brian Eshelman is with Alex Partners.