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Instacard have released a public dataset[1] on their orders, so it should be even easier to verify this claim. From what I could find in some analysis[2] of thi
by FinnKuhn 4mo ago
Instacard have released a public dataset[1] on their orders, so it should be even easier to verify this claim. From what I could find in some analysis[2] of this dataset around 100k orders per day and not per minute seems accurate.
I assume they are referring to how many database requests they have due to customers orders or a similar metric and just worded it poorly.
[1] https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/psparks/instacart-market-basket-analysis https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/psparks/instacart-market-bas...
[2] https://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/284199_5c498037acc64051862e0829c2702ce5.html https://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/284199_5c498037...
- aeyes 4mo agoThis data set was released years before the Covid hypergrowth phase which they are referring to.
- FinnKuhn 4mo agoThat's fair as the Kaggle dataset[1] is from 2017. Even assuming orders scaled with revenue (which grew to $1.5B in 2020[2]), you'd only reach a few hundred orders/minute at the pandemic peak (which lines up with the calculation above via a different method). So I still assume the original comment isn't referring to actual orders placed. [1] https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/psparks/instacart-market-bas https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/psparks/instacart-market-bas... [2] https://fortune.com/2022/05/18/what-to-know-instacart-ipo/ https://fortune.com/2022/05/18/what-to-know-instacart-ipo/
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