Six years ago, the restaurant industry wasn鈥檛 exactly teeming with ideas about how to get takeout food delivered more quickly to customers. But听Phil Dumontet 鈥�09鈥攆resh from commencement at the Carroll School of Management鈥攚as putting his head to the question.
That year, he launched a delivery service,听, with freelance drivers and a nimble fleet of bikes, scooters, and eventually Smart Cars. Since then, Dashed has mushroomed into the largest restaurant delivery business in the Northeast.
Now, Dashed and its founder are winning applause and recognition beyond that region or the food delivery sector.听贵辞谤产别蝉听magazine recently unveiled its annual 鈥溾�� list of America鈥檚 most important young entrepreneurs, and making the cut was 28-year-old Phil Dumontet.
In its citation,听Forbes听said: 鈥淒umontet鈥檚 Dashed provides rapid delivery鈥攗nder 40 minutes via Smart Car, bike, or scooter鈥攆or more than 800 restaurants that don鈥檛 have their own services, including Bertucci鈥檚, PF Chang鈥檚, and Pinkberry. In 2014 the company brought in $7.5 million in revenue.鈥�
Dumontet was not the only Boston College alum to make the list. Also spotted were two graduates of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences:听Staff Sheehan 鈥�11, who 鈥渄iscovered a new kind of industrial material called a heterogenized homogenous catalyst鈥� (according to听Forbes), and who founded Catalytic Innovations; and听Akash Chougule 鈥�12, deputy director of policy at Americans for Prosperity. Chougule was cited in the category of Law & Policy entrepreneurship.
Last year, included in 鈥�30 under 30鈥� was a pair of Carroll School alums:听Nicholas Rellas 鈥�13听补苍诲听Justin Robinson 鈥�11. They are cofounders of听, an app for local liquor-store deliveries. More recently, in December, Drizly was named by听BostInno听as one of the 鈥�,鈥� people and organizations driving Boston鈥檚 innovation economy.
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