BuzzFeed - Plenty of websites and apps will help you get a meal delivered. But Maple gets big-time Manhattan food cred from its chief culinary officer, Momofuku founder David Chang. Maple There's the open office, with bookcases filled with business tomes, standing desks, and exercise-balls-as-chairs. Then there's the venture capital funding and the dot-com veteran founders. But this is a company where more than half of the full-time, paid-with-benefits employees work preparing food or delivering it. Maple is a food startup launching today in Lower Manhattan, a place with no shortage of restaurant or food delivery options. A quick look on Seamless shows hundreds of places ready to deliver almost any cuisine imaginable; opening Yelp anywhere in Maple's delivery zone (for now, Manhattan below Chambers Street) will show dozens of restaurants within a few minutes' walk. It's a brutally competitive market, and Maple's founders, Caleb Merkl, Akshay Navle, and Will Gaybric
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