If there’s a forefather of the crowded family of on-demand delivery startups that now jam the tech hubs of the United States, Asia, and Europe, it’s SeamlessWeb. Finger was among the first to see that the internet could do more than connect people with information and one another in a purely digital realm; it could also efficiently move physical things in the real world. He understood that if it worked for food, it could work for other things. And he drew up plans to take advantage.

