> There are also companies like Sweetgreen, the salad company that has tried to position itself as an automation company that serves salads on the side. Indeed, Sweetgreen has tried to dabble in a variety of tech, including AI and robots
Please just make me a good salad.
Could you imagine being offered a ticket to Arbyfest or Jambacon?
Like you said, please just make a good salad.
I got Google’s DPA update email included a number of Uber’s Model training side gigs and analytic products. I’m guessing this all came out of the Self Driving car project, but it’s another - albeit less goofy - data point of “We’re and AI Company but we do X for money.”
I feel like I see a few of these every month.
A few years ago Foresquare realized their business model was less profitable than that of the data aggregator they used so they bought the aggregator and basically became that company given the other hooks they have. I sort of wonder if that’s what is running through some of these companies’ C suite meetings.
Good CEOs say they're a {whatever pumps the stock price/gets us the most VC interest} company, but continue to invest and excel in being a {core competency / original business model} company.
Bad CEOs confuse the Kool Aid for water.
My personal theory is we’re experiencing people who came into senior leadership in the 2010s and could make money even with poor choices by riding the hype cycle and we’re all paying for their one year of experience ten times.
The unpredictability of salad composition is what makes our products so unique and loved by people all around the world!*
*While on average it's a very good salad, there's a non zero chance that the salad may contain asbestos, plutonium, chalk, antimonium, rubber, NaN, steel rods
I don't want any of those other ones, but I do think that everything else being equal, it's generally a good thing that my salad ingredients can't be directly serialized to float64.
They do the robotics part, and then remotely operate them (though on the paper it is officially "hybrid").
No; I’m not paying $15+ for a salad. But; plenty of people do.
(and fwiw lots of people will pay a lot for a good salad…)
Anything after that doesn't matter.
No.
> sudo Please just make me a good salad.
Ok.