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My favourite SoftBank investment was the automated pizza van thing. I can only hope SoftBank had shares in a failing robotics company that it needed to funnel
by easytiger 6y ago
My favourite SoftBank investment was the automated pizza van thing.
I can only hope SoftBank had shares in a failing robotics company that it needed to funnel money to
- Danieru 6y agoThe pizza van guy was active here on hacker news right? I remember seeing posts from a robot pizza guy. Shame they got caught up with softbank.
- easytiger 6y agoI don't think being caught up with SoftBank is the issue. More that SoftBank have a subset of very negative indicators in their selection process
- Nasrudith 6y agoIt seems that lack of a remotely viable businesses model and trying to scale things that don't are are common SoftBank flaws. Like WeWork and the countless scooter and ride share at a loss companies with little true barrier to entry and can hardly pay for themselves while infamously underpaying their workforce.
- mtmail 6y ago"Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21127795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21127795 "SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22337057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22337057