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Imagine reading this first sentence 20 or 30 years ago: "Zume Inc., a one-time robot pizza business that came to represent the excesses of pre-pandemic venture
by cypherpunks01 3y ago
Imagine reading this first sentence 20 or 30 years ago:
"Zume Inc., a one-time robot pizza business that came to represent the excesses of pre-pandemic venture investing, has shut operations, two people familiar with the matter said."
- che_shirecat 3y agoCan't wait for the headlines 20 or 30 years in the future.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoA container of Soylent Thincrust, lost earlier during hurricane Harlan, washed up on the shores of Orlando to the delight of the Orange County Non-Denominational Order of Homeless Laborers.
- xattt 3y agoMoon Expedition Returns After 10-Week Mission to Recover Annual Cricket Harvest. * Insert Neur-anal Link Now to Experience Full Story Details
- rcpt 3y ago20 years ago was dotcom bust. Swap pandemic for terrorists and it's about right.
- treeman79 3y agoThen it was things like free pet food delivery. Lose money on every order. Make up for it in volume. Was volume insanity.
- therealcamino 3y agoThe funny thing is that some of the most ridiculed dot com era busines models have current equivalents. For pets.com, there's Chewy. For kozmo.com, there's DoorDash. I guess time will tell if they're just spending VC money until bankruptcy, or if things have changed to make them viable.
- henrydark 3y agoI've heard the connection between the dotcom crash and terrorism once before, but never got it. The crash definitely happened before 9/11. What terrorists are connected with the dotcom crash?
- mortenjorck 3y agoThe funny thing is, you show this to someone in 1998 and they’d probably get the impression that robotics took off some time between then and now, and that this was more a casualty of the ominously unspecified pandemic rather than largely due to robotics still not being viable for everyday applications.