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> Remember the $445 million self driving pizza oven delivery van? What I find hilarious about our industry is that this could be completely made up ... or not.
by barbazoo 3y ago
> Remember the $445 million self driving pizza oven delivery van?
What I find hilarious about our industry is that this could be completely made up ... or not.
- bookofjoe 3y ago>Pizza robot truck startup Stellar snags $16.5M from Jay-Z https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/Stellar-pizza-robot-truck-startup-snags-165m-from-jay-z/633303/ https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/Stellar-pizza-robot-truc... >Stellar, which was founded by former SpaceX employees in 2019, uses a robot to cook mobile ordered pizzas which are then delivered by the truck driver.
- gruez 3y agoThat's nowhere near the $445M claimed though. Crunchbase lists them as having only having raised $25.5M. The $445M if real, must be the valuation. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/steller-pizza https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/steller-pizza edit: looks I'm looking at the wrong company, see replies for details
- bookofjoe 3y agoAlso, the vehicles have a human driver rather than being self-driving.
- retzkek 3y agoThe $445M figure is for another mobile pizza startup, Zume. https://www.axios.com/2023/06/12/softbank-pizza-robot-shuts-down-zume-445-million https://www.axios.com/2023/06/12/softbank-pizza-robot-shuts-... Discussed last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293636