FYI, this is from December 11th.
Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B
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Re: Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B
#12If they can mass produce that dog that can carry groceries up stairs, I’d get one.
Overall, I’d say it’s a play to make them more attractive to Apple as a tech company.
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#13It blows my mind that a chat client is worth over 26 times what Boston Dynamics is.
Well to be fair BD's _first product_ was only released what, a year ago?
If they continue chugging along I can see them generating many, many more billions of dollars of value.
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#14It blows my mind that a chat client is worth over 26 times what Boston Dynamics is.
A casino is more profitable than a hospital.
Re: Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B
#15It blows my mind that a chat client is worth over 26 times what Boston Dynamics is.
Could you add context? What chat client?
Re: Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B
#16It blows my mind that a chat client is worth over 26 times what Boston Dynamics is.
Same here.
I can imagine Boston Dynamics stepping into arbitrary dangerous situations ranging from construction to rescue to military to mining to anything else.
Slack's tech moat is minor, network effects are not considerable (not enough companies using slack to connect to third parties) and Microsoft is destroying them.
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#17FYI, this is from December 11th.
Darn, I thought it was that dance video that sealed the deal.
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#20It blows my mind that a chat client is worth over 26 times what Boston Dynamics is.
Yeah, doesn't seem right. I have this same thought when I try to think about the scale of a lot of day to day things. It's bizarre how big something becomes when it gets popular, and how many awesome things struggle.