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We’re F*cked, It’s Over. Or Is It?

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Re: We’re F*cked, It’s Over. Or Is It?

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Post by pgeorgi »

dvcc wrote: post #17
creshal wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely a chain restaurant with its own routing algorithm is worthy a bazillion dollars?

"We placed ants in a scale model of the entire city. Placed food at the delivery points and recorded their steps. In the end it's the first swarming, multi-node, organic-learning food delivery algorithm."

Now you only have to figure out how to make the ants not take short-cuts (eg. walk over houses)

Re: We’re F*cked, It’s Over. Or Is It?

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Post by peterbonney »

I don't understand. It sounds like they ditched the "Uber for home-cooked meals" model and started... a restaurant that offers delivery via app? That doesn't really seem like "the first truly scalable food tech company"; it seems like they are trying to compete with e.g. Seamless by vertically integrating. Which sounds... less scalable probably?

But kudos to them for the clever marketing - they got me to read about them, which I guess is the only point.

Re: We’re F*cked, It’s Over. Or Is It?

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Post by karmachameleon2 »

city41 wrote: post #10
karmachameleon2 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know, in the real world, the dreaded F-Word is used by just about anyone who's not deeply religious.. and even they might sometimes fail to censor themselves before saying it.

The title gives no indication what the article is about, that's the real problem.

How do you know I didn't interpret his message correctly?

Re: We’re F*cked, It’s Over. Or Is It?

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Post by continuations »

creshal wrote: post #12
dvcc wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh god, as I read through it I kind of just started laughing to myself. They opened a chain restaurant -- surely VC-money worthy.

Surely a chain restaurant with its own routing algorithm is worthy a bazillion dollars?

But they pivoted their business model to a different space. Surely those buzzwords alone are worth a couple hundred million dollars.

Now add a deep learning routing algorithm with a reactive architecture running in containers in the cloud and we're talking about a billion dollar exit. Easy.

Re: We’re F*cked, It’s Over. Or Is It?

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Post by pavel_lishin »

pgeorgi wrote: post #21
dvcc wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"We placed ants in a scale model of the entire city. Placed food at the delivery points and recorded their steps. In the end it's the first swarming, multi-node, organic-learning food delivery algorithm."

Now you only have to figure out how to make the ants not take short-cuts (eg. walk over houses)

You need to stop thinking inside the box, my friend. My new company Delivr will equip all of our delivery drives with stilts so they can step right over backyards, houses, etc. We're also testing out a new paramotor that will allow them to literally leap over property in their way.

Re: We’re F*cked, It’s Over. Or Is It?

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Post by dvcc »

pgeorgi wrote: post #21
dvcc wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"We placed ants in a scale model of the entire city. Placed food at the delivery points and recorded their steps. In the end it's the first swarming, multi-node, organic-learning food delivery algorithm."

Now you only have to figure out how to make the ants not take short-cuts (eg. walk over houses)

"We soon realized that ants took unexpected short-cuts. To solve this we switched to a drone based delivery model, cutting out the middle-man. In our second-generation organic-learning model we also switched to bees. We call this algorithm, buzzfeed."
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