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David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish · 5 days ago

Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI — and the stock goes up 580%

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Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI — and the stock goes up 580%

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David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish · 5 days ago
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Once upon a time there was a shoe company called Allbirds. They made wool sneakers that the Silicon Valley set loved in the late 2010s. The company went public on the stock market in 2021. But the …

Long Island Iced AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEzV1m1DKbA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260416-shoe-company-pivots-to-ai-stock-goes-up-580 - podcast

time: 5 min 52 sec

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    I was recommended allbirds by my piano teacher. They suck

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
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    Nothing matters anymore. How does a shoe company pivot to ai? It doesn’t.

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    fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) and AI-native cloud solutions provider.

    Aren’t all of the GPUs spoken for the next several years spoken for?

    • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.social
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      They’ll promise to Jensen to give him their shoes

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    Surely this will be the Pets.com of the AI bubble

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      @frank @dgerard

      Dammit, they just missed their shot at a Superbowl ad

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    It’s just financialization, like Boeing has been doing for decades. The only real product is stock trading and shareholding for the sake of stock trading and shareholding.

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    And sales will most likely go down.

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    Be needen a handout soon.

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