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Peter Worn's avatar

Brilliant read! Reminds me of ‘sliceline’ a company featured on the Silicon Valley HBO comedy

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Jaryd Hermann's avatar

Yes! Classic. I actually rewatched Silicon Valley a few months ago. Zume is right out of that era they make fun of.

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Ashish's avatar

To add to all of this, it sounds like they were even competing against their future prospects by trying to disrupt the pizza delivery business?

Can't imagine them approaching local pizza chains to sell them AI supply chain tech would land well after those pizza places were competing against Zume for retail pizza customers.

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Jaryd Hermann's avatar

Really great point. I think that's more evidence that them saying Zume Pizza was purely a reference customer (only after it failed and they pivoted) isn't exactly true.

I think their goal was to become an automated Dominos, but when they dropped the ball, that narrative became better as they pivotted into a new business model.

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Manny O's avatar

You’re on a roll with these 🙌🏾

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Jaryd Hermann's avatar

Glad you're enjoying them, Manny! Thanks for all your support!

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