Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI — and the stock goes up 580%
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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
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Nothing matters anymore. How does a shoe company pivot to ai? It doesn’t.
Surely this will be the Pets.com of the AI bubble
@frank @dgerard
Dammit, they just missed their shot at a Superbowl ad
Aren’t all of the GPUs spoken for the next several years spoken for?
They’ll promise to Jensen to give him their shoes
And sales will most likely go down.
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.
I was recommended allbirds by my piano teacher. They suck