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Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI — and the stock goes up 580% (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nothing matters anymore. How does a shoe company pivot to ai? It doesn't.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 5 points 1 week ago

@frank @dgerard

Dammit, they just missed their shot at a Superbowl ad

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 week ago

They'll promise to Jensen to give him their shoes

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

And sales will most likely go down.

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Hairyfishnuts@feddit.online 4 points 1 week ago

Be needen a handout soon.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

I was recommended allbirds by my piano teacher. They suck