SoftBank-backed Zume Pizza to lay off up to 80% of its staff

Re:SoftBank-backed Zume Pizza to lay off up to 80% of its staff by vxNsr on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @11:23AM (#21981404)

WOW... $300 mil to deliver pizza.

Also wasn't there a company on SV that PP bought that had a similar idea?

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Re:SoftBank-backed Zume Pizza to lay off up to 80% of its staff by htfu on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:27PM (#21982138)

IIRC their business model was "buy pizza from Domino's - repackage it - lose money" which at least explains its failure. As usual the show is much more sensible than reality.

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Re:SoftBank-backed Zume Pizza to lay off up to 80% of its staff by LunaSea on Thursday January 09, 2020 @08:59AM (#22001190)

Also called the Theranos business model.

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