SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast

Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast by ttul on Saturday February 15, 2020 @03:45PM (#22337849)

This highlights an all-to-common error by venture capitalists (and, I suppose, founders): the assumption that someone hasn’t done this before.

Sure, Rademaker doesn’t put their enormous frozen pizza technology in a van. But making pizza with robots? Dude, that’s been done before.

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Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast by jjeaff on Sunday February 16, 2020 @03:41PM (#22343628)

I don't think VCs care about that. In fact, they probably prefer that it has been done before. It's not like Amazon was the first company to sell things online. Nor was under the first to have an app to hail a ride.

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Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast by catalogia on Saturday February 15, 2020 @04:04PM (#22337951)

> Sure, Rademaker doesn’t put their enormous frozen pizza technology in a van.

I bet if you gave them enough money to bother trying, they could squeeze a pizza machine into a van. Making a pizza in a van seems possible, but pointless.

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Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast by ttul on Saturday February 15, 2020 @05:46PM (#22338559)

I bet they’d do it for $375M!

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