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Simo: Sick people will rely on AI for cures within 10 years
“A lot of sick people
Are gonna rely on AI to get cured in the next 10 years.”
Fidji Simo: 3 Million US Women Suffer From Unfunded Neuroimmune Diseases
“Three million women in the US are suffering from neuroimmune diseases, and no one seems to care. Time to fund research and time to find a cure.”
Simo: Instacart will lead food relationship evolution over next decade
“And I really believe that it's a company that's going to be at the center of, as a relationship between people and food. Evolves over the next decade, whether it's through personalization, convenience, nutrition, and there's going to be just so many interestin…”
Simo: Instacart will empower local grocers to compete with Amazon
“And I think it means that we will have helped our retail partners really compete against Amazon and we'll have Given them all of the technology tools so that they remain at the center of local communities and allow local communities to thrive.”
Simo Led Facebook Mobile Monetization When Consensus Said It Was Impossible
“I was put in charge of monetizing mobile kind of right after the IPO when no one thought that Facebook could monetize mobile.”
Simo: Leading Facebook app was like managing 25 wrapped companies
“Even at Facebook, when I was leading the Facebook app, you know, it's fundamentally 25 companies like wrapped into one.”
Simo: Mark Zuckerberg's Decision-Making Was Unaffected by Facebook's IPO
“And I think, you know, I went through this transition at Facebook when we went IPO and I had a great role model in Mark where, you know, his decision-making wasn't affected by being public. It was really all about how do we sell people best and how do we sell …”
Fidji Simo: Instacart grew 4x in 2020 before her CEO tenure
“I joined Instacart in 20, 21, and it was a very interesting time because the company had forex the year before.”
Simo: Instacart tech powers Publix, Kroger, and Schnucks websites
“Instacart was also a retail enablement company, meaning that we weren't just building the Instacart app. We were actually building technologies for our grocers. You know, when you go to Publix.com, Kroger.com, Schnucks.com, like that's Instacart technology tha…”
Simo: Instacart processes one billion AI-powered search queries per quarter
“We do a billion searches a month, a quarter, sorry. And you know, it's all powered by AI.”
Simo: Instacart has suggested one billion AI-powered item replacements
“We have suggested a billion replacement at this point. And like, that's all powered by AI.”
Simo: Instacart marketing team used AI to create 200 animated characters
“I think it's going to impact productivity well beyond engineering. A lot of people are talking about, you know, making software development easier, but I'll give you some other examples like our marketing team, for example, created an entire library of animate…”
Simo: Instacart aggregates over 80,000 stores across 1,000+ retailers
“The fact that Instacart has aggregated, you know 80,000 stores, more than a thousand retailers means that we can create these magical experiences where you ask the software, you know, things in a natural language, And food shows up at your door in two hours.”
Simo: Instacart data shows omnichannel shoppers are more valuable
“We have actually have data that shows that customers who are omnichannel customers are more valuable than the online only customer or the Offline only customer.”
Simo: People spend more time watching food content than cooking
“In fact, people spend more time watching food contents than ever cooking it.”
Simo: There is a 14-year lag from research discovery to clinic
“There is actually a 14 years delay between
A new discovery, a new research discovery, and that impacting the clinic”
Simo Applied Her Core Management Frameworks to Parenting Her Daughter
“I built a lot of my management tools before I got pregnant. And so, in fact, I feel like I have applied a lot of my management tools on my daughter rather than the other way around.”
Simo Invented 'Facebook Stores' Over Thanksgiving to Land Her Facebook Job
“I spent my entire Thanksgiving weekend inventing a new product called Facebook Stores, which is very close to a product that we've launched recently called Facebook Shops, and I built all of the marketing materials around it.”