Walmart

“And the best way to do that is with software where you don't have to individually interview them. There's ways to take data to understand what's likely that they'll show up for work.”

“Andy, and I had also hit it off. He became an early investor, founder of Bonobos, sold it to Walmart for three hundred million plus.”

“We had a 50 robot order with Walmart pretty early on, but yeah, they were one of the ones that they said, we love you. And you know, it really hurts us to do this. We don't want to do it, but you know, we basically been told the corporate, we've got to shut al…”

“We deployed robots at Walmart, for example, And I think it was within the first two months the robots were already just through software updates. They were already operating 18, you know, they're getting 18% more work done than when we had started.”

“Really what we were going out to market for was to raise more money for acquisitions because we felt we were ready to do under the set of acquisitions. And while there were sort of a couple of big niches that we wanted to potentially go after we wanted to go o…”

“We did these two things, and then we did a little partnership with Walmart where we said, hey, we have fixed pricing. Your merchants at that time did not have FBA-like equivalent where Amazon guys have FBA. You can use Deliver for Walmart merchants to sell on …”

“And we did that, and suddenly most of merchant sales was like two X, three X, because the delivery promise was there. Plus, the pricing was flat. The moment these two things happened, I mean, I'm kidding, you know, we went from trying to find the next merchant…”

“About half of the people that work in America today do not have working. It's not something you and I really think about, but you know, Walmart has two million employees don't have it. Walmart.com email addresses, right? UPS has 300,000 drivers and people work…”