c/techtakes · by dgerard@awful.systems · 148d

Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI — and the stock goes up 580%

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/16/shoe-company-allbirds-pivots-to-ai-and-the-stock-goes-up-580/

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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8 Comments

Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 14 pts · 148d

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

frank@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 147d (1 reply)

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

pikesley@mastodon.me.uk · 5 pts · 147d

@frank @dgerard

Dammit, they just missed their shot at a Superbowl ad

MNByChoice@midwest.social · 7 pts · 147d (1 reply)

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 · 5 pts · 147d

They'll promise to Jensen to give him their shoes

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 148d

And sales will most likely go down.

thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 147d

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 pts · 147d

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swlabr@awful.systems · 2 pts · 144d

I was recommended allbirds by my piano teacher. They suck