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Business Wars Daily

No Longer a Pizza Maker, Softbank Portfolio Company Zume Flounders

Business Wars Daily

Wondery

News, Daily News, Business News, Business

4.6716 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today is Tuesday, March 3, and we’re looking at Zume vs. Domino’s Pizza.

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One, three. From Wondry, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Tuesday, March 3rd.

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If you listen to our recent miniseries, we crashed, you heard a lot

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about SoftBank, the giant investment firm that funded WeWork. And we talked about SoftBank here last

1:19.5

week in our episode about Brandless. That's the consumer good startup that SoftBank recently

1:23.9

shuttered. Well, today we're looking at yet another soft bank portfolio firm that

1:28.2

launched with a lot of hype, but that is struggling now. That would be Zoom, the Silicon Valley

1:34.5

company that promised to transform the pizza business by using robots to cook your pepperoni pie.

1:40.7

And not from a tech-enabled warehouse somewhere, no, from a mobile kitchen while en route to your living room.

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By cooking on a delivery truck, Zoom said you'd get your pizza fast.

1:51.1

In the ultra-competitive pizza delivery business, a couple of minutes shave from your delivery time,

1:55.8

can mean all the difference for pizza chains competing to win your cash.

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