A founder bored with cooking at home started building food-making robots. His salad-making robots gained traction and were acquired by DoorDash, creating a fleet larger than all other food-robotics companies combined.
I'd love to hear more about what sparked your original idea for Prof Gym.
So like you mentioned, my background's inventing. I like coming up with ideas, and a lot of the ideas I come up with are in response to things I face every day in my life. So with my previous company, we built robots which made food, and that was in response to, you know, every time I cooked at home, I used to think, hey, it's so boring and mundane. There must be some way to do it better. So I started thinking about a robot which would cook my dinner. And that's how that company got started. And so the company started out that way. And then we started making robots which made salads. And when it got acquired by DoorDash, that company, we had more robots in the market than all other food robotics companies put together. And, you know, that company, you know, fed a lot of people good, healthy food in the middle of the night because robots don't need to sleep.
Paige of Behind Genius driving an AI electric train in St. Louis (Intramotev Visit)
