"A realistic case, according to several specialists, would be automating portions of an existing supply chain that stretches from a factory floor to the companies that ship and deliver goods to a consumer’s doorstep.
'The opportunity is massive,' said Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the M.I.T. Center for Digital Business. 'There are still people who walk around in factories and pick things up in distribution centers and work in the back rooms of grocery stores.'"
2. Ex-Googlers now dominate the top ranks of many Silicon Valley companies.
"Xooglers are now COO Facebook, CEO Twitter, COO Square, COO Snapchat, CEO Instagram, COO Buzzfeed, CEO Yahoo, CEO AOL."
"'Imagine this…taco shells made from Doritos,' he wrote to Frito-Lay, the company that makes Doritos, 'I know…It’s an amazing thing to ponder.' The two companies went on to cooperate in developing Locos Tacos. When Taco Bell’s test kitchen created the finished product, the company flew Mr. Mills and his wife to California to tour the test kitchen and taste the final result.
Taco Bell has sold more than a half-billion of the tacos since they were introduced, making it one of the company’s best-selling products. It has since introduced extra-spicy and cool ranch Dorito flavors.
In a statement the company called Mr. Mills a 'true friend of the Taco Bell family.'"
4. Delightful sixth-grade metalheads.
"Now I'm writing a book. The book is about people who are being bullied in school and they joined a band and have become rich and famous and toured all over the world. The people that judged them have become homeless.
It's, like, based on a true story."
"I adore Yelp! Haters go home. Before Yelp, I wsihed I had a place to check out reviews of stuff other than printers. Well - there's Angie's List, only I was surprised to find they wanted my money to let me read reviews or contribute. Screw that. Plus, I figured they probably couln't give you enough of a breadth of reviews over a variery of bussinesses.
So Yelp came along. Problem solved. It's not perfect. It's still confusing when the reveiws are so widely dsitributed. But mostly, you get the idea. This place is a 4/5 star place. This place is more of a middle of the road - 3 star place (which means you might consider it 2 stars).My favorite part of Yelp is the people, the connections and my oh-so Elite status!"
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