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Comment by pavel_lishin | Hacker News Reader

> The plan was simple yet ambitious:

> One month to set up a new business (rent a kitchen, hire a chef, hire motorbike drivers, create the menu, design logo, website, build mobile app for drivers, build first version of the routing algorithm plus complete all the legal and admin paperwork).

So... they opened a delivery restaurant with its own app?

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Oh god, as I read through it I kind of just started laughing to myself. They opened a chain restaurant -- surely VC-money worthy.

Surely a chain restaurant with its own routing algorithm is worthy a bazillion dollars?

"We placed ants in a scale model of the entire city. Placed food at the delivery points and recorded their steps. In the end it's the first swarming, multi-node, organic-learning food delivery algorithm."

Now you only have to figure out how to make the ants not take short-cuts (eg. walk over houses)

You need to stop thinking inside the box, my friend. My new company Delivr will equip all of our delivery drives with stilts so they can step right over backyards, houses, etc. We're also testing out a new paramotor that will allow them to literally leap over property in their way.

"We soon realized that ants took unexpected short-cuts. To solve this we switched to a drone based delivery model, cutting out the middle-man. In our second-generation organic-learning model we also switched to bees. We call this algorithm, buzzfeed."

But they pivoted their business model to a different space. Surely those buzzwords alone are worth a couple hundred million dollars.

Now add a deep learning routing algorithm with a reactive architecture running in containers in the cloud and we're talking about a billion dollar exit. Easy.

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