Julia Collins
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And that chip on the shoulder came out.
I was like, why am I thugging it out here in restaurants in New York City?
These people are getting tens and hundreds of millions of dollars to build companies.
I need to get out there and be a part of that.
So that's what drew me out.
It was knowing that we were in the middle of a revolution in the industry that I cared the most about, food.
And, you know, remember I like studied biomedical engineering at Harvard.
So I'm like a nerdy tech kind of a person.
And I thought, oh my gosh, food plus tech, plus moving back home, plus opportunity.
Like I really have to be there.
When we started Zoom, we started with like a very simple premise, which is how can we feed the world without ruining the planet?
What kind of technology would you need to deploy to make food safer and healthier and
and to make the conditions of the people who are making the food better.
So that's where the robots came in.
Wow.
That's where the compostable packaging came in.
That's where we were experimenting with drone delivery and stair climbing robots.
This was back in 2015, 2016.
Yeah.
And at that time...