Timo Boldt

Yeah, so you and I should never see the same menu.

We should see very personalized and customizable menus.

And so for the last 10 plus years, we've built 17 AI products that power the factories, that decide what you and I should see based on what we've ordered the last couple of weeks.

Yeah, I mean, employee number eight was a PhD in machine learning.

Right, so you're well ahead of the curve.

And he was amazing.

He cut forecasting waste and saved us lots of money.

And so we got addicted to data science early on, luckily.

And so we asked him, what else can you do?

And so he moved from forecasting to order routing optimization, where how does the order travel through the factory and everything.

How do we put tomatoes on the first station in the factory, the last one, all 150 stations?

I mean, no human can ever kind of calculate these things.

And every time he updated the algorithm, magically our labor costs went down.

Right.

And you still need people who have 50 years of factory experience.

Then you also need these 20-year-old kids with PhDs in machine learning.

And together they did magical stuff.

And so we got quite addicted to the power of data science early on.

Well, it reassures me you still employ 1,700 people in this environment because that's what success can bring.

But you got addicted to a data science.