The Story of SideChef: From the Smart Kitchen's Early Days to Rise of AI with Kevin Yu

The Spoon Podcast - A podcast by Michael Wolf

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In this podcast interview, Mike catches up with SideChef's Kevin Yu in the wake of the company's recent funding round to discuss the evolution of SideChef and the smart kitchen market. A lot has happened since Mike and Kevin first met on the roof deck of a restaurant at SXSW, so they reminisce about old times, talk about the cyclical nature of innovation, and how AI will impact the connected kitchen space. Kevin shares SideChef's AI strategy, his plans for the company, and where he thinks this is all going.   Podcast Outline: Introduction: (00:00) -Host: Michael Wolf -Guest: Kevin Yu, CEO and founder of SideChef Early days and the birth of SideChef (02:29) SideChef's recent funding round (03:15) The evolution of SideChef (05:42) Plans for the future (07:30) Expansion of SideChef platform into computer vision and machine vision (10:34) Collaborating with Bacardi (12:36) The state of the connected kitchen space (15:59) Overcoming challenges in the industry (17:00) The potential of shoppable recipes and future innovations [20:53] Cyclical nature of innovation and the role of AI [23:02]   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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