In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with David Johnson, CEO of Dexai, a kitchen robotics platform that's raised over $12 Million in funding.
Topics Discussed:
- David’s background, including his PhD in physics, and how growing up on mother-cooked meals inspired his hobby as a chef
- The man who invented the helicopter, and why he’s an inspiration for David
- What David was like as a teenager, and why the idea of starting a company never scared him
- How Dexai uses robots to allow chefs in commercial kitchens to avoid the boring, repetitive tasks of large-scale cooking
- The challenges of working in kitchen automation, and what advice David would give to his earlier self starting out
Favorite book:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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