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Focal
Last discussed Nov 4, 2026
The host's company, which managed retail inventory systems, including Walmart's.
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"Even at Focal, when we're rolling out new betas, you can really mess up. You know, we were in control of Walmart's inventory, and so if you roll out a bad beta, you order too many avocados and you blow millions of dollars."
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"We made this mistake at Focal. We spent a lot of time collecting training data, training models to solve people tracking for retailers to know where people are and when in retail stores."
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