Bonsai Robotics

For some popular crops, like grapes, labor is 80% of production costs. Meanwhile, out of 400,000 US farm jobs posted last year, fewer than 1% got a domestic applicant. That’s why Danny Bernstein and Reservoir Farms are funding AgTech startups automating the most difficult, back-breaking tasks (like picking stone fruit in 110-degree heat). Find out why JCal praises his innovative strategy and notes “everybody wants to eat the pie, but nobody wants to pick the apples” on a brand new TWiST. PLUS the Dept. of Education’s “do no harm” policy for colleges, will AI kill design, and some fresh streaming recommendations for the weekend. 0:00 Jason's ongoing World Tour 1:43 Danny Bernstein joins live from Reservoir Farms 3:38 What is "specialty crop agriculture" 5:15 Why strawberries are the "white whale" of AgTech 6:55 The labor crisis in farming 9:20 Why AgTech never scaled 9:51 NetSuite - For the first time ever, you can try NetSuite Next for free. If your revenues are at least in the seven figures, go to NetSuite.ai/TWIST 10:51 Inside Reservoir's business model 17:44 Agriculture as national security 20:09 Squarespace - Turn your idea into a beautiful website! Go to squarespace.com/twist for a free trial. When you're ready to launch, use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. 22:15 Did AI beat a designer at design? 30:56 YSecurity - The on-demand security team for startups. Need enterprise-grade security without hiring a $400k CISO? YSecurity gives you 40+ expert engineers, matched to exactly what you need, by the hour, with your first six hours completely free. Go to YSecurity.io/TWIST 37:23 The "do no harm" college earnings test 43:27 Brown University students cheated on their midterms 52:22 Lon's streaming recommendations 59:46 Jason's new snake grabber cc: @bernsteind, @ReservoirFarms, @bonsai_robotics, @jason, @lons 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇

@bonsai_robotics amiga Max autonomously navigating a strawberry field using an AI-native autonomy stack, electrostatically spraying with just 75% less material and 80% less diesel This is what an autonomy-first design looks like: built around AI, not a human sitting in a cab🍓🤖