from yabbly to poachable. but the name was just the start. they actually changed the entire company. they shifted from providing a service and product for consumers, to job hunters. it allows employed people to explore new opportunities without revealing their identity. shifting the business or pivoting from consumer advice to job hunting, was a huge change. but it s not as random as it seems, because the core function connecting people with common interests, is still the focus. a pivot is some fundamental assumption about the business is wrong. but, we re going to repurpose some of the work we ve done and try something kind of slightly different, but still has a lot of the dna of the original idea. tom says he and ian actually knew they had to pivot yabbly way back before they got the south by invitation. we just weren t seeing enough traction.
our help, and we need our own help you want them to know our capabilities as well and have them fear us and shake in their boots so they don t act. there s a ton of waste in the government and pentagon. let s not forget protecting the government is not the function of government it is the core function of government. it s not to provide health care or make people happy to get them to lose weight. those are the benefits. the whole point is to protect america. and if you re failing at that, you re failing. that s the only measure. you re saying that s more important than the food pyramid. i m thinking it s even more important than forcing cvs to stop selling cigarettes. we have a head line out of tennessee when you have death threats being thrown add a tennessee muslim college professor who getting up in college and speaks about his
shopping on their smartphones or tablets. accounting for about 20% of cyber monday sales. online retailer amazon.com wants to make sure all of those cyber monday orders get out to shoppers as fast as possible. of course, and the company is using a robot army to move presidents day quickly through warehouses, how it all works is pretty cool. take a look. the system serves a core function, enabling the very rapid taking of products for delivery. the inventory drives to the associates and is ready right when it s time to go to the customers. once the item is received, a robot brings up a storage pod for an associate to put
the system serves a core function, enabling the very rapid picking of products for customer orders and drives to the associates and ready right when it s time to go to the customer. a robot brings up a storage pod for an associate to put inventory into so ready available for the customer to ship and on the other side when a customer places an order the drive unit will bring the inventory to the associate to be picked. in the past an order may have taken an hour and a half to get through our total system to go to customers. now we get them in as little as under 15 minutes in some cases out to customers. they are about like nfl linemen. sort of 350 pounds, lift about 750 pound, fast and super efficient. the automation approach we take is all about using automation to improve and to
things that are core executive functions and negotiating for the release of a member of the armed services on active duty is a core function. and i don t think congress can give him instructions on how to exercise that kind of power on a retail basis. why go ahead and sign the law? presidents sign all kinds of things that are presented to them in legislation that are hundreds and hundreds of pages long. it has happened repeatedly. presidents have had to swallow deeply. show me a president who will veto a defense appropriation. let s get realistic about how the system works in washington, d.c. it s unrealistic to assume that a president is going to say, i m sorry, i m not going to sign the defense appropriation because you ve got two or three or four things that could be applied in a way that trenches on my power under the constitution. it s not realistic. you cannot run the kboft on that basis. jeff, what about that?