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Allbirds announces pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175%

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbirds-bird-stock-shoes-ai.html
29•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago

Comments

onychomys•50m ago
They keep having to update the headline as the stock goes up, it's now at "more than 300%".
frizlab•48m ago
Now 400%!
skullone•40m ago
What a scam
usui•36m ago
Pets announces pivot from Pets to Pets.com, stock explodes 1000%
SideburnsOfDoom•35m ago
Ah, so we have reached the "Pivot to NFTs, stock jumps" phase of the ""Pivot to AI" bubble.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinbirnbaum/2022/02/18/how-a...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90711340/whats-happening-with-ga...

m4rtink•29m ago
So not long any more for this bubble as well ? ;-)
SideburnsOfDoom•27m ago
I am not the judge of that, but how this goes might be an indicator - i.e. over what timespan the pump, dump, crash of this stock plays out.

PS: googling "allbirds bankrupt" shows that no, this company is not doing well. Lots of "What went wrong" articles,

and

https://wwd.com/footwear-news/shoe-industry-news/allbirds-ip...

https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/retail/allbirds-to-be...

fnimick•35m ago
Clearly not a bubble, though!
damnesian•29m ago
I tried suggesting this on a different forum and wow, did I get slapped down.
mikeve•22m ago
This appears to be almost like a SPAC. Allbirds had already sold it's IP and other assets, now they raised new money and are continuing under a different name but they're still a publicly traded company.

So it's not really shoe retailer pivots to AI but a shoe retailer selling all assets and forming a new company but uses the previous public stock listing.

bl4ckneon•15m ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp.

That didn't end very well for them...

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