{"id":16855,"date":"2026-04-16T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16855"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:13:41","slug":"stop-selling-shoes-and-sell-ai-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16855","title":{"rendered":"Stop selling shoes and sell AI instead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After selling its shoe brand and assets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/30\/allbirds-is-selling-for-39-million-it-raised-nearly-10-times-that-amount-in-its-ipo\/\">last month for $39 million<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/15\/after-sale-of-its-shoe-business-allbirds-pivots-to-ai\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/15\/after-sale-of-its-shoe-business-allbirds-pivots-to-ai\/\">Allbirds is pivoting to AI<\/a>. The company is also changing its name, since the footwear brand \u201cAllbirds\u201d was part of the sale. Introducing: NewBird AI, a \u201cfully integrated GPU-as-a-Service and AI-native cloud solutions provider,\u201d the company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ir.allbirds.com\/node\/9566\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a>\u00a0via its investor relations\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ir.allbirds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">site<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After selling its shoe brand and assets\u00a0last month for $39 million, Allbirds is pivoting to AI. The company is also changing its name, since the footwear brand \u201cAllbirds\u201d was part of the sale. Introducing: NewBird AI, a \u201cfully integrated GPU-as-a-Service and AI-native cloud solutions provider,\u201d the company\u00a0announced\u00a0via its investor relations\u00a0site\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4nR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16856,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16855\/revisions\/16856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}