Today we visited Ireland based companies called Food Cloud and Enterprise Ireland. FoodCloud is a social enterprise that connects businesses with surplus food to local charities and community groups in Ireland. One of the CEOs, Iseult Ward, was listed as a social entrepreneur in Forbes 30 under 30. Even though this site was a small…
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Alexa Alexa, Show Me the Money (9)
Hello and Happy Wednesday! It has been an eventful past few days. To catch the readers up to speed, Monday included a site visit to Amazon, an 8-mile stress run, and lots of deep thinking about how technology will eventually end all of mankind. For me, hearing from Amazon and AWS was everything I anticipated…
Rags to Riches
Yesterday we visited FoodCloud, a non profit dedicated to eliminating food waste, and Enterprise Ireland, a company that invests in Irish born companies and helps them export their products. The companies are very different but both share the same mission, to help and serve the people of Ireland. I was particularly interested in how much…
It’s Always Day 1 in Amazon
On Monday, we had a site visit in one of the leading companies on technology: Amazon. It was one of my favorite site visits because I learned so much about Amazon that I didn’t know before. Also, I felt that the employees and company were very welcoming after opening their office two months ago. I…
Food Cloud
Today we visited Food Cloud and Enterprise Ireland. These are two very different companies. First off, I was very impressed with Food Cloud. This company is a nonprofit that works to bridge the gap between excess food in grocery stores and the hungry people in homeless shelters. This company is essentially implementing technology to provide…
Amazon, the Behemoth
A couple days ago, we had the opportunity to visit the company that many of us were looking forward to, Amazon. It seems like amazon is taking over the world these days, and they are setting the efficiency standard across businesses. Of course I’m kidding when I say that they are taking over the world,…
Amazon Owns The World
Today we visited Amazon. My group is in charge of presenting about Amazon so we all came ready with loads of questions and enthusiasm. When we first got to the right new fancy building the first thing we were told was “no photos could be taken”. We then had to sign document waivers to be…
Ireland Day 9
Today we visited Food Cloud and Enterprise Ireland. While I enjoyed both tours, they were very different from each other. Food Cloud was the first that we visited and it was different from any company we have visited so far in my opinion. It was really interesting to see the warehouse full of food…
Ireland Day 8
Today we did a site visit at Amazon. After visiting Google last week, I was expecting a laid back experience since that is what Google provided. Contrary to my thoughts going in, Amazon was very strict. We had to be checked in upon entering and were not allowed to be alone at any point. I…
Lá naoi: Day Nine – Amazon was Prime
Today, we had a site visit at Amazon. You would think Amazon would have a similar atmosphere as Google, but it was actually very different. As soon as we entered the building we were told no photos (not even of the lobby) and had to sign liability waivers. We also had to be escorted to…
Day 8: Amazon: my PRIMEary concerns
Monday Funday! Today’s excursion led us behind the doors of one of the most well-known brands in the modern world: Amazon. To be brief, I wasn’t super impressed. Heres why. If it hasn’t been made clear by now, my attitude is very laid-back/casual. From what I saw, Amazon really couldn’t have been a worse cultural…
Amazon Visit: Making Sense of a Terrifying Company
Today we visited Amazon. When we arrived we were to fill out confidentiality forms and not take any pictures. I expected them to not give us very much information about their business and be very dodgy with the amount of pull Amazon has on a global scale. I would soon find out that my expectations…
Can I just stay in the freezer box please
What’s up fam I’m gonna break this in two for you thanks for visiting my blog. Food Cloud Our first visit of the day to Food Cloud was, like the other visits, unlike the rest. The presenter himself was indicative of the caring, entrepreneurial brand of Food Cloud. You could tell he was one of…
EnterpriseCloud (did I get that right?)
Today was a long day filled with a lot of traveling and very interesting site visits. We started the day by taking a long bus ride to FoodCloud where we met John. John is a business development manager for FoodCloud Hubs. We started out in a small room listening to John talk about the gist…
Enter(sur)prise Ireland
Today was one of our busiest days as we had two different site visits! Our first was FoodCloud and our second was Enterprise Ireland. FoodCloud has a vision for “a world where no good food goes to waste.” Our speaker for the site visit was John Pakenham and he started off by explaining the problem…
Get Your Head Out of the Clouds: Sustainable Business
What a day! With two site visits –FoodCloud and Enterprise Ireland (no, not the car company) — we are officially done visiting businesses for the Ireland trip. Bittersweet, yes. However, we ended on a very positive note with two interesting and drastically different site visits. FoodCloud is a nonprofit organization created in 2012 with the…
I’m a piranha I live in the Amazon
First of all wow. The Amazon visit is something I will truly remember forever. As a BIS major and someone very interested in tech, it completely opened my eyes to the possibilities of both careers and for human kind in general. For the first talk with Alexa, the first thing that stood out to me…
Are you ever really alone with Alexa in your home?
Yesterday, we had the opportunity to visit Amazon! My first impression of the building (once we got to the correct location since we originally ended up at an alternate Amazon), was that it was fascinating. It was an all glass building, but there was no large sign like I had thought there would be to…
Enterprise: We’ll Pick You Up
Today was a crazy day full of busses, walking, and two different site visits. Our second visit of the day was Enterprise Ireland, which is NOT the same as Enterprise car rental companies (lol). In all seriousness though, Enterprise Ireland was a very interesting company. It seems very similar to Bord Bia in a sense…
Amaz(ing)on
After a long walk, and arriving at the wrong location, we were able to make our way to Amazon’s office in Dublin. My first impression of Amazon was, ‘this building is very clean and they seem to be hiding something.’ We were told immediately that we could not take photos of ANYTHING. Little do they…