David Johnson, CEO of Dexai Robotics: $12 Million Raised to Power the Future of Kitchen Automation

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with David Johnson, CEO of Dexai, a kitchen robotics platform that's raised over $12 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: David’s background, including his PhD in physics, and how growing up on mother-cooked meals inspired his hobby as a chef The man who invented the helicopter, and why he’s an inspiration for David What David was like as a teenager, and why the idea of starting a company never scared him How Dexai uses robots to allow chefs in commercial kitchens to avoid the boring, repetitive tasks of large-scale cooking The challenges of working in kitchen automation, and what advice David would give to his earlier self starting out   Favorite book:  One Hundred Years of Solitude