If you wanted to create a company worth £100 million – in the space of four years – selling just one product, what would that product be? An artificial-intelligence robot that promised to change the way we live our lives? Ankur Shah chose a pair of slippers. He even, as they always do in Hollywood films, scribbled down his business plan on a yellow legal pad. “It said: ‘I’m going to make the world’s favourite slipper.’ And as I did it, I had a grin on my face, thinking, ‘This is absolutely idiotic.’ ”…

Source: The Times October 12, 2018 23:03 UTC