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Inside Instacart's AI-Powered Smart Shopping Cart | NVIDIA AI Podcast Ep. 302

2026-06-24 · 2 company · 3 thematic
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david mcintosh

Technology entrepreneur; co-founded and led Tenor (GIF search) to hundreds of millions of users, sold to Google and scaled to 1B+ users. Joined Instacart to lead enterprise platform and now runs Connected Stores, including the $350M Caper acquisition and AI-powered smart cart deployment.

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