Larry Ellison’s jumped in agriculture with his company, Sensei FarmsServe a classic memory: being a genius in one arena does not mean success in another. When The WSJ reportsOracle’s co-founder wanted to reinvent agriculture on the Lāna’i island of Hawaii, which he scooped up for $ 300 million in 2012. Eight years and more than $ 500 million later, the project is still on the framework.
Ellison dreamed of AI-driven greenhouses and robot harvesters that feed the world sustainably. Instead, Sensei is activated by Tech-Snarls such as Wi-Fi problems and solar panels battered by Lanai’s wind and rookie errors. Think of greenhouses designed for the desert climate of Israel, when Lāna’i is usually stuffy. The company also mixed mature and baby plants together, a blueprint for a plague paradise.
Sensei, partly founded by a doctor And led at the moment The WSJ reports a Tech -Exec that runs Sensei from Boston, the WSJ reports. The SLA and Cherry tomatoes now appear on the few local markets and restaurants of the island. But constant delays, leadership shaking and expensive blunders, including cannabis, houses that had to be stripped and rebuilt grow, emphasize a difficult truth: even bottomless financing is not a party for the hard lessons of a specialized industry.
Boven: Larry Ellison and his co-founder in Sensei Farms, David Agus
