When we first met Haley Bryant, Partner at Hustle Fund, we didn’t have a shiny green pod in a parking lot. We had an ugly PowerPoint and a massive vision for fixing the broken drive-thru.

Haley wanted to see a team that could actually build. She saw our background, Amazon Robotics, marketing, and hands-on food ops, and realized we were a "dream founder market" fit.

As you’ll hear in the clip from our Q&A, professional investors don't bet on the polish; they bet on the hustle. We went from that basic deck to a fully autonomous pilot in record time.