Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast
by hef19898 on Saturday February 15, 2020 @05:29PM
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I saw an analysis of Shipley a couple of days ago. Apparently Shipley refused to hire people from the shipping industry. Because these people would refuse "innovation". Compare that to Amazon Logistics who hired a ton of people from other shipping companies. Maybe, just maybe, industry and domain knowledge are helpful. Even for disruptive start-ups.
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Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast
by jjeaff on Sunday February 16, 2020 @03:38PM
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Plus, many of those grizzled veterans would love to run with a green field project. They've been putting up with obvious inneffiencies for years because most of the time, it's not the experts that resist change, it's the inertia of a mega Corp that is doing so much business right now, that change is extremely difficult and disruptive.
Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast
by hef19898 on Monday February 17, 2020 @09:49AM
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Yeah, so true. Consider me one of them. Occassions like this, Shiply, often strike me as young, aspiring scientist using other peoples money to figure out the a wheel should be round.
Being a little bit more active in my local start-up scene now also means following stat-ups in general. And a lot of these companies, including one I used to work for for a short period, seem to ignore lessons other learned, the hard way. If these lessons are concerning your USP, ignore them, because it is where you inovate. regardless, you should have understood these lessons before ignoring them.
Ignoring these lessons in any other part of your company is just stupid. Like not managing your cash flow.