The ability to spin the disaster as something positive is exactly why this person is a VP at GM. This kind of skill is necessary but not sufficient to be an executive.
Re:GM shuts down car-sharing service Maven
by achillesheels on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @11:54PM
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Let’s please not generalize here. One does not need to deceive in order to be an executive. And we must make a moral example out of organizations and societies where this is considered necessary for profit.
Re:GM shuts down car-sharing service Maven
by maxlamb on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @09:25AM
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Technically she did not deceive though. If you read what she said everything is truthful.
Re:GM shuts down car-sharing service Maven
by covidacct on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @10:46PM
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OT, but does anyone know where the "learnings" phrase in corporatese come from? I noticed it five or six years ago and now it's everywhere. The first time I heard it was from a German VP and I assumed it was some sort of odd transliteration or maybe a Borat reference, but that hypothesis is obviously invalidated.
I've heard it occasionally for a long time, but not much in the startup world.
It's a word you reach for when you've burned through millions of dollars and someone asks, "What do we have to show for it?" "Learnings."
Re:GM shuts down car-sharing service Maven
by ajobforme on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @10:40PM
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they own cruise, which will open its own car-sharing platform in the future. Seems directly related to me.
Generalized door-to-door self-driving is decades away. And when it's here, the average person isn't going to be renting out their car. If the economics work, cars will come from centralized rental services like... ZipCar. Maybe car manufacturers will decide they want to rent cars directly but they could today and don't.
What a load of bullshit, just say the business failed and you shut it down. This is another example of the post-truth world where anyone can say whatever they want even if it's stupid and wrong. Startups that fail didn't have a wonderful journey, products that fail don't give valuable insight into entirely different lines of business (well, they might give some insight), and an executive that leaves after 2 months isn't a good sign no matter how they twist it.