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Re:GM shuts down car-sharing service Maven by covidacct on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @10:46PM (#22941533)
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.
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Re:GM shuts down car-sharing service Maven by tlb on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @01:26AM (#22942509)
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."

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