Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

thehustle.co

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

401–410 of 499 posts

Re: A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

#401

Post by vmurthy »

jdietrich wrote: post #125

Michael O'Leary being incredibly rude is a key part of Ryanair's branding. If you're paying £19 for a two hour flight, you'll always have the sneaking suspicion that the airline is skimping on maintenance. O'Leary makes it absolutely clear that they save money by treating their passengers like cattle. He carefully cultivates the image of a man who utterly despises his own customers, but is far too miserly to allow an…

There's a wonderful book out there called "Different" by Professor Youngme Moon [1] which details a few cases like what you said. Her book is about how companies can be different

One case that comes to mind is Ikea with this DIY approach. Is it the most convenient way to buy furniture? Not really given the work you need to do. Prof Moon argues that this paradoxically creates a stickiness to the brand because you have invested something (time and effort).

Another one is the "In-n-out" burger joint(Forgive me if I have gotten the name wrong). Apparently, it takes a full 15-20 minutes to get a burger here but it is thriving in-spite of this difficulty because people know they're not getting some frozen processed food.

[1]https://www.amazon.in/Different-Escaping-Competitive-Youngme...

Re: A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

#402

Post by carlob »

arcturus17 wrote: post #385
sharadov wrote: post #377

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, it was Lululemon, they were all making sporting apparel which you could wear while working out, but were nowhere close to the fabric, design, and style that Lululemon had, and they were completely clueless and neglecting the women's market. They eventually realized and have IMO caught on ( UA and Nike have great lines which have great fabrics, but am a guy, if you ask my wife she will go with Athleta, which is…

Lululemon has a weak presence in many parts of the EU and we still have people wear gym clothes in their normal lives...

People wearing gym clothes in their normal lives in Europe? Really not as much as in the US.

Re: A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

#403

Post by noelherrick »

sudhirj wrote: post #369
seem_2211 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Price, value and practical utility are not really correlated. A Rolex and a Timex will both tell you the time. An iPhone and a $129 Android will do mostly similar things. A Toyota Camry and a Porsche will both get you to work. But practical utility and value aren't necessarily the most important thing. Apple intuitively understood this, at a time when other computer companies didn't. Lots of people look at a Macbook…

Rolex is an interesting example, because their value is actually based on utility, not style. People actually (used to) wear them a mile under the sea, measure oxygen with them while diving etc. You can’t trust a Timex with your life, but a Rolex you can. That establishes baseline value, like a finely crafted Japanese chef knife. My dinner won’t taste any better, but the tool I’m holding is valuable to the people who…

I have never seen or heard of someone using a Rolex for diving. As you said, maybe they used to. And that’s the point-they used to, so now that value that was utility is now purely style.

Re: A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

#404

Post by gdy »

gingabriska wrote: post #313
roland35 wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Easy enough to say if your boss is not hitting on you! If you turn him down it could hurt your career... These are the types of things most men don't have to worry about.

>These are the types of things most men don't have to worry about. My co-worker went got me fired because I didn't accept her advances. It's a long story but she accused me of hitting on her, when in reality she was hitting on me and I was just ignoring her. A bunch of other guys supported her (idk why, I didn't know those guys much but they supported her even tho she is a pathological lier.)

#BelieveHer

Re: A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

#405

Post by novaRom »

skrebbel wrote: post #400

I've always been amazed at how important it appears to be to lie about selling crap. I find that invariably, businesses who compete on price make it iff they say it's good stuff, even if everybody knows it isn't. Eg Holland has a number of cheap shoe chains. Schoenenreus and Scapino both breathe an air of cheapness, and one went bust and the other is struggling bad. Their direct competitor Van Haren sells exactly equ…

>ALDI, which competes on price and nothing else

They offer lots of good quality things, so better to say they have the best price/quality ratio.

Re: A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

#406

Post by gdy »

tbyehl wrote: post #121
gdy wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is she a victim?

You can debate if Lewinsky was a victim of Clinton but she absolutely was a victim of Linda Tripp, who had her own vendetta against the Clintons. Tripp manipulated her, secretly recorded their conversations, lied, betrayed her confidences, and served her up to the machinery that was working to take down Clinton.

I almost agree, but Tripp didn't put that blue dress in the freezer.

Re: A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

#407

Post by gdy »

eloff wrote: post #263
gdy wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The goal is to collapse your comment and prevent other people from seeing it, not to change your opinion.

Censorship of dissenting opinions should hopefully be abhorrent to most people here on HN. It goes against the hacker ideals.

Oh, come on, they are just making hn a better and safer place.

Re: A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

#408

Post by clort »

skrebbel wrote: post #400

I've always been amazed at how important it appears to be to lie about selling crap. I find that invariably, businesses who compete on price make it iff they say it's good stuff, even if everybody knows it isn't. Eg Holland has a number of cheap shoe chains. Schoenenreus and Scapino both breathe an air of cheapness, and one went bust and the other is struggling bad. Their direct competitor Van Haren sells exactly equ…

> Their bread goes stale faster

Interestingly, I wonder why this would be a metric of lower quality bread rather than higher? I mean, the obvious way to make the bread last longer would be to pump it full of preservatives, and the white stuff you buy pre-sliced in packs lasts for ages though it is not really bread and the quality is obviously low (or is it? The slices are so smooth, the bubbles so even and the crust not hard at all)

When I have been to France and bought a baguette in the morning, obviously it is normally eaten right away because fresh and delicious, but if you leave it until the afternoon it is already stale and chewy. Does that imply low quality?

(I do buy some food from Aldi, though I prefer my bread from the baker across the road :)

Re: A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

#409

Post by thaumasiotes »

Phillipharryt wrote: post #378

So I've actually done a fair amount of research on this speech, and there a few skipped points most times people report on it. Firstly the audience loved the jokes, they laughed at them all. It wasn't like he delivered them to stunned faces and immediate shock. The only thing that brought him down was a newspaper reporter noted it down and newspapers pushed it as an artificial scandal. Everyone buying 5 pound earring…

> it wasn't even the first time he had publicly made these sorts of jokes, in fact it wasn't even the first time they had been published in the papers.

> This was entirely a newspaper driven downfall

That first point is good evidence that the jokes weren't very responsible for what happened.

But it seems like it's just as good evidence that newspaper coverage also wasn't very responsible. Why attribute it to the newspapers this time, when they tried and failed before?

Re: A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

#410

Post by gdy »

roland35 wrote: post #152
reroute1 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still not necessarily victimizing anyone though

Easy enough to say if your boss is not hitting on you! If you turn him down it could hurt your career... These are the types of things most men don't have to worry about.

You seem to be under illusion that women are morally better than men. That's sexist and, worse, wrong.
Post reply on HN