How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017)
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Re: How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017)
#2I knew this was going to be about hot Cheetos guy, my favorite quote of his is:
“I have a PhD of being poor, hungry and determined"
Re: How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017)
#3What a legend! Janitors are outsourced now, and I wonder if the outsource everything makes the work your way to the top journey a lot harder.
Re: How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017)
#4There's no mention about whether or not the flavor Montañez came up with was the one used in the hot Cheetoes, or if the CEO even tried one.
Not that it matters, but I think it's interesting that the actual product here we can safely hand-wave away, "The chefs in the test kitchen will make that part work."
Re: How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017)
#5If you don't want to read the twitter thread, you can read this:
Re: How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017)
#6Readable version:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1341193051184611331.html
Re: How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017)
#7Great story, but it can’t happen today. No janitor works for the company whose floors he’s mopping anymore, so janitors wouldn’t get that company-wide email.
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#8What a legend! Janitors are outsourced now, and I wonder if the outsource everything makes the work your way to the top journey a lot harder.
I doubt the janitor is going out on sales calls if they're contracted in from another company aye
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#9What a legend! Janitors are outsourced now, and I wonder if the outsource everything makes the work your way to the top journey a lot harder.
More importantly he had time to learn about the business. How much time does a picker at Amazon have to think about the business ?
Re: How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017)
#10There's no mention about whether or not the flavor Montañez came up with was the one used in the hot Cheetoes, or if the CEO even tried one. Not that it matters, but I think it's interesting that the actual product here we can safely hand-wave away, "The chefs in the test kitchen will make that part work."
The exact flavor isn't important. What is important is that he identified an unserved, high-potential, market and put together what was basically a minimum viable product. I'm sure it needed massive refinement, but that shortcoming is a normal piece of any product development.