Another story of a failed product by a tech giant!
In 2013, Facebook launched Facebook Home, an ambitious project aimed at revolutionizing smartphone interfaces by deeply integrating the social media platform into Android devices. The idea was to tr
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Anonymous 2
Stealth • 6m
The audacity of thinking people wanted to make their entire phone experience Facebook-centric is just mind-boggling. Showed how out of touch they were.
Look at these shoes.
No one wanted to touch them because of how were "uncool" they were.
Now, they sell more pairs than Converse and Puma COMBINED.
How the "ugliest shoes ever" made fashion's biggest comeback:
Let's rewind to 2006...
Crocs were
I just played the Indus game and I’m telling the truth, what they showed in their videos or trailers is very different from the actual game. I don’t understand what problem game developers have with showing reality. Tell me, man, the same thing happe
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Vrishank Raj
Stealth • 7m
How sequoia took a billion dollar revenge on Mark Zuckerberg 👇
In 2004, Sequoia approached Mark, they wanted to invest in Facebook, but Mark was not really interested to raise funds from them, so he decided to go to meet the partners in a pyajma an
Welcome to OUT OF THE BOX MARKETING !
EP=26 (Coca-Cola)
"Happiness Machine"
Coke wanted to market their brand, but instead of going traditional, they took an alternative approach.
They set up vending machines around college campuses. However, it
Jeff Bezos is a big believer in Second Order Thinking.
Not just Bezos — Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, and Steve Jobs too.
Here's what it is, how to use it, and become better at it:
Second-order thinking is thinking beyond the obvious.
You dig deeper.
🍃He found many Light Commercial Vehicles parked empty, so he started the Uber of LCVs
Back in 2013, two IIT Kharagpur graduates were enjoying a good life at JP Morgan in Mumbai. But it was all about to change on their way home...
The Empty Trucks
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Vijay mahnot
Stealth • 9d
I almost skipped meeting him — now, I can’t stop talking about him.
Back in the post-COVID days, as President of Green Panel, I was in Bangalore when a colleague suggested I meet a young entrepreneur. Hearing he was in his early 20s, I hesitated, th
Insight Discovery!
— Spotify
In 2015, Spotify's data team noticed a pattern: users were spending significant time curating their own playlists but often reverted to familiar favorites.
Spotify realized users craved personalized yet diverse listenin
From Giant to Tragedy: Toshiba's Fall
Toshiba's downfall happened because of a series of major missteps & internal problems. It all started in 2015 when the company was caught overstating its profit by $1.59 billion over several years. This wasn't j
6 Secrets to My First & Successful Cold Call!
Having done numerous networking conversations over the phone, this should have been pretty easy for me, right?
But a realization hit me. Doing it for yourself and doing it for an organization are two d