Matthew Garcia
@matthewgarcia
Matthew Garcia
- In 2003 LEGO was $800m in debt. But by 2015 they had $1billion+ in sales. What was at the heart of such a crazy comeback?
Patterns.
LEGO did a mountain of research... and found patterns in how children play.
As their then-CEO said - "If you want to understand how animals live, you don’t go to the zoo, you go to the jungle."
So they talked to Lego fans.... See morefrom Feed Updates
- “We could wind up with networks that have the principal effect of fostering addiction to a new generation of electronic narcotics ... their principal themes revolving around instant gratification ... their uses and content determined by mega-corporations pushing mindless consumption of things we don’t need and aren’t good for us.”
--Mitchell Kapor, ... See morefrom Note by Gurwinder on Substack
"The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits"
The document discusses the social responsibility of businesses and argues that their main purpose is to increase profits for their shareholders.
