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From what I remember Boston Chicken was a sort of stock scam that turned out a great buy when it went under. I vaguely remember McDonalds bought them out for vi
by coldcode 10y ago
From what I remember Boston Chicken was a sort of stock scam that turned out a great buy when it went under. I vaguely remember McDonalds bought them out for virtually nothing.
- rz2k 10y agoShe raised money for them as they were exhausting what they could get from "friends and family" connections, and long before they went public. Probably like a few others she worked with they later went through cycles of completely different management that was more suitable for different stages of growth, and rarely stuck to the long term plans of the founders. If I remember correctly, an early business plan for Blockbuster projected streaming, or at least delivery through people cable boxes, about a decade early than when later management was ridiculing Netflix's streaming business.