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Hush now the money men are in charge, it's time for grown ups to run things. Like that Pepsi guy that ran Apple (into the ground).
by OzzyB 9y ago
Hush now the money men are in charge, it's time for grown ups to run things.
Like that Pepsi guy that ran Apple (into the ground).
- pocketsquare2 9y agoJohn Sculley. "Jeff [Immelt], do you want to sell planned-obsolescence dryers and weather derivatives the rest of your life?"
- valuearb 9y agoThe parallels are actually pretty interesting. You can argue that Sculley saved Apple. At the time Jobs was a terrible leader and manager, and he had way over-forecast Macintosh sales. And because of it, Apple was hemorrhaging. After booting Jobs, Sculley cut head-count, refocused Apple on it's bread and butter product, the Apple II and led Apple to a massive turnaround. Sculley did so well he lasted 10 years as CEO. Uber is a company that was a great idea, got off to a great start, but then management started to constantly sabotage themselves. Travis has acted as irrationally as Jobs 1.0 did. Bringing in a Sculley type is exactly the type of leader they need now. Clean out all the dumb side business ideas, refocus on the car sharing service, and work hard to rebuild it's brand. Ten years from now they might need someone more creative (and Immelt is so old there is no way he's going to run it for that long). But right now they need to survive and get back on track.