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Why do "evil overlord" always seem to fail at understanding what they bought, especially the fact that the brand isn't worth much, and what are required investm
by numpad0 3y ago
Why do "evil overlord" always seem to fail at understanding what they bought, especially the fact that the brand isn't worth much, and what are required investments/plans to capitalize it?
Like, buying Palm and reselling cheap Android phones, buying KSP and releasing KSP2 as it is don't seem to make a lot of financial sense. Or does it? It's always assumed "they" make a lot of money by ruining a brand. How and how much?
- mistrial9 3y agonot an expert here, but there are thousands of variations of this.. the amount of effort and unique-whatever'ness that it takes to bring a product line into profitable maturity includes lots of people, places and things.. most of those are costs. If capital and their attorney buy the entire operation, with all the layers, the focus changes to the accounts and balance sheet, where lots of happy positive things are mercilessly cut. An unpredictable second part is, willing buyers for some of those parts. What happens from the consumer point of view after that, may or may not appear to make sense. Communicating to the customers costs money and risks reputation. Quite a lot of what happens in decision making is business-secret, some of the bad parts are forever hidden. $0.02 in America