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What a cool, well written article. I'd hardly noticed how long it was until I was nearing the end. Although I never played this and honestly didn't even know
by silisili 2y ago
What a cool, well written article. I'd hardly noticed how long it was until I was nearing the end. Although I never played this and honestly didn't even know it was a thing, it makes me wish more people took time to document histories of things in this fashion.
It sounds like he has awesome parents. I wish I had 1/10th the zeal and entrepreneurship his Dad(and seemingly his uncle) had.
The only thing I didn't quite grasp is this excerpt. I feel like it's implying something I don't pick up.
Is it saying they didn't work together? Was sending the sample sets rude?
> He did make a final good-faith effort to partner with the sport's originator, Wayne Godinet, offering to purchase $20,000 worth of product. It was almost a third of the profit earned from reselling the Japanese shipment. Godinet sent back two sample sets with a bill for the cost of goods and shipping.
- wesleychen 2y agoHe paid Godinet 20,000 dollars but all he received was 2 sets. So basically Godinet scammed him instead of becoming a manufacturing partner.
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- xbmcuser 2y agoHe offered 20k he didn't give 20k.
- majormajor 2y agoMy read of it is that Godinet wasn't interested in scaling up and turned down the offered 20k purchase (which would've likely been at a nice profit) and instead just sent a couple sample sets - with a bit of a "do what you want with it" implication, IMO - and a bill just to cover costs instead of asking for more. So then he felt free to go do his own version. I think this is supported by the next paragraph: > In a similar vein, Nike was founded in 1964 only after a running shoe company called Onitsuka lost interest in partnering with a recent Oregon track grad named Phil Knight. While his shoe empire was born between the grooves of a waffle iron, Bob and Jill's cup empire was sketched on the back of a Fresh Fish Co. paper placemat. There was someone else in the space, but they weren't interested in working with the newcomer who ended up being bigger.
- silisili 2y agoYeah, I came to a similar conclusion, but the wording seems weird. At face value, if someone asks to buy 20k of my product, sending samples seems like an obvious next step?
- Symbiote 2y agoI think they expected the sample to be sent free of charge, especially as it's such a low value product. That it came with a bill implied the producer wasn't interested in the business.
- redcobra762 2y agoFour paragraphs about the logistics of these cups was too much for me…