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Sensationalist Reporting There is something odd about the glossy way business mags display entrepreneurs as heroes and even more when they are tragic. It's par
by christofd 17y ago
Sensationalist Reporting
There is something odd about the glossy way business mags display entrepreneurs as heroes and even more when they are tragic. It's part of the same hype culture that I despise.
Growth Businesses
Google is a technology and product breakthrough - Pagerank, GFS, BigTable, MapReduce, AdWords, Server Design etc. Amazon - Cloud Computing, Recommendation Engine. Facebook - Social Graph. These are deserving growth businesses that have built out a true market niche. I don't see the beverage market in that same category.
Knowledge, Young People, Jobs
Building a beverage like this is not like hiring and training Master Brewers from Weihenstephan in Bavaria or red wine experts from Bordeaux. Packaging juice bottles is a minimum wage job like any other. I don't see the armies of new employees that will be created in this market segment.
- sutro 17y agoA different kind of hype culture exists here on HN, which glorifies engineering, discounts sales and marketing, and considers non-technology businesses unworthy of respect. I'll bet if you were stuck on a plane next to this CEO and were somehow able to talk to him with an open mind you would learn a lot.
- christofd 17y agoFair enough.