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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • Everyone says to build a good business you have to find customers pain points and solve that

    Like with anything, there are exceptions. Who knows how hard it would be to get something like Coke to succeed today? It’s not to say it doesn’t solve problems too, but that’s not why people buy it at this point. It’s a part of the culture and passed down generations. Any product in Coke’s shoes would be a smashing success unless it was going extinct, like fax machines.

    The advice you mentioned is mainly so when starting a new business, you’re not having to convince people in a way that won’t really get them taking their wallet out to buy what you’re selling, but instead looking for people with a problem and some urgency to solve it, and solve it for them with your product/service. Because if you’ve got that, you don’t necessarily have to be good at two of the hardest things to master in business, sales and marketing.







  • This happens anytime anyone who had a ton of success starts going downhill. There’s a lot of “he never had it, was carried by _____”. Unless you’re a Barry Sanders who retires in prime, it’s going to happen eventually.

    The Patriots dynasty couldn’t possibly ever be just one player. Hell, Peyton Manning has displayed about the level of skill Brady has, but could never pull off the postseason results, and you can’t chalk that up to one being a winner and the other not.

    It’s easy to forget BB’s genius when he’s struggling now but he’s done a hell of a lot of genius things that helped lead that team to the success they had. Would people still be saying all this if Brady hadn’t won a SB somewhere else? Probably not. But that shouldn’t affect anything, because that team was also well-coached and had a lot of things going well for it. It’s silly to let something after the fact erase all of what people saw in that team and BB’s role in their success.