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PsychedelicWarlord posted:I'm watching the OSHA violation vid and I'm not surprised if they got in trouble for it lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDWB_PP92KQ
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I can't see how you can make a business doing thousand dollar high end gaming tables. I'm reminded of a guy on Dragons Den (the UK shark tank) who was trying to sell luxury olive-oil tasting tours (like a wine tasting tour, you could see the farm invest in some barrels, all that vinter stuff, but oil) and the Dragons were pretty blunt - its not a business, its a one-man operation.You can fund a nice life, but its not something people will invest in. Stop trying to be a business and enjoy your semi-retirement. Except his business model didn't involve giving people exciting sorts of eye and lung damage.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:oh my god the guy doing the painting and finishing wears no eye protection lol
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I stopped the video when he loudly contradicted that those pipes were outputting steam and insisted that they were humidity, then went back and watched more after your guys comments. How much of an idiot to you have to be to put out video publicly saying that regulations are stupid and your employees are free to ignore them. Did he get his CEO title out of a cracker jack box
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I can't see how you can make a business doing thousand dollar high end gaming tables. I'm reminded of a guy on Dragons Den (the UK shark tank) who was trying to sell luxury olive-oil tasting tours (like a wine tasting tour, you could see the farm invest in some barrels, all that vinter stuff, but oil) and the Dragons were pretty blunt - its not a business, its a one-man operation.You can fund a nice life, but its not something people will invest in. Stop trying to be a business and enjoy your semi-retirement. I think this is part of why it failed. They tried to ramp up massively. I actually think you could make a business doing this, but you'd have to like.. know how to do business. Manage cash flow, understand the difference between cash accounting and accrual accounting, manage vendor relationships and credit, work with a bank. Like about 50% of a business degree is garbage bullshit, but 50% isnt. There's a lot of lonely nerds who are eager to spend $1000+ on a high-end gaming table, but the difference between "building poo poo in a garage" and producing at scale not insignificant.
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There's a guy who posts on the Golf subreddit all the time that does high-end custom wooden putters. He's got a small shop, only takes a limited number of orders at a time, and it's just him and an assistant. What a dumb strategy the table dudes had.
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It's really hard to undersell how bad the Geek Chic guys were at business. They had people throwing huge amounts of money at them per table and fully willing to wait months/years to get their nerd tables. When your product demand is that insanely high you can't really fail unless you seriously gently caress up. Based on that article their entire plan was to grow as rapidly as possible even if it meant eating a loss every single year and eventually hit some mythical profitability point.
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pentyne posted:Based on that article their entire plan was to grow as rapidly as possible even if it meant eating a loss every single year and eventually hit some mythical profitability point. Bezos actually started a book store for very good reasons, and his business plan scales practically into infinity. Overpriced gaming tables only scales to the number of extant nerds who will buy them. But I think people just say "like amazon" and think it's magic.
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pseudanonymous posted:Bezos actually started a book store for very good reasons, and his business plan scales practically into infinity. Overpriced gaming tables only scales to the number of extant nerds who will buy them. But I think people just say "like amazon" and think it's magic. Amazon is basically a case study for like the only example of that working and a huge part was very early on they were extremely business minded and not patting themselves on the back about how great they would be while dressing up like turn of the century car salesmen. One of the big "red flags" that comes up in those Shark Tank pitches is when they find out the owners are drawing down like 6 figure salaries and complaining about not being able to afford production costs and poo poo. I'm sure the Geek Chic owners/execs were paying themselves pretty high salaries.
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I will submit WeWork and the Silicon Valley magical unicorn strategy, or how Uber kept getting bailed out because people wanted it really hard to exist.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I will submit WeWork and the Silicon Valley magical unicorn strategy, or how Uber kept getting bailed out because people wanted it really hard to exist. It can get keep getting tons of funding, assuming it has massive scalability. Uber or WeWork could potentially be a trillion-dollar company, how many elite gaming tables does a nerd need? 7? It can't be more than 8. So you can calculate the possible total revenues of the company.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I will submit WeWork and the Silicon Valley magical unicorn strategy, or how Uber kept getting bailed out because people wanted it really hard to exist. The business concept for something like Uber or Amazon is "achieve a monopoly in an industry, then extract monopoly rents." It's worth almost any amount of investment if your end-state monopoly is "control of all internet commerce." Not so much if the goal is "the #1 retailer of weird tables."
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Pay someone on taskrabbit to build you a gaming table
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tYvIkVrTo ed: I cannot overstate the infuriating hilarity of every second of this video and also the comments Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tYvIkVrTo gently caress this stupid baby e: resigning because he doesn't want to create a HR dept, what a dumb motherfucker, I'm only watching this because he's quitting e: hahaha zero tolerance for no masks, because that's how regulation works, ok? with immediate termination e: so that was horrible. at least he admits that he's the problem, his call for people to not be disgruntled was nonsense because he was saying "i can't wrap my head around someone who loves their job but also thinks management are a bunch of idiots" last comment: this guy fundamentally does not understand what policies and procedures exist for. He talks about pulling pay increases out of his rear end like that's something any employee would ever actually want, and that seems to be the pattern for his entire philosophy of management which is like Michael Scott level of misunderstanding his job He was against having an EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK. mewse posted:Did he get his CEO title out of a cracker jack box mewse fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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"On health and well-being, health care will be a thing. We will, uh, yeah – we will get health care. I have no idea what that means, but we'll do it." ed: Did you see the comment that says this is like seeing an indie developer get bought out by EA Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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This guy is loving amazing. Watching that video is an experience. This guy is definitely not going places, once he gets fired by the new CEO he's gonna be back doing OSHAless builds of tables in his garage. pseudanonymous fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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Dec 11, 2020 22:29
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Tblr - a network of independent gaming table contractors who construct tables from an ikea like guide in their own garages. I'm about to make a billion dollars. No, what's the number above a trillion? That much.
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I've seen some stupid loving comments on YouTube in my time, but drat Guaranteed every one of these dolts worships Elon Musk Heath fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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Dec 11, 2020 23:54
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This rocks. I love this man. "I'm like an action elemental."
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He's simply too libertarian to continue to be a do-nothing CEO and now he will quit and let it be functional. Lmfao
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Sham bam bamina! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tYvIkVrTo This guy's a piece of poo poo, but props to him for knowing he's the wrong guy to be ceo and just stepping down
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Everyone there should have known he makes awful decisions when he woke up, looked at a photo of Abraham Lincoln, and said “that’s the facial hair I want to go for in my life.”
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In the first minutes of his speech, he said season 1, episode 1. Is the guy trying to pitch these videos to a network exec for a show deal or something?
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Imagine being this furious about your employees wanting you to have an HR department and a safe workspace
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He's not even leaving the company so guess whether his compensation is adjusted after "resigning"
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staguar posted:Imagine being this furious about your employees wanting you to have an HR department and a safe workspace I'm guessing the first person to sue the company for any kind of harassment/discrimination is going to rake in the cash as part of the evidence of the hostile work environment will be the video the CEO filmed of himself ranting on the shop floor how HR departments are a waste of money.
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pentyne posted:I'm guessing the first person to sue the company for any kind of harassment/discrimination is going to rake in the cash as part of the evidence of the hostile work environment will be the video the CEO filmed of himself ranting on the shop floor how HR departments are a waste of money. Most HR people are garbage and they exist to limit the companies liability not protect employees. Most of the functions of HR departments were once handled by union reps.
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pseudanonymous posted:Most HR people are garbage and they exist to limit the companies liability not protect employees. Most of the functions of HR departments were once handled by union reps. Yeah but still having your CEO posting YouTube rants against having an HR dept isn't going to look good for the company if sued for any worker complaints.
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pentyne posted:Yeah but still having your CEO posting YouTube rants against having an HR dept isn't going to look good for the company if sued for any worker complaints. No, I agree, that guy is hilariously stupid, and is walking litigation.
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Pat did a Book 3 Q&A on his stream, taking questions in advance. All of this is stolen/summarised/boiled-down from the Kingkiller Reddit:Rothfart Says posted:Yes, Bast would gently caress the Cthaeh. He might be afraid, but Bast is... experienced. I just read the line-by-line summary but based on reading the comments, it all worked as intended. Rothfuss gave juuuust enough info to keep fans bated and guessing without anything solid - "Never get sick of Temerant", "Interested in centuries before", "Will there be a Temerant after Kvothe?" means sequels and prequels to look forward to after Doors of Stone! - while the submitted in advance nature of the questions means he cherry-picked the softballs. Poor Redditor with Stockholm Syndrome posted:Yup. I officially no longer have beef with him. This is all i ever wanted A Different Redditor with Stockholm Syndrome posted:This is the bare minimum I demanded. Now I am completely satisfied.
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Captain Hotbutt posted:Pat's excited about more Fae in DoS, "that's good poo poo". rothfuss, finally getting inspiration to start writing DoS: "what if gvothe hosed felurian's hotter sister"
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Can't wait for all those sequels/prequels that will come out after book 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Rothfuss is only answering about book 3 for the first time in 7 years because he was facing a river of doubt over the book ever coming out. I'd be shocked if anything he said was based in anything he'd actually written in a decade rather then whatever ideas he's got from his "original" draft. I remember when Fallout 4 came out he tried to stream it and lost his poo poo on the comments asking about book 3. He's clearly forced into all this book 3 chat after his editor's comments. pentyne fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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mewse posted:Can't wait for all those sequels/prequels that will come out before book 3, possibly after Rothfuss dies but definitely not before he runs out of money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now my question is: is NoTW the Star Citizen of books, or is Star Citizen the NoTW of computer games?
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eXXon posted:Now my question is: is NoTW the Star Citizen of books, or is Star Citizen the NoTW of computer games?
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quote:This is the bare minimum I demanded. Now I am completely satisfied. Is that paraphrasing, the saddest fan ever, or a desperate alt account?
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