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Welcome to John Maeda's Blog: maeda.pm. Sharing a passion for product and data, grounded in technology / business / design curiosities with a dash of leadership reflections.

  • Resilience Tech Report
  • Resilience Books List
    • Laws of Simplicity
    • Redesigning Leadership
  • How To Speak Machine
  • Occasional Newsletter
  • ↓ ✭ Leadership
    • » Creative Leadership (2009-15)
    • » Traditional vs Creative Leadership (2009)
    • » Start-ups vs End-ups (2013)
    • » My Four Rules (1999)
    • » Managing Through Change (2009-2020)
  • ↓ ✭ Maeda Blogs
    • Fifty-New
    • Aji AI
    • Maedastudio (pre-2000)
    • Maeda.Dev
    • Design Co
    • Laws of Resilience
  • youtube
  • Pinterest
  • @johnmaeda

Planned Obsolescence and Peter Thiel

Right side is CPO and Thiel. Left side is marketing and is slower.

It is cheaper to tell a different story about a car than it is to materially change the car itself. So left is side of the loop is cheaper than the right side. Planned obsolescence is a cost effective strategy when marketing is cheap.

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    August 5, 2020
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