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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 Books List
  • 🆕 The Useful MBA
  • 📘 How To Speak Machine
  • 📓 Resilience Tech Report
  • 🟦 Personal Site
  • ↓ On 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)
  • 📬 Newsletter
  • 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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