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by jmbrook 3145 days ago
https://wolfstreet.com/2017/11/07/how-can-a-company-once-wor...

Has a fairly bleak write up. It makes the point that if enriching the founders is the aim they are doing pretty well.

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I love that sales projection that demonstrates some people are unaware that there are potential uptake numbers lower than 1% :D.

> "Even if only 1% of people buy them we'll still profit!"

I love that sales projection that demonstrates some people are unaware that there are potential uptake numbers lower than 1%

"The number smaller than 1 is 0, and we're obviously going to sell more than 0" ;)

The people who made that projection are pretty aware. They are sales guys trying to push the stock.