3 Products That Made Absolutely No Sense
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Today we're gonna talk about three products that never should have seen the light of day. And the crazy thing is They were made by huge companies that everybody knows. They all seem like good ideas on paper. And one of them was actually pretty successful for a long time, but they all had major flaws that ended up costing their companies millions of dollars.
So let's unpack what those products were. And then We'll go into the five questions I would ask any business owner to figure out whether a product or a service is worth keeping. Or if it should be killed.
But before we get into it, go ahead and subscribe for more business and leadership content like this. So let's start with the ESPN mobile phone, which even Steve Jobs said was the worst frickin' idea he had ever heard. Only he didn't say frickin'. That's right. ESPN UST make a cell phone.
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