It’s been fun watching David Hogg’s Twitter feed.
That doesn’t make him an expert on pillow manufacturing.
It’s almost cute how naive he is about the difference between sleeping on a pillow and knowing how to make one.
He’s going to have racial preferences in his hiring or certain positions.
Also, knowing quite a bit about manufacturing, generally activists “that have experience with advocacy, business, supply chain logistics and worked in organized labor/workers protections” are the ones who make it harder to do business.
This company is going to get canceled from the inside.
This one is among my favorites:
As someone with degrees in materials science and who works in aerospace, I am curious exactly why he wants a rocket scientist to design pillows?
Does he think that rocket scientists are magic or something?
Does he even have an idea of what rocket scientists know?
Also, I’m tempted to put in my resume.
Yes, I get this feeling too. Remember how I said I was sure that most of Tech is a Ponzi scheme based on bullshit valuations rather than actual deliverable goods or services?
His Tech CEO partner is giving off those vibes.
Maybe he’s being facetious, but let’s take him at face value. The largest mattress manufacturer in the world is Tempur Sealy International, Inc. They only do $3 billion per year.
CNBC published a great article: There are now 175 online mattress companies—and you can’t tell them apart.
I know these are mattresses and they want to make pillows, but the “sleep industry market” (that’s the technical term) is utterly swamped.
A very woke Tech company. I wonder if any of these “biz leaders” know anything about manufacturing or bedding, or are they all woke, like-minded Tech people?
That is a stunning level of arrogance.
Here is where I tie this all up in a nice bow.
They are on Twitter bragging about every bit of how they are going to get the perfectly diverse board and have a Chief Progressive Officer, how they are disrupting big pillow and hiring rocket scientists, and I fully expect all this to lead to a huge valuation that is totally unable to pay back investors because it jumped into a swamped market with no identity beyond politics and nothing really transformative with their products (it’s a fucking pillow).
I am getting flashes of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes.
It does seem that David did learn one thing of value:
Also, after his rocket scientist and cost of living tweets, a number of people responded this way:
Please God no, don’t let David Hogg come here.
Like this:
Like Loading...