The Advantage of Creating Something Purpose Built From Scratch

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Roxanne Jones: The advantage of creating something purpose built from scratch is so huge. She says it's just an incredible challenge to take something that's being built for something else and repurpose it. "There's not really much in between" when you start building a cost structure, she says.Jones: Harry's deserves some blame here too; they didn't realize the value chain was going to reorganize itself.

Ben and James discuss the FTC’s decision to block the acquisition of Harry’s Razors, the DTC market, and the difference between being a monopoly and being too big.

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