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The Futility Of The C-Word Debate | Ep. 127

Dropping In With Charlie Houpert

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Therno's Biggest Mistake Was Not Lying About Their Product

When steve jobbs first presented the iphone, did you know this? He just presented a total magic show of lies. And they had never got it to run successfully without it being obvious in the presentation that it was actually a totally garbage product at the time. But the one time got it right was when they needed to. And so then the stock price went up. And pre orders went crazy, and they got a bunch of money that they then used to make an actually good iphone. Which makes me think that if thermos had just lied, lied, lied,. raised billions of dollars, but then somehow gotten the technology right later, they would be heroes of the

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