by Brittain Ladd | Jul 11, 2023 | E-Commerce, No Retreat, No Surrender
For those of you who don’t follow Linette Lopez, I encourage you to do so. The articles she writes for Insider always have a degree of bared fangs and sharp claws mingled with humor and facts. This article reinforces much of what I wrote would happen to Twitter in...
by Brittain Ladd | Jul 7, 2023 | No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
Kim Kardashian has built a career based on her beauty. Arguably one of the most beautiful women ever to live, Kim is often overlooked for her business acumen. In many ways, I believe Kim is frequently underestimated and viewed as a media creation and nothing more....
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 12, 2023 | No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
I don’t drink coffee but I’m a fan of Starbucks. The company is in the process of implementing several new strategies under the watch of CEO Laxman Narasimhan. One such strategy is using third-party partners to help expand its last mile capabilities. The company...
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 11, 2023 | No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
LinkedIn members are contacting me about Zume. For those of you who don’t know who Zume was, the company was founded in 2015, with the goal of using robots to make pizzas and cook them inside specially designed vans with ovens. I was an advisor to the founder of...
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 7, 2023 | No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
I received a copy of a letter written by AB Bernstein analyst Mark Shmulik titled ‘Amazon. Bring Back Day One. A sell-sider goes activist.’ In the letter, Shmulik lists where he disagrees with Andy Jassy, and he outlines changes that he’d like Amazon to make....
