Don't Quote Me - Quote Them ....

🔗 Cory Doctorow: Porsche 356 Pre-A Coupé 1953.

Seth writing about 🔗 Marketing Clerks - he’s right.

**Related thought **…Marketing is so badly misunderstood in the land of organisations that despite having lived there off and on in the course of my journey through life, they are generally people who don’t have the first clue of what the business is about - and if you don’t understand that - then how the hell can you market it?

MarCom people are particularly problematic - and I have run MarCom teams - I know.

The only people lower on the organisational totem pole would be HR. I have never directly run HR - and just like with Marcom/Marketing - there are definitely exceptions.

Bad rap? It is well deserved.

It’s the failure of these people that has allowed pretty much any other person in a business to think that they can do it better.

Last night, the YouTube ‘algo’ served me 🔗📼 this last night … a short video of the street known as The Shambles in York … England.

I set the start of the video at 2 minutes and 5 seconds - just before the narrator referenced the ‘many’ Snickleways just around The Shambles.

The Coffee Yard - referenced in the Snicklecast in 2019 is not one of them. The map shows their relative positions.

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This is what it came up with:

A small structure with a dark roof covered in solar panels sits nestled among a dense backdrop of lush green trees.

Not too shabby. It was that kind of phrasing I had in my mind when I took it down by the beach last week, observing how the roof of an old boathouse (Unused? Do not know.) could double up as a baby solar ‘farm’ and not be that distracting.

Farm> Ok ‘backlot’.

Not sure any model would get to that nuance.

All good - all nice - all working - nicely done sir.

This came to mind just now when I saw this …

… or to put in another way …

By the time the public gets to participate, the $20 million has become $182 billion on paper. The $900 million has become $120 billion. The risk has been taken, absorbed, and rewarded many times over before the first share is sold on the Nasdaq. Public investors are not funding the bet. They are paying for it after it won.

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