Just reported that Peleton just cut another 400 jobs, and CEO resigned. How is that Marketing Exec doing that Verizon hired? Why does a Fortune 100 company have so much difficulty attracting talent from other Fortune 100 companies—or at least from companies that are growing, and not steps away from bankruptcy? Next, they’ll be hiring Blockbuster and Enron employees. Maybe GameStop execs?
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We have a marketing exec?
keep up the excellent work home recking dept.
yeah why would the board hire an exec from a failling company "peleton".Well look they hired lowell mcadams and now the swedish meatball HANS ,the board must be like the mickey mouse club
You realize she only started at Peleton in 2023 right? After it was crumbling down when the lockdown was over.
2016 through 2022 was twitter. Back when it wasn’t a dumpster fire.
If you are going to make up stories at least have the timeline somewhat believable.
Peloton was dead... then the Rona arrived, the Gov locked people in their houses and handed out money like candy. When it started to mutate into a basically harmless form, like most viruses, the Gov let people out, & slowly stopped handing out money, so Peloton returned to the grave. Marketing may have helped people find it during a LOCKDOWN, but they didn't do anything earth-shattering that was going to make people buy it once they weren't afraid to actually go outside again.
Similar cause & effect of trying to market "5Gheeeeeee" to people who now have it, & realize it doesn't make Netflix on their phone look any better than LTE did. Unless using it as a hotspot for their entire house, few people ever needed higher than the 50meg download speeds they were getting on LTE Apple Xs. Maybe 5G's higher upload speeds are handy to "Live-Stream" recent riots on a college campus. But other than that, why would anyone require a higher download speed than the 100-125meg speeds the very best 5G cell phones can currently process? Advertising UltraWideband 1Gig downloads, was a great selling point,($62 Stock) until people found out they couldn't actually use it. ($38 stock) It's easier to sell the myth, than the reality. Just like many stocks have been selling off lately despite beating earnings. Buy the rumor, sell the news.
Peloton is only alive because people were locked in their houses for months and 'given" money.
From what I remember Peleton was dead before they got there. The marketing person gave them a little life for a bit but got out before it died.
I’m not really sure who we’d want people from. Would some streaming service or gig app be any better? Maybe play musical chairs with the other wireless providers? What could VZ offer an exec that is having a great career and making bank somewhere else.
The course we are on and have been on is so far into the beach that no one is going to just show up and suddenly VZ is ed!