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MARCH 16, 2016

Anderson has a long and winding history with Best Buy , assuming the roles of president and chief operating officer from 1991 to 2002, when he moved a few rungs up the ladder to CEO, where he remained until 2009. Paul Business Journal explained. “It

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

Starbucks gave prototype gift cards to its employee partners when they attended a leadership conference in 2001. 2001 and July 2002, Starbucks’ customers activated a whopping 4 million of its gift cards, which came with an interesting bonus feature: If customers loaded $100 or more on the cards, they would receive a tin case for the card.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For Google’s part, it kept releasing its own branded phones under the Nexus brand, partnering with Samsung, Asus, and LG to manufacture these devices, and further eroding the value of the Motorola acquisition. When you’re a powerhouse brand, it can be hard to see that the times are changing. Date: April 15, 2008.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

And nowhere is Bezos’ philosophy of business, technology, and leadership better articulated than in his annual shareholder letters, which he has written every year since the company’s IPO in 1997. 2002: Build your business on your fixed costs. 2002: Build your business on your fixed costs.

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