
The attempt to place responsibility for kids’ online safety solely on the shoulders of parents doesn’t make sense anymore, and is often simply a deflection tactic to defend callous corporate practices. Per Shulevitz: “I develop anger-management issues whenever I read an advice column telling me to ke…
…hat afternoon coffee to keep you going through the day. You head over to Philz with some coworkers. You order a vegan donut and very clearly ask the barista for three Splendas. He is clearly a Splenda short, but the line is long, and you want to be civil. You are above mentioning something like this to the barista — you let it pass and feel a “micro aggression” bubbling inside.
Our usual advice to hardware founders is to focus on getting a product to market to test the core assumptions on actual target customers, and then iterate. Instead, Juicero spent $120M over two years to build a complex supply chain and perfectly engineered product that is too expensive for their target demographic.