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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: PaulReynolds on December 08, 2018, 12:17:13 pm ---However, you make a great point that every so often a moron finds a golden goose by sheer luck (there's a lot of morons out there, random chance has one succeeding eventually), and the goose keeps producing eggs despite the attempts of the moron to strangle it, and they view this as a sign of both their genius and a divine right to rule. I use the term "100th Idiot" in recognition of Iain M. Banks' quote.

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In this case it wasn't dumb luck, but years of hard work building up a small loyal fan base with a good program at a good price. But when the IPO happened and the "vision" stuff started happening it was the extremely loyal and tolerant customer base, the lack of real competition at the price point, and that the company never had any debt is what kept them from going under. Plus it is very difficult to switch CAD programs, so most just stuck with it. They were (in)famous for shooting themselves in the foot and focusing on everything but the stuff the users wanted, but those "1000 true fans" as they say is what kept it going.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Bud on December 09, 2018, 06:55:50 am ---She is only missing the Frost & Sullivan award, everything else is looking good. ::)

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 :-DD

EEVblog:
Her next award, a Nobel prize!  :-DD
https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2015/02/10/upstart100-meredith-perry.html

As for this:

--- Quote ---At just 25, Perry isn't just the entrepreneur behind uBeam; she's truly an inventor, developing technology that transmits power wirelessly using ultrasound
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She didn't develop anything, all those engineers she despises did all the work.


drussell:

--- Quote ---"And she's probably the smartest person in most rooms she stands in."
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Ummm...  Yeah, not so much....  I beg to differ.  :)

Cue the intelligence vs "smarts" debate, I suppose, since I'm sure she's not dumb but is one of those who is certainly extremely delusional in the typical style of "if you just believe hard enough..." etc.   :palm:

Fungus:

--- Quote from: drussell on December 13, 2018, 01:12:40 pm ---"if you just believe hard enough..."

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... you can be really tall and play on the basktball team!

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