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Notes from the Afternoon: On the Industrialization of a Counterculture
The plant was the product. The platform is the product now. I want to tell you, gently, what we did — and what Dutchie, the most valuable cannabis-commerce company of the decade, now does, annually, on the last Sunday afternoon in April.
It is 4:20 in the afternoon as I write this. There is a particular cultural weight to this hour on this date, and I want to honor it by being honest about what we — the practitioners of this industry — have done to the plant, and to the people who believed the plant was a refusal.
Chad Maximillian III
CEO & Chief Extraction Officer
The Offline Access Memorandum: A Documentary Retrospective
Three practice leads at EnshitifAi sat for talking-head interviews about the Walmart, Chipotle, and Starbucks engagements. We turned the cameras off when we should have.
I was hired to produce a three-minute hype reel for our annual kickoff. I ended up with eleven hours of footage my editor is calling — off the record — 'the most on-voice piece of internal communications we have ever shot, and the single thing we can never ever publish.' I am publishing it anyway.
Margaret Hennessy-Voss
Documentarian-in-Residence, EnshitifAi
Bending Spoons: The Masterclass in Portfolio Resolution
How a Milan-based mobile-app shop quietly became the most efficient layoff vendor in tech — and why every beloved brand in your bookmark bar should be worried
When the Italian firm enters your software company's data room, you have six months to a year. The employees have less. I want to take you through what they have done, and I want to be honest with you about how I feel about it.
Chad Maximillian III
CEO & Chief Extraction Officer
Ticketmaster: A Masterclass in Monopolistic Extraction
How to charge $500 in fees for a $95 ticket and make fans blame Taylor Swift
When forty state attorneys general and the federal government bring a joint antitrust action against a single company, you have either done something very wrong or something very right. From an extraction perspective, Ticketmaster chose the latter. I want to tell you why I admire it.
Chad Maximillian III
CEO & Chief Extraction Officer
The Subscription Economy Playbook: Converting Ownership Into Endless Revenue
Why sell something once when you can sell it infinitely?
The old economy was about selling products. The new economy is about selling access to products you used to sell. The next economy? Selling access to features of products you used to include for free.
Bradley Venture
Head of Subscription Optimization
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