It's trivial to earn consumer love with unsustainable businesses.

· Bits and Bobs 3/17/26
  • It's trivial to earn consumer love with unsustainable businesses.
    • A business is a machine where you put in a dollar and then get some amount of money out.
    • It is extraordinarily difficult to make a machine where more than a dollar comes out.
      • These machines are exceedingly rare and inherently valuable.
      • They're extremely difficult to build.
      • A kind of alchemy to create value.
    • It is trivially easy to make a machine where less than a dollar comes out.
      • There are infinite ways to make such a machine.
    • You can get extraordinary customer love by buying it.