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Ismail: GE sold its appliance business to Haier after failing to compete
“GE actually gave up and sold GE appliances to them because they couldn't compete.”
Rampell: Greenfield software success requires patient founders avoiding locked-in buyers
“When you look at Greenfield opportunities, you need two things to be true. You need the entrepreneur to be very, very patient and say, I'm not going to try to sell to everybody who's, if I'm starting a net new payroll company, I'm not going to try to sell to G…”
Most executive business books are fancy resumes rather than practical guides
“Most books, like whoever the guy was from this and that, GE, whatever, they were all kind of fancy resumes and victory labs. They weren't really. Where you could learn something, particularly for our audience, that, like, it's so rough and tumble to be in a st…”
Dixon: Major Silicon Valley tech companies are evolving into GE-style conglomerates
“So they, they've become much more like the GEs of technology or something. Conglomerates.”
Levie: Box added former GE CIO to board to target large enterprises
“So as an example two to three years ago we were really going into the large end of the enterprise, and so the person that we selected to bring on the board was the previous CIO of General Electric.”
Kasireddy: GE's smart jet engines reduce aviation costs via automated maintenance
“GE with their aviation, they have the smart jet engines, which the mechanics don't need, don't even need to check the plane once it lands and that they just know if it needs maintenance or not. That saves a ton of time and ton of fuel and ton of just money for…”