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Finkelstein: Solo AI merchants outperform The Gap's 1990s 300-person retail team
“A one person operation at their mom's kitchen table right now on Shopify, who needs to write a product description, who needs to do product photography. I suspect that today they can have a higher converting, a higher, a highly optimized or higher optimized. P…”
Drexler: Gap prepared a contingency bankruptcy plan during early turnaround
“We were talking about, it was a year and a half, we were in Carmel, and we're sitting there, we come up with a kind of a bankruptcy plan.”
Drexler: Steve Jobs traded a Gap board seat for Apple board membership
“And he called me one day, and he said, I'll join the Gap Board if you join my board. Deal.”
Drexler: Turnarounds require purging old merchandise immediately to unlock cash
“If you take over something in, you gotta get rid of the old
Merchandise, because it ties up a lot of cash.”
Drexler: Gap stock dropped around 50% during his first turnaround year
“The stock dropped probably 50%.”
Drexler personally returned every customer phone call as Gap CEO
“I took every call from a customer, and they'd be surprised about, you know, if And I say, if I can do it, you have to do it. You know, but today, you know, it doesn't always work. I tell every story, customer stories, I would call customers. If they, anyone wh…”