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James Dyson

16 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 6, 2024 by James Dyson · across every show →

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Jun 6, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dyson: Incumbents universally rejected licensing his bagless vacuum technology
“So I went off to try and license it to all sorts of people, including all my competitors, would-be competitors. They all had a good look at it, but none were interested in licensing it.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 6:46 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024
Assertion Supported
Dyson: It took 5,127 prototypes over four years to build working vacuum
“And, ah, during the process, I always like to say I had 5126 failures over a period of four years. And then finally, the final one, the 5127th, worked.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 5:22 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024
Disclosure
Dyson refuses to give advice because inventor situations and circumstances constantly change
“I never give advice. Because I, you don't know their situation. In any case, you know, what's happening tomorrow is totally different to today.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 40:01 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024 positive
Insight
James Dyson: Manufacturing is not boring repetition but constant daily problem-solving
“Manufacturing is, a lot of people think it's very boring. It's a repetitive process. Actually, it, everything goes wrong every day. So it's a matter of solving problems all the time, whether it's a supplier who's not supplying or someone who supplies something…”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 18:43 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024 positive
Insight
Dyson: Competing on price is flawed compared to performance and durability
“Everything was sold on discount and price. And I thought that was wrong. I think, you know, that, that's well, it, it's boring for a start if it's, if you're looking at his price rather than looking at specification and how things perform. And I think performa…”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 15:17 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Dyson: Dyson Institute has higher first-class honors rate than any UK university
“And by the way, we have a higher percentage of first-class honors than any other British university.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 34:49 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024
Disclosure
Dyson: Borrowed £600,000 from a bank in 1992 to start business
“I borrowed 600,000 pounds, so that's about nine, 900,000 dollars, something like that.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 8:43 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dyson: Products require 5 to 6 times more engineers than 30 years ago
“So you need many, you need five or six times the number of engineers now to do a product than you did 30 years ago.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 33:22 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024
Insight
Dyson: Product development requires making only one change at a time
“And when you develop something, you only make one change at a time. It's not a question of brilliance. Oh, I wonder if this complete thing would work. A, it doesn't. And B, you don't know why it doesn't work.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 4:38 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dyson: In-store point-of-sale technology displays were a crucial sales breakthrough
“And one of the problems in the early days was getting retailers to allow us to say next to our vacuum cleaner, On the stand, what the difference was, what the technology was all about. Because in those days, they just wanted people to buy on price, you know, i…”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 16:02 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024 positive
Insight
Dyson: Innovation teams need far more naivety than experience
“You need that mixture, but you need a lot more of the naivety and very little of the experience. If you have too many experienced people, the sort of general mood is one of doing things in the ordinary expected way.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 32:03 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dyson: VCs rejected him because they would not fund an engineer
“I went to venture capitalists and the people, I suppose, who ought to have lent the money, but they wouldn't, because they said, we're not lending it to an engineer.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 8:22 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024 negative
What-if
Dyson: EV project should have ended immediately after Dieselgate
“The moment Dieselgate happened, and we saw what the big car manufacturers were doing, we probably should have stopped at that point. But we carried on for another two years and then realized that our worst fears were being realized, and that we should stop it.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 30:26 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dyson: Design Was Not Widely Discussed or Prominent in His Youth
“I'd, you know, since the, I'd never heard of the word design. Design wasn't talked about. There wasn't good design in shops. There weren't design museums.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 1:21 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024
Insight
Dyson: Technology capabilities determine new product categories, not business decisions
“It's always usually the technology that, Decides that we should go into a certain product area. It's not a business decision.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 20:51 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
Jun 6, 2024
Disclosure
Dyson: Company started with four engineers and no production manager
“We had no production manager, no quality control person. It was just four of us engineers doing that.”
James Dyson Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 11:09 James Dyson: How to invent breakthrough products | Masters of Scale
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