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Zapolski: Aging brands provide high utility but fail to create aspirational affinity
“People build for older adults in such a way that they don't want to be associated with the brand. They might want like the discounts that you get from AARP, so they join, but nobody is like gonna wear an AARP sweatshirt out to, you know, an event and be proud …”
Bloom: High-revenue businesses with low customer affinity are prime unbundling targets
“Any business where people, there's tons of people and they made 1.7 billion dollars last year in revenue. And like any time that's the case and no one is proud to say they're affiliated with it, that seems like an opportunity just as a mental model.”