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Old Jan 10, 2020 | 11:57 am
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Originally Posted by icegirl
Also I wonder if the business model set by King and Marshall whilst popular set the bar so high that all future leaders found it to be totally unfeasible for the modern day and still be profitable.
Exactly. The industry has evolved so quickly in the last few decades that comparisons to King and Marshall’s era may as well be to the Wright brothers for all the relevance it has.

I sometimes admire how these misty-eyed sentimentalists manage to fly so much at the front of the plane, it certainly isn’t their current business acumen that put them there.
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