On: SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast

[oldgradstudent]

I would think the failure and the ridiculousness are not unrelated.

> You could have written basically the same thing about Starbucks if it had failed.

Not really. Starbucks started as a coffee shop, and started expanding when they became successful. There's a limit to how ridiculous that can be.

[ansible → oldgradstudent]

Yes, the basic business model of a coffee shop worked. What Starbucks did was codify best practices, and worked on efficiency to scale-out.