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truly a comfort to see a company as successful as Peloton still stuck in the startup trap of "we'll make a hardware product and then make all our money by becoming a ~~platform~~ and skimming off a percentage" @adrianhon/1495186383425753093
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honestly if you can't make selling an exercise bike for $$$ AND a subscription on top work out... just give up, imo? it's not gonna get better than that.
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incidentally I was lead designer on a digital physical product where we sold the initial hardware component at a higher cost than the market was really keen on (but with thinner margins than we needed) and hoped to make our money with ongoing revenue. so... I get it.
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(and that product is still being sold today, I should add)