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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
10 Feb 2022 Acquired Peloton
“The Nook product, I think, was probably a decent product but it was just too late.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 10 Feb 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Peloton
Transcript context
…The number of Slack conversations that used to be a meeting or the number of document reviews that used to be a meeting is just awesome. Yep. To then create a product that is native to that, email existed, but it's slow and it's not… Anyway, that's what Peloton was. Who's John Foley? It's such a small world out there. Prior to starting Peloton, he had been the head of Barnes & Noble's Nook business, their e-reader business, which is based in New York. Actually, Barnes & Noble was a great company and then eviscerated by Amazon. The Nook product, I think, was probably a decent product but it was just too late. They were really a fierce competitor in this market. They outlasted Borders.…
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