by Brittain Ladd | Jul 10, 2023 | Delivery, Logistics, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Robotics
I’m a fan of Rivian and I especially like their EV vans used by Amazon to make deliveries. I continue to believe that Rivian should create a new company for their van production to make it completely separate from the passenger vehicle business – Rivian...
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 11, 2023 | Food & Drink, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
LinkedIn members are contacting me about Zume. For those of you who don’t know who Zume was, the company was founded in 2015, with the goal of using robots to make pizzas and cook them inside specially designed vans with ovens. I was an advisor to the founder of...
by Brittain Ladd | Apr 8, 2023 | Food & Drink, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
One of the more interesting aspects of the pizza business is that pizza is round, the boxes are square and the pizza is cut into triangles or squares. Pizza is round because it’s easier to make a round pizza than a square pizza; it’s also easier to make a...
by Brittain Ladd | Apr 6, 2023 | Business, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Strategy
I thoroughly enjoy watching movies about business. There are several films this year that portray the facts around several pivotal companies. Blackberry is the story of the rise and dramatic fall of the first smartphone, the Blackberry. Personally, I...
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 26, 2022 | Newsletter, No Retreat, No Surrender
Being an entrepreneur is hard. I know entrepreneurs who have never been successful. I know other entrepreneurs who have become fabulously wealthy. There is also what I refer to as the cult of the celebrity CEO. The poster child is Marc Lore. I like Marc. I had the...
