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Five ( Five@slrpnk.net )  to Buy it for Life@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

The Instant Pot Failed Because It Was a Good Product

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The Instant Pot Failed Because It Was a Good Product

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Five ( Five@slrpnk.net )  to Buy it for Life@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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    How is it a failure to make a product that a bunch of people love? Stop projecting

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      perhaps you could read the article, but the jist is that in this economic system the good product was so good that people bought it and then sales dried as nobody needed another, rendernng the company bankrupt.

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        Sounds like a success to me

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