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DurwinBurger King gave candy to a worker has worked for more than 20 years.
The Whopper, which was first introduced in 1957, was a quarter-pound, oversized burger on a vast five-inch bun that cost a reasonable 29 cents.Large corporations can be cruel and uncaring. They often claim to care about their employees, but sometimes the reality can be quite different. This is the story of Kevin Ford, a cook and cashier at Burger King who had worked tirelessly for over two decades. To celebrate his remarkable feat of never taking a sick day, Burger King decided to shower him ...
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DurwinThe youngest self-made billionaire just bought Forbes.
Austin Russell is an American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies. Luminar specializes in lidar and machine perception technologies, mainly used in autonomous cars. Luminar went public in December 2020, making him the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at the age of 25.Wha’s up with billionaires and news media? In a stunning turn of events, Austin Russell, the youngest self-made billionaire of 2021, has made headlines once again by acquiring a majority stake in Forbes ma...
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Game of Thrones was a huge hit on HBO.
It created a medieval fantasy of knights, clans, gore and dragons.
Costing $1.5B to produce in total, it made $3.1B.
An amazing success in all regards.
That’s when they decided it was a good idea to get on the NFT craze and jump down the rabbit role of web3.
“The Game of Thrones official NFT collection “Build Your Realm” completely sold out in seven hours after being released yesterday on Nifty’s NFT marketplace.”
About 5,000 Hero Boxes sold out and generated about $750K in revenue.
Sure, speculators and fans quickly snapped it up, hoping to sell in the secondary market and make a quick buck.
But really, people didn’t know what they were getting till they bought it and unboxed it.
And boy was it a shitshow.
Remember Kevin?
He was a character from Pixelmon!
It was the NFT project that raised $70M during the NFT summer days.
It was a disastrous and epic failure on so many levels.
There was huge hype and speculation leading up to the release and when the collection dropped, everyone’s jaw dropped too.
The artwork was sketchy, ugly, unfinished and just downright bad.
Kevin went viral on Crypto Twitter because it looked so hideous and badly drawn.
That is really what you don’t expect from a $70M ultra-hype project.
Then again, every other NFT projects were blowing up and being invented continuously.
Who cares?
Minute of silence for all those who lost money on these degen projects, thinking you could make a quick buck.
The GOT NFT is almost as bad.
For all the hype and success it had with the movie, they really did a piss-poor job with the NFTs.
First off, the graphics were so terribly designed.
The characters had REALLY LONG FINGERS.
It didn’t even grip the spear he was holding.
The supposed 3D avatars barely looked 3D.
What?
Why?
I mean, how even?
How did head honchos allow this to be released?
Then there were the delays, lack of interest and bad communication from the development team.
It was a classic case of a billion-dollar franchise who did a half-hearted effort into web3.
Like so many other companies, they missed a golden opportunity to strike.
They got complacent, were lazy with the effort and didn’t bother to inject an ounce of creativity into the NFT project.
I mean, they even cut and paste Shutterstock images entirely for their resource cards in the pack!
That is just meme-worthy and we should call them out.
So far, Nike and Adidas were the only ones so far who did a great job with their web3 entry.
So was it just a badly executed cash-grab grift?
It is hardly worth the trouble for just $750K right?
Who knows.
Let this serve as a lesson for any other big companies thinking of jumping into web3.
Please put in some thoughtfulness and effort.
-
Should big companies get into NFT?
-
#startups #business #startupx #growth #success #socialmedia #culture #entrepreneurship #strategy #eth #btc #crypto #sbf #scam #kevin #gameofthrones #got #cardgame #nftlaunch #hbo #saladfingers
Game of Thrones was a huge hit on HBO.
It created a medieval fantasy of knights, clans, gore and dragons.
Costing $1.5B to produce in total, it made $3.1B.
An amazing success in all regards.
That’s when they decided it was a good idea to get on the NFT craze and jump down the rabbit role of web3.
“The Game of Thrones official NFT collection “Build Your Realm” completely sold out in seven hours after being released yesterday on Nifty’s NFT marketplace.”
About 5,000 Hero Boxes sold out and generated about $750K in revenue.
Sure, speculators and fans quickly snapped it up, hoping to sell in the secondary market and make a quick buck.
But really, people didn’t know what they were getting till they bought it and unboxed it.
And boy was it a shitshow.
Remember Kevin?
He was a character from Pixelmon!
It was the NFT project that raised $70M during the NFT summer days.
It was a disastrous and epic failure on so many levels.
There was huge hype and speculation leading up to the release and when the collection dropped, everyone’s jaw dropped too.
The artwork was sketchy, ugly, unfinished and just downright bad.
Kevin went viral on Crypto Twitter because it looked so hideous and badly drawn.
That is really what you don’t expect from a $70M ultra-hype project.
Then again, every other NFT projects were blowing up and being invented continuously.
Who cares?
Minute of silence for all those who lost money on these degen projects, thinking you could make a quick buck.
The GOT NFT is almost as bad.
For all the hype and success it had with the movie, they really did a piss-poor job with the NFTs.
First off, the graphics were so terribly designed.
The characters had REALLY LONG FINGERS.
It didn’t even grip the spear he was holding.
The supposed 3D avatars barely looked 3D.
What?
Why?
I mean, how even?
How did head honchos allow this to be released?
Then there were the delays, lack of interest and bad communication from the development team.
It was a classic case of a billion-dollar franchise who did a half-hearted effort into web3.
Like so many other companies, they missed a golden opportunity to strike.
They got complacent, were lazy with the effort and didn’t bother to inject an ounce of creativity into the NFT project.
I mean, they even cut and paste Shutterstock images entirely for their resource cards in the pack!
That is just meme-worthy and we should call them out.
So far, Nike and Adidas were the only ones so far who did a great job with their web3 entry.
So was it just a badly executed cash-grab grift?
It is hardly worth the trouble for just $750K right?
Who knows.
Let this serve as a lesson for any other big companies thinking of jumping into web3.
Please put in some thoughtfulness and effort.
-
Should big companies get into NFT?
-
#startups #business #startupx #growth #success #socialmedia #culture #entrepreneurship #strategy #eth #btc #crypto #sbf #scam #kevin #gameofthrones #got #cardgame #nftlaunch #hbo #saladfingers
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