Thierry Lillette

Technology & Product Management │ Anything wireless │ Enthusiastic & skeptical about #IoT #AI #smarthome #wearables #VR / #AR │ Views are my own

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Reims, France 🇫🇷

For nearly 1,000 years, Reims Cathedral was the traditional site for the coronation of French kings. This practice began with the crowning of Louis the Pious in 816 and continued until the coronation of Charles X in 1825.

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the openai board

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No one remembers your worst moments quite as much as you do.

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How the mighty fall...

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SoftBank's WeWork, once most valuable US startup, succumbs to bankruptcy https://t.co/fvgQHEQ52a

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So true …

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Once again I would like to remind everyone that the product manager at Zoom who decided that users should be forced to update before joining a meeting should be fired.

I am now 2 minutes late

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Pretty good advice: Overchoice and How to Avoid it https://t.co/nEOz6siSjC

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The most important #prodmgmt question: the seduction of “why” https://t.co/O5ou83qJ7M

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Microsoft’s revenue

1975: 2023:
$16,000 $16,000 per 2 seconds

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Costco is now offering a 157-piece Le Creuset set for $4,500 that arrives at your home on a PALLET

Probably every kitchen item you will ever need. Worth it?

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You've probably heard of Dollar Shave Club.

What you might not know?

Unilever bought them for $1 BILLION in 2016. ...And the acquisition's been deemed a failure.

Here's the lowdown:

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"In Cambridge you are never more than eight feet from a software engineer"
How the ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’ continues to drive innovation https://t.co/MXrgbeoYoK

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When the French invite you for dinner vs when the Germans invite you for dinner

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This might interest my Dutch friends: For Almost $500K, These Orange Aston Martins Can Be Your Whole Personality https://t.co/2b2RIaN6nw

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Report: Spotify is being used by criminal gangs to launder money in Sweden https://t.co/yhbngMJJWZ

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Bonus One: Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce stopped exhibiting at car shows.

Instead, they started exhibiting at private jet shows.

"If you've been looking at jets all afternoon, a £300K car is an impulse buy. It's like putting the sweets next to the counter." - Rory Sutherland

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Run a mile in 4min 36 sec.

Then do it 25x again, in a row.

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Once upon a time in tech

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Photographer Willian Justen de Vasconcellos captured this stunning aerial shot during a trip to Spain in 2018. In his words, "A boring place seeing from below could be entirely different from above."

📸 Willian Justen de Vasconcellos

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Do we really miss everyone one of them though ?
The Google Graveyard revisited: 9 scrapped Google ideas we still miss https://t.co/v5siycbRpy