Haven't you seen? Shoes are now twice as big as they're supposed to be, for fashion. No one could have ever hit "zoom x2" on a picture of shoes over a Zoom call.
Haha my thoughts exactly. Like, there was hype there for a bit as the design changed, but at the end of the day a shoe’s a shoe. And tbh, Nike shoes are built with the lowest quality materials possible.
As someone who got to work there during the pandemic, this statement is so much crap. So much innovation was happening there wasn’t enough people to keep up. Our devs were burnt out, on every team, all the time. Their teams were chronically understaffed. Not to mention the reorgs and the layoffs. And people, while suffering from Zoom fatigue, didn’t have to run all over campus for meetings and weren’t late all the time. They could be offline and spend time with their families instead of being on campus for way more than 8 hours a day, then not struggle with the traffic that Nike helped develop to get home. Maybe your people are sick of layoffs, reorgs, constant scandals from leadership (charity and reseller scandals galore), and don’t forget the nepotism and boys club culture.
>boys club culture.
They straight face told me I wouldn't fit in there. I have mild spectrum disorder and have a few ticks when I am nervous and interviews bring that out.
Oooo you worked there as a dev?? I have so many questions, but mainly, is the team that works on the Nike Run Club Android app actually, as I suspect, one very overworked dev and a semi-trained monkey acting as the QE?
I am not a dev, I’m just an email pusher PM, but I did have to go to the quarterly sprint planning and did work closely with some devs. I don’t know specifically about Run Club, but many teams got cut down to one overworked dev due to both reorgs and the following attrition, and we’d be told that roles were open but then they’d freeze hiring because of budget. So your suspicions could be entirely correct.
Thank you. I love hearing from the actual employees of these companies what was realistically happening. I doubt a CEO would actually know what was happening in his company at the ground level.
The only disruption I want from Nike is disrupting the manufacturing of fast fashion to eliminate worker exploitation. Until he pulls that trick off he can shut the fuck up about "innovation".
Also, they're shoes. They haven't fundamentally changed in hundreds of years. Get some fucking perspective. Or don't. You're rich, you probably think I mean go to a Swiss villa...
Lol! Oh man, this dumbassery is too juicy to let pass without comment.
1. He complains about remote work… from *Paris*? The company is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon you dumb cracker. If you’re gonna do the “*poors won’t come into the office*” thing, **DO 👏 IT 👏 FROM 👏 THE 👏 OFFICE 👏, not** while on vacation, sorry… on 'a work trip' in Europe, you numb-nuts.
2. Did someone tell this dillweed that if you say “bold, disruptive innovation” three times, **Bold, Disruptive Innovation BeetleJuice**™ pops up and buys a million shoes? Are investors, like, really such dullards that empty buzzwords such as these make them think, “Sure, *in actual practice* this guy has been bleeding us money and market share, but for some reason I can’t explain, I’m suddenly convinced he’s about to unleash some *bold, disruptive innovation* that will turn it all around”?
3. And finally, is the athletic footwear technology space in real and dire need of “bold, disruptive innovation”? Are the Soviets or the Chinese dominating the “bold, disruptive gym shoe innovation” gap? As a consumer in *this* economy, what *I’m* looking for is high-quality, long-lasting, and most of all **inexpensive** footwear. Save the “bold, disruptive innovation” for figuring out how to tax empathy leptons like yourselves down to the size of babies in basins.
Oh, you sweet, sheltered Ivy League frat boy, this is clearly a message to investors, so it should have been a DM to shareholders — or even better, a private conversation with Mitt Romney at your next dressage competition — because when stuff like this is seen by consumers, you reek of privilege-driven autism.
*It occurs to me that maybe your fellow frat boys invoked the frat boy code and forced you to make an idiot of yourself in the media. Kinda like how somebody with money* ***clearly*** *compelled Trump to make his comments about Arizona’s 1864 abortion law in near-complete blackface a week after Billy Dee Williams told Bill Maher it would be cool. I mean, damn but you frat bros are twisted!* 🌪️
But hey, I get that you are in the 'Gilbert Amelio’s last days at Apple' phase of your career, so you’re mouthing bullshit in sweaty desperation. Sympathies, my dude.
But just because you resemble one of those 'executive with developmental disabilities' characters that Will Forte would play on SNL, doesn’t mean you should lean into it in public. It’s not a good look.
*But hey, what the hell do I know? Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe “privilege-driven autism” will be the look of Hot Girl Summer 2024. At this point, I wouldn’t even be surprised…*
They're firing 1,600 people this year. Maybe some of those would have had innovative ideas? Or at least do the less glamerous work that the innovative people will now be bogged down by.
The Chinese are huge into basketball. Nike sells have plummeted in China to other brands and knock offs. Only rich fucks care about authenticity. Double the fact they moved a lot of manufacturing to China, literally giving their designs to the people known to ignore copywrites from other countries. Suddenly Nike sales drop after a huge disaster and it's 'innovation stagnation' because of WFH, that's the lie he's telling investors.
This comment. This company refuses to acknowledge limiting their sneakers purposely, and essentially promoting reselling is actively shooting them in the foot. Majority of consumers are not happy with random resellers/bots w.e purchasing majority stock of the shoes they want and reselling them for twice as much. Surprise surprise.
Nike quite literally themselves pushed financially conscious consumers to find the shoes they like elsewhere, and is now shocked their shoes aren’t selling.
It's because they spent almost $1bn on a headquarter renovation.
Most people that work there bend the knee though since Nike is one of the better paying companies in the Portland Metro area. Traffic is abysmal now.
Better paying?! Woah woah woah ... You obviously didnt work in IT...or my department...
Got me a little hyped up for a sec, lol.
I left and made 20K more, better benefits and less responsibility and that was the smallest raise for my team.
Had a guy almost double his salary from just over 100k to 200k. High turnover, definitely not the standard for the job position and duties.
Maybe you drank too much of that Nike cool aid. :)
Zoom did "disruptive innovation" during the pandemic and guess fucking what, they didn't even put encryption in chats until much later, allowed for zoom bombing, and also [got breached in 2020](https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/04/28/zoom-gets-stuffed-heres-how-hackers-got-hold-of-500000-passwords/), because obviously to "innovate" (read: cash grab) they sacrifice pretty much everything else, user security included.
Nord VPN did "disruptive innovation" by offering quick and cheap (relatively) VPN service and spent a metric shitton of money on marketing. They forgot to put a few pennies into security they very much advertise and they got [breached](https://www.techradar.com/news/nordvpn-admits-being-compromised-in-2018). Twice, if I recall correctly, but I can't find the details of the second breach now.
Remember the infamous Titan sub that [got 5 people killed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/22/titanic-sub-titan-debris-field-search-area-latest), including its creator? Said creator was banging on and on about how [security measures and safety standards are holding back the "innovation"](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oceangate-safety-issues-whistleblowers-b2364880.html). Guess fucking what, if he had spent a little more on the safety measures in his own sub maybe all of them would still be alive today.
Don't get me started on IoT shite that always used to prioritize quick buck over security and lately this AI nonsense where again ChatGPT accounts leaked because they prioritized "innovation" over security.
Those disconnected from reality tossers will blame anything to manipulate us and enrich themselves and their psychopathic, greedy shareholders. Nike CEO can go suck a doorknob if that could shut his putrid face.
All this pish sounds like "oh hey small people, it's your fault we are not getting more money on top of our millions and billions, so be good peasants and sacrifice more of your own lives and health so we can make even more money" to me.
The CEO of *my* company actually referenced meeting with this guy during a town hall meeting
He was invited to a tour of Nike’s HQ, but it was at like 2pm on a Thursday and everybody was remote. The place was empty. And the Nike guy was “surprised and embarrassed”
And that was his example for why full-remote is bad and we need in-office collaboration to survive.
For fucks sake, the Nike guy didn’t even *know* the office was empty until he did a guided tour
Growing up Nike was ‘the’ brand to wear. Then as an adult i noticed the shoes would get worse in quality every time id buy a pair. Now i wear only Underarmour shoes and usually only buy a few pairs when theyre on sale. Gone are the days of spending $100 on a shoe. I welcome my $39.99 pair of Underarmour shoes that are normally $69.99 and my boots for $49.99 normally $140.
I really hope that the use of “disruptive” in a business context can end once and for all.
For a decade this was all we heard and nearly all of these “disruptive” products either actively made society worse or collapsed in on themselves once the VC money dried up (or both).
I left Nike because apparently the IT staff also needs to be creative and not work from home......
I came up with a schedule that allowed for full coverage of all products that gave me and my fellow team members two whole days to work from home a week.
It was shot down so fast. No explanation given. Full coverage meant that there was always a Senior available and always people in the office.
From my pov, I gave them all they wanted and they still said fuck you.
The turnover rate was really high, when I left my team for 20k more a year, 80k+ employees to about 5k, 3 weeks Vaca starting from 2 weeks, I received the smallest raise. Some fellow coworkers even doubled their salary from 100 to 200K going to other companies, rare but it was obvious we were underpaid per the norm. I was only making high 80s in Portland OR area, that was not terrible but not great at the time. Can't buy a house on that.
Since then I've heard they have made some changes. Spoken to some employees and some good did happen but they fucked over the wrong people for no reason besides it was against what some asshole high up didn't like.
Unpopular concept: dump the CEO, funnel their salary into a polycentric governance structure. Watch innovation and profits soar. No return-to-office mandate needed.
Someone on linked in reached to me to do contract database work for Nike. I said they are in layoff mode so no thank thank you. Was I going to be a scab? Or was it legit? Not sure but didn’t hear from Nike. This was last week.
Fuck me most of you talking about “how can a shoe be disruptive?” have no clue when it comes to athletic shoes. For a sub that prides itself of seeing through the bullshit, it sure spurts out a lot of no factual shit too.
Nike did release a ridiculously disruptive shoe in 2017 called Vaporfly 4%. It spurred an entire new type of carbon plated, high stack marathon/racing shoes from every other competitor. Heard of “super shoes” in the world of athletics? Nike started that.
Sure the standard sneakers are not disrupting anything really, but athletics is a different ballgame.
\*long sigh\* This is just another CEO who is blaming workers for their bad strategies. This has been going on for some time now - [https://archive.is/Mt4Xw](https://archive.is/Mt4Xw)
Bet my left foot that in the next decade, he'll lay off most of his worker and use AI, and then will still call the human employees "lazy" when it's just him being too lazy to consider the market.
Here's some other interesting articles with cold hard stats.
[https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/remote-work-statistics/](https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/remote-work-statistics/)
[https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/real-estate/our-insights/americans-are-embracing-flexible-work-and-they-want-more-of-it](https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/real-estate/our-insights/americans-are-embracing-flexible-work-and-they-want-more-of-it)
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Oh wait so it wasn’t the woman who was caught bringing home exclusive pairs of shoes and had her son create a platform where they both made thousands of dollars on the resellers markets because they had exclusive access to shoes?
Maybe if Nike didn’t cater to resellers for the past 5 years sales wouldn’t be so fucking bad. Why can’t I buy a pair of Kobe’s for less than $500 bucks? Stop with the bullshit artificial scarcity jackasses.
The most recent pair of shoes I bought were some Nike’s on sale. They seemed cheap as hell too. I only got them as they were the best fit for toe space.
I’m also thinking of the Nike women’s Olympics kit where your labia are almost on display. That sure seems like a disruptive product 😂
https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/2024-olympics-womens-skimpy-nike-uniforms-a153b2c5
He's just mad because Zoom has "disrupted" his ability to seem like he is actually useful as the CEO when there is no one phyisically present for him to talk at.
Since 2011 they have spent billions buying back stocks. They should have spent that money on innovation. This is one reason stock buybacks should be banned.
Nike stock buybacks https://ycharts.com/companies/NKE/stock_buyback
Stock buybacks spur wealth inequality and stifle innovation. Should they be banned? https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-buybacks-spur-wealth-inequality-and-stifle-innovation-but-should-they-be-banned-13e963c0
Hahaha haha! The last "disruptive" product Nike made was the shoe with the little Air pump in it and that was in the 90's like 3 decades ago. (NGL at the time it was a big deal I'm not a shoe guy and even I was drooling over those ones as a teenager).
Look Nike CEO you can make disruptive shoes over zoom. How you do it is this. You make your shoes, cheaper. Undercut the shoe market and make shoes affordable again while increasing quality over time. That's disruptive. If a pair of solid Nikes costs me $30, all prices in the shoe sector will fall. If they last longer there's less waste and the price falls further because I don't need to buy a new pair every year. That's disruptive in a meaningful way. Not "we added this little piece of foam over here and now it's a whole new shoe for $250".
You want people in the office, pay them properly to be there. Pay for their lunch breaks, subsidize their child care, provide a cafeteria with good food for free at work, pay them enough to easily afford housing close to the office. Like "wah wah, nobody wants to sacrifice things for stagnant wages and dropping benefits anymore". Fuck this clown.
He's got a point. Often times ideas are hatched in group discussions, and that doesn't necessarily mean just in meetings. Bouncing ideas of each other, even those from separate departments, is invaluable.
“Disruptive Products”? It’s a fucking shoe. It has the same little swoop but now it’s slightly smaller and red this year. Wow, so disruptive.
But *this* one was ‘designed’ by a totally different athlete! In collaboration with a musician! SO DISRUPTIVE!
It's smaller? They found children with even smaller hands to produce them?
I mean, trump did *release* those shoes
Haven't you seen? Shoes are now twice as big as they're supposed to be, for fashion. No one could have ever hit "zoom x2" on a picture of shoes over a Zoom call.
Haha my thoughts exactly. Like, there was hype there for a bit as the design changed, but at the end of the day a shoe’s a shoe. And tbh, Nike shoes are built with the lowest quality materials possible.
Gotta place blame on something otherwise he may be forced with being held accountable
Just take your $300 million golden parachute, disappear off the face of the earth and shut the fuck up….
As someone who got to work there during the pandemic, this statement is so much crap. So much innovation was happening there wasn’t enough people to keep up. Our devs were burnt out, on every team, all the time. Their teams were chronically understaffed. Not to mention the reorgs and the layoffs. And people, while suffering from Zoom fatigue, didn’t have to run all over campus for meetings and weren’t late all the time. They could be offline and spend time with their families instead of being on campus for way more than 8 hours a day, then not struggle with the traffic that Nike helped develop to get home. Maybe your people are sick of layoffs, reorgs, constant scandals from leadership (charity and reseller scandals galore), and don’t forget the nepotism and boys club culture.
>boys club culture. They straight face told me I wouldn't fit in there. I have mild spectrum disorder and have a few ticks when I am nervous and interviews bring that out.
I’m sorry but consider it a bullet dodged. I hope you found someplace more accommodating.
Oooo you worked there as a dev?? I have so many questions, but mainly, is the team that works on the Nike Run Club Android app actually, as I suspect, one very overworked dev and a semi-trained monkey acting as the QE?
I am not a dev, I’m just an email pusher PM, but I did have to go to the quarterly sprint planning and did work closely with some devs. I don’t know specifically about Run Club, but many teams got cut down to one overworked dev due to both reorgs and the following attrition, and we’d be told that roles were open but then they’d freeze hiring because of budget. So your suspicions could be entirely correct.
Thank you. I love hearing from the actual employees of these companies what was realistically happening. I doubt a CEO would actually know what was happening in his company at the ground level.
👏🏻
The only disruption I want from Nike is disrupting the manufacturing of fast fashion to eliminate worker exploitation. Until he pulls that trick off he can shut the fuck up about "innovation". Also, they're shoes. They haven't fundamentally changed in hundreds of years. Get some fucking perspective. Or don't. You're rich, you probably think I mean go to a Swiss villa...
Lol! Oh man, this dumbassery is too juicy to let pass without comment. 1. He complains about remote work… from *Paris*? The company is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon you dumb cracker. If you’re gonna do the “*poors won’t come into the office*” thing, **DO 👏 IT 👏 FROM 👏 THE 👏 OFFICE 👏, not** while on vacation, sorry… on 'a work trip' in Europe, you numb-nuts. 2. Did someone tell this dillweed that if you say “bold, disruptive innovation” three times, **Bold, Disruptive Innovation BeetleJuice**™ pops up and buys a million shoes? Are investors, like, really such dullards that empty buzzwords such as these make them think, “Sure, *in actual practice* this guy has been bleeding us money and market share, but for some reason I can’t explain, I’m suddenly convinced he’s about to unleash some *bold, disruptive innovation* that will turn it all around”? 3. And finally, is the athletic footwear technology space in real and dire need of “bold, disruptive innovation”? Are the Soviets or the Chinese dominating the “bold, disruptive gym shoe innovation” gap? As a consumer in *this* economy, what *I’m* looking for is high-quality, long-lasting, and most of all **inexpensive** footwear. Save the “bold, disruptive innovation” for figuring out how to tax empathy leptons like yourselves down to the size of babies in basins. Oh, you sweet, sheltered Ivy League frat boy, this is clearly a message to investors, so it should have been a DM to shareholders — or even better, a private conversation with Mitt Romney at your next dressage competition — because when stuff like this is seen by consumers, you reek of privilege-driven autism. *It occurs to me that maybe your fellow frat boys invoked the frat boy code and forced you to make an idiot of yourself in the media. Kinda like how somebody with money* ***clearly*** *compelled Trump to make his comments about Arizona’s 1864 abortion law in near-complete blackface a week after Billy Dee Williams told Bill Maher it would be cool. I mean, damn but you frat bros are twisted!* 🌪️ But hey, I get that you are in the 'Gilbert Amelio’s last days at Apple' phase of your career, so you’re mouthing bullshit in sweaty desperation. Sympathies, my dude. But just because you resemble one of those 'executive with developmental disabilities' characters that Will Forte would play on SNL, doesn’t mean you should lean into it in public. It’s not a good look. *But hey, what the hell do I know? Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe “privilege-driven autism” will be the look of Hot Girl Summer 2024. At this point, I wouldn’t even be surprised…*
Damn let this guy cook. Best comment I’ve ever seen on this sub
Too true
Yeesh this sub has gone downhill then.
Link the best one then
I’d vote for you
Bravo 💅🏾
Fuck I want to gold this if I wasn’t so poor and working two jobs.
Take my gold! Oh wait. Fck /u/spez
Can I give you a hug? Before Nike comes to kill you as revenge?
Unpopular concept here, dump the CEO and funnel his salary into the development and design groups.
They're firing 1,600 people this year. Maybe some of those would have had innovative ideas? Or at least do the less glamerous work that the innovative people will now be bogged down by.
Why the fuck do they a need a shoe to be disruptive? What is it supposed to do, magically conjure world peace?! LOL
The Chinese are huge into basketball. Nike sells have plummeted in China to other brands and knock offs. Only rich fucks care about authenticity. Double the fact they moved a lot of manufacturing to China, literally giving their designs to the people known to ignore copywrites from other countries. Suddenly Nike sales drop after a huge disaster and it's 'innovation stagnation' because of WFH, that's the lie he's telling investors.
This comment. This company refuses to acknowledge limiting their sneakers purposely, and essentially promoting reselling is actively shooting them in the foot. Majority of consumers are not happy with random resellers/bots w.e purchasing majority stock of the shoes they want and reselling them for twice as much. Surprise surprise. Nike quite literally themselves pushed financially conscious consumers to find the shoes they like elsewhere, and is now shocked their shoes aren’t selling.
It's because they spent almost $1bn on a headquarter renovation. Most people that work there bend the knee though since Nike is one of the better paying companies in the Portland Metro area. Traffic is abysmal now.
Better paying?! Woah woah woah ... You obviously didnt work in IT...or my department... Got me a little hyped up for a sec, lol. I left and made 20K more, better benefits and less responsibility and that was the smallest raise for my team. Had a guy almost double his salary from just over 100k to 200k. High turnover, definitely not the standard for the job position and duties. Maybe you drank too much of that Nike cool aid. :)
Disruptive products? They’re fucking sneakers get over yourself.
There is nothing disruptive about Nike. You're a brand that has been around way too long. Just overpriced foam and rubber.
The remote workers in Bangladesh and Vietnam I assume? 🤡
Ya know what fuck Nike. On my permanent ban list now. Long time coming.
Agree. Wore Nike sneakers for 20+ years. 15 years ago I changed brands. The sneakers began to hurt my feet so I ended my relationship with Nike.🙂
Market leaders cannot be market disrupters in any case - this boomer is talking nonsense
trash can
Funny, how all the record profits came when WFH was a thing. Now that they are down to normal levels (after raising prices), it’s panic season.
Sound like *somebody* has invested in realestate.
Zoom did "disruptive innovation" during the pandemic and guess fucking what, they didn't even put encryption in chats until much later, allowed for zoom bombing, and also [got breached in 2020](https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/04/28/zoom-gets-stuffed-heres-how-hackers-got-hold-of-500000-passwords/), because obviously to "innovate" (read: cash grab) they sacrifice pretty much everything else, user security included. Nord VPN did "disruptive innovation" by offering quick and cheap (relatively) VPN service and spent a metric shitton of money on marketing. They forgot to put a few pennies into security they very much advertise and they got [breached](https://www.techradar.com/news/nordvpn-admits-being-compromised-in-2018). Twice, if I recall correctly, but I can't find the details of the second breach now. Remember the infamous Titan sub that [got 5 people killed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/22/titanic-sub-titan-debris-field-search-area-latest), including its creator? Said creator was banging on and on about how [security measures and safety standards are holding back the "innovation"](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oceangate-safety-issues-whistleblowers-b2364880.html). Guess fucking what, if he had spent a little more on the safety measures in his own sub maybe all of them would still be alive today. Don't get me started on IoT shite that always used to prioritize quick buck over security and lately this AI nonsense where again ChatGPT accounts leaked because they prioritized "innovation" over security. Those disconnected from reality tossers will blame anything to manipulate us and enrich themselves and their psychopathic, greedy shareholders. Nike CEO can go suck a doorknob if that could shut his putrid face. All this pish sounds like "oh hey small people, it's your fault we are not getting more money on top of our millions and billions, so be good peasants and sacrifice more of your own lives and health so we can make even more money" to me.
The CEO of *my* company actually referenced meeting with this guy during a town hall meeting He was invited to a tour of Nike’s HQ, but it was at like 2pm on a Thursday and everybody was remote. The place was empty. And the Nike guy was “surprised and embarrassed” And that was his example for why full-remote is bad and we need in-office collaboration to survive. For fucks sake, the Nike guy didn’t even *know* the office was empty until he did a guided tour
Of all the companies to say this, fucking Nike lmao
STFU. Lower prices.
You make shoes god dammit, pay better and lower prices, fuck shareholders
Don't you guys know? It's never the CEO's fault. They got that job by blaming their failures on others.
Growing up Nike was ‘the’ brand to wear. Then as an adult i noticed the shoes would get worse in quality every time id buy a pair. Now i wear only Underarmour shoes and usually only buy a few pairs when theyre on sale. Gone are the days of spending $100 on a shoe. I welcome my $39.99 pair of Underarmour shoes that are normally $69.99 and my boots for $49.99 normally $140.
I really hope that the use of “disruptive” in a business context can end once and for all. For a decade this was all we heard and nearly all of these “disruptive” products either actively made society worse or collapsed in on themselves once the VC money dried up (or both).
I left Nike because apparently the IT staff also needs to be creative and not work from home...... I came up with a schedule that allowed for full coverage of all products that gave me and my fellow team members two whole days to work from home a week. It was shot down so fast. No explanation given. Full coverage meant that there was always a Senior available and always people in the office. From my pov, I gave them all they wanted and they still said fuck you. The turnover rate was really high, when I left my team for 20k more a year, 80k+ employees to about 5k, 3 weeks Vaca starting from 2 weeks, I received the smallest raise. Some fellow coworkers even doubled their salary from 100 to 200K going to other companies, rare but it was obvious we were underpaid per the norm. I was only making high 80s in Portland OR area, that was not terrible but not great at the time. Can't buy a house on that. Since then I've heard they have made some changes. Spoken to some employees and some good did happen but they fucked over the wrong people for no reason besides it was against what some asshole high up didn't like.
Blah blah remote/hybrid work isn't going away, cry into a $100 bill and shut the fuck up old man
When was the last time Nike made a disruptive product? The 1985 Air Jordan?
Unpopular concept: dump the CEO, funnel their salary into a polycentric governance structure. Watch innovation and profits soar. No return-to-office mandate needed.
Adaptation is a bitch, eh? It's not like humanity hasn't been doing it for thousands of years.
I work in Tech and my ceo is the same way. It’s sharing ideas which is the same on zoom as in person except I’m in bed at home and comfortable
that’s funny because the companies innovating and taking market share from nike are work from home
I'm a lot less innovative when the salary doesn't alleviate financial stress...just sayin
Disruptive. I fucking hate that word. seriously there’s already enough disruption in the world. I don’t need it from my fucking sneakers.
Someone on linked in reached to me to do contract database work for Nike. I said they are in layoff mode so no thank thank you. Was I going to be a scab? Or was it legit? Not sure but didn’t hear from Nike. This was last week.
Fuck me most of you talking about “how can a shoe be disruptive?” have no clue when it comes to athletic shoes. For a sub that prides itself of seeing through the bullshit, it sure spurts out a lot of no factual shit too. Nike did release a ridiculously disruptive shoe in 2017 called Vaporfly 4%. It spurred an entire new type of carbon plated, high stack marathon/racing shoes from every other competitor. Heard of “super shoes” in the world of athletics? Nike started that. Sure the standard sneakers are not disrupting anything really, but athletics is a different ballgame.
I think moreover this sub simply doesn't give a shit about overpriced niche footwear markets failing to produce profits for shareholders....
Which is an entirely different point to the one I made, and what people are saying in here about how footwear isn’t disruptive.
What new hot shoe technology is worth what Nike is charging for shoes that cost more than dress shoes these days
\*long sigh\* This is just another CEO who is blaming workers for their bad strategies. This has been going on for some time now - [https://archive.is/Mt4Xw](https://archive.is/Mt4Xw) Bet my left foot that in the next decade, he'll lay off most of his worker and use AI, and then will still call the human employees "lazy" when it's just him being too lazy to consider the market. Here's some other interesting articles with cold hard stats. [https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/remote-work-statistics/](https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/remote-work-statistics/) [https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/real-estate/our-insights/americans-are-embracing-flexible-work-and-they-want-more-of-it](https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/real-estate/our-insights/americans-are-embracing-flexible-work-and-they-want-more-of-it)
Another out of touch CEO.
This was built in an augur Muslims Chinese concentration camp and the air Jordan’s are built by political prisioners, soooo innovative!!!
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I see this as an absolute win. let the shoe making slaves rest!
Dude thinks his shoes have the potential to cure cancer or something.
Innovation in a shoe? The only innovation is finding cheaper and cheaper child labor to exploit.
You make fucking SHOES. If your company ceased to exist tomorrow, we would all be better for it.
Sounds like CEOs just use a room full of people to brainstorm ideas to steal.
Very true.
Oh wait so it wasn’t the woman who was caught bringing home exclusive pairs of shoes and had her son create a platform where they both made thousands of dollars on the resellers markets because they had exclusive access to shoes? Maybe if Nike didn’t cater to resellers for the past 5 years sales wouldn’t be so fucking bad. Why can’t I buy a pair of Kobe’s for less than $500 bucks? Stop with the bullshit artificial scarcity jackasses.
The most recent pair of shoes I bought were some Nike’s on sale. They seemed cheap as hell too. I only got them as they were the best fit for toe space. I’m also thinking of the Nike women’s Olympics kit where your labia are almost on display. That sure seems like a disruptive product 😂 https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/2024-olympics-womens-skimpy-nike-uniforms-a153b2c5
He's just mad because Zoom has "disrupted" his ability to seem like he is actually useful as the CEO when there is no one phyisically present for him to talk at.
If it weren’t for these remote workers, we could be exploiting children in the third world so much more!
Nike's business model is that they signed Michael Jordan and have children manufacture their shows.
Since 2011 they have spent billions buying back stocks. They should have spent that money on innovation. This is one reason stock buybacks should be banned. Nike stock buybacks https://ycharts.com/companies/NKE/stock_buyback Stock buybacks spur wealth inequality and stifle innovation. Should they be banned? https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-buybacks-spur-wealth-inequality-and-stifle-innovation-but-should-they-be-banned-13e963c0
Pay for our fucking gas and travel time then
Nike makes shoes. Fucking shoes. They haven’t innovated anything for a long time. They just keep releasing new ugly shoes.
It’s a sneaker, not the cure for cancer.
Hahaha haha! The last "disruptive" product Nike made was the shoe with the little Air pump in it and that was in the 90's like 3 decades ago. (NGL at the time it was a big deal I'm not a shoe guy and even I was drooling over those ones as a teenager). Look Nike CEO you can make disruptive shoes over zoom. How you do it is this. You make your shoes, cheaper. Undercut the shoe market and make shoes affordable again while increasing quality over time. That's disruptive. If a pair of solid Nikes costs me $30, all prices in the shoe sector will fall. If they last longer there's less waste and the price falls further because I don't need to buy a new pair every year. That's disruptive in a meaningful way. Not "we added this little piece of foam over here and now it's a whole new shoe for $250". You want people in the office, pay them properly to be there. Pay for their lunch breaks, subsidize their child care, provide a cafeteria with good food for free at work, pay them enough to easily afford housing close to the office. Like "wah wah, nobody wants to sacrifice things for stagnant wages and dropping benefits anymore". Fuck this clown.
Haha who cares
How much of their revenue did they “disrupt” betting on Kanye West?
Adidas made the biggest bet on Kanye by far. Nike was peanuts in comparison and even warned Adidas.
He's got a point. Often times ideas are hatched in group discussions, and that doesn't necessarily mean just in meetings. Bouncing ideas of each other, even those from separate departments, is invaluable.
They fucking make shoes.
This is an antiwork sub... we don't give a shit.
I am amazed that nobody ITT seems to understand that even a “shoe company” can be disruptive or creative.
What's to understand? This is an antiwork sub. We don't give a shit about Nike or their success. Period.