[HN Gopher] Pepsi's Soviet Navy (2021)
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Pepsi's Soviet Navy (2021)
Author : nateb2022
Score : 56 points
Date : 2024-10-11 18:15 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (foreignpolicy.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (foreignpolicy.com)
| hacsky wrote:
| _Donald Kendall started as a worker in a Pepsi-Cola bottling
| plant, but he swiftly climbed the corporate ladder, becoming head
| of the company's international division by 1957 when he was only
| in his mid-30s._
|
| I wonder if that career path is still possible today?
| tossandthrow wrote:
| I think there are areas today, where you can rapidly grow and
| in 60 years we will look back and think to ourselves how that
| was possible.
| flak48 wrote:
| A similar but more recent career trajectory: Elliot Hill, the
| incoming Nike CEO started at Nike as a store sales intern and
| was already head of Nike EMEA retail by around age 34 (in the
| year 2000)
| SoftTalker wrote:
| Yes it's possible. You need really good social and political
| skills, and a somewhat ruthless approach. Sociopathic
| tendencies, in other words.
| mingus88 wrote:
| Of course, that career path is absolutely viable for any
| sufficiently motivated and driven child of a CEO
| swatcoder wrote:
| Be a standout employee in a rapidly growing and transforming
| company, stepping into increasingly significant roles as
| opportunies expand?
|
| Of course. Countless people on this very forum have taken that
| road and countless so are still doing so today.
|
| But not everyone is able to make their mark as a standout
| employee, not everyone commits to one organization long enough
| to see it through (passing up on other opportities), and and
| not every organization grows or even survives well enough to
| open those doors to them.
|
| It's common, but neither universal nor guaranteed -- and always
| has been. While the culture of loyalty (in both directions) has
| certainly changed over time and likely represents changes in
| _how_ common, it 's a misperception to not notice it still
| happening every day.
| crop_rotation wrote:
| That career path is still possible today, but it never was
| commonplace as the example makes one think.
| underlogic wrote:
| art is clearly generated but model gets no credit. I think that's
| pretty outrageous
| MrGreenTea wrote:
| What art are you referring to? I only see photographs that are
| credited (on mobile)
|
| Do you mean the navy cap with the Pepsi logo? It's credited as
| an illustration. In 2021 the Text-to-image models also weren't
| that good yet, or did I miss something?
| giantrobot wrote:
| https://archive.is/dwUWk
| throw2389238909 wrote:
| > 7 submarines would have tied with India for possessing the
| seventh-largest fleet of attack submarines.
|
| > Yet in any real sense the story is false. What PepsiCo acquired
| were small, old, obsolete, unseaworthy vessels.
|
| Or perhaps compare it to junk Ukrainian army got! Old tanks,
| fighter jets salvaged from junkyard (Kazakshan) or just before
| decommission...
|
| Weapons that would give it a fighting chance (F35 and nuclear
| warheads) were never even mentioned!
| tgaj wrote:
| How would giving Ukraine nuclear warheads solve anything?
| Y_Y wrote:
| It could solve life on earth
| throw__away7391 wrote:
| MAD has a pretty good track record so far.
| kadoban wrote:
| Has a nuclear power ever been on the receiving end of a war?
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