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What lulu’s crossover to menswear means for its acquisition of Mirror When lululemon acquired Mirror this past summer, the joke was that now lululemon…

Dec 28, 2020

Among the fun byproducts of writing The Flywheel is that people now send me flywheels. When someone sees a flywheel, has a question about a flywheel, or…

Dec 28, 2020

Thanks for your support! I really appreciate you taking the time to help me achieve my 2021 goals for The Flywheel. I wrote more about the journey and…

Dec 25, 2020

Why the teachers of disruption are squarely in its crosshairs. It is an open secret that business school is not really school. Students may spend a…

Nov 17, 2020

Why Zillow was willing to risk a perfectly fine flywheel for a much more complex and risky one. Let’s play fantasy CEO. The year is 2018, and you are…

Nov 17, 2020

[Full disclosure: I own a modest amount of SFIX shares.] In previous editions of The Flywheel, I’ve told the story of companies—Peloton, Zoom…

Nov 17, 2020

Making HTTP requests are side effects! So we use useEffect() Async/Await? As we saw before, the only thing you can return in useEffect()s is the cleanup…

Oct 26, 2020

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