What can product people learn from Starbucks’ recent struggles, and how are these lessons linked to a venerable British book retailer, an upstart French running brand, and a barmy Japanese watchmaker?

INTRO & FOLLOW-UPS – 02:47
Starbucks closing stores
SPVs, Credit, and AI Datacenters
This is How the AI Bubble Will Pop
Neue Klasse – 60 Years of the BMW 1500
World Premiere of the new BMW iX3
BMW Hofmeister Knick—Behind the Lines

STARBUCKS’ STRUGGLES – 14:08
No Logo at 20
Globalization and Its Discontents
The Walmart Effect
100 Cups of Coffee in a City on Fire

ANTI-HOMOGENEITY FTW – 21:08
Why high street coffee chains may have had their day
Why Are Independent Coffee Shops Succeeding?
Starbucks' Digital Dilemma

LESSONS FOR PRODUCT PEOPLE – 36:00
Seeing Like a State
Metis matters
Lessons learnt from Waterstones’ turnaround
Personality Disorders and Culture
SATISFY
How Satisfy Got the Cool Kids Into Running
Ernest’s G-SHOCK Frogman
Ibe Kikuo and the Development of the G-Shock
G-SHOCK GA-V01

RECOMMENDATIONS – 57:19
Alien: Earth
Alien: Earth soundtrack
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe

CLOSING – 01:11:08

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CREDITS
Theme: Vendla / Today Is a Good Day / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com
Drum hit: PREL / Musical Element 85 / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com