New to Seattle Area (Advice)

Going OT on the patents and sku count… depends on if they are counting utility or design patents in that number, but with such a number of acquired brands, and a few with long histories, it seems about right… one of the things about legacy acquired brands are the long product tails. I was always arguing to cut in my last role, but there was always a sales guy who that sku represented x amount of revenue to and who had trouble switching them to the new stuff. In the end we succeeded in cutting the skew count a bit, but not as much as I’d have like to. I always dreamed of having a meeting like that chapter in Walter Isaacson’s book on Steve jobs where he comes into the room, draws a two by two, and reduced the sky count from over a hundred to 4… OT mode off :slight_smile: