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Felix Oberholzer-Chi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
257 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And they probably get some kind of a fee for relaying that information to someone who, A, actually knows which questions to ask, and B, who provides the actual service.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

So we have hundreds of layers in the economy now that are just totally useless.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And the lure, I think, is just, oh, my God, here's a business where we basically don't do anything.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

Yeah.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And we get to be rich if it happens to scale because we can charge referral fees.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And it creates the worst of customer experiences.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And frankly, when I just think if all of these people actually fixed windows, did something meaningful, added value to the economy, oh my God, it would be really amazing.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

But no, we're all in the referral business right now and it's just horrible.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

It's not that there are not problems to solve.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

So window installations can be done at various levels of quality.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And since it's not something that you do very often, knowing who will do a good job and who will not do a good job, that would be really valuable.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

But of course, at the same time, it's expensive.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

to do.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And it's not the easiest because how would you know whether a contractor is reliable, not reliable?

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And so my sense is it's part of thinking about the economy as sort of a lottery.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And if you hit it big, it'll be really amazing.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

But you know that the probabilities are not so great.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And so people are just lazy.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

Felix, what else you got that you like?

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

I had this one moment in March of 2022 that was magical.