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Luca di Montezemolo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1553 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Ferrari

Well, it's right there in the data.

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Ferrari

There's a phrase they use called racing thrills and it's engineered over decades to provide a very specific racing thrill when you drive it.

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Ferrari

Which is not something that you can throw another badge on.

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Ferrari

So I think if you were asking management, they would insist this is a fruitless discussion because there is no way to rebadge something and call it a Ferrari.

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Ferrari

That's not it's intellectually impossible.

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Ferrari

But in reality, when they raise prices, people are willing to pay those higher prices because there is a shared myth that we all have a belief in what the brand represents and means to us and the emotions that it gives us by owning and driving it that are quantifiable and worth something.

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Ferrari

Watches don't provide racing emotions.

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Ferrari

So what matters, because all the performance is effectively identical at the high end, what matters is who...

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Ferrari

who you are saying that you are to the world when you look down at your wrist and when someone else sees your wrist.

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Ferrari

And there's this like interesting, perfect comparison here.

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Ferrari

I mean, they make an absolute crap ton of them.

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Ferrari

Rolex is a million a year.