Rita McGrath
speaker
126 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jun
Rita McGrath’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Another draw to cooking at home?
The scratch cooking trend is a bright spot for Campbell's.
Two things that brought the company's sales down.
People bought fewer salty snacks last quarter and less of what the company calls eating soups.
You know, the ones that don't go in casseroles.
How anyone could turn a profit on AOL actually is pretty simple to Rita McGrath at Columbia Business School because she's got an AOL email herself.
But the contents of their spam boxes is treasure because there is a lot of information in there that bending spoons can sell.
That info wasn't valuable enough for AOL alone, or for many of the other companies that Bending Spoons acquires.
So the name of the game is cuts and consolidation.
Analyst Roger Entner is founder of Recon Analytics, and he says a team running several brands at once leads to fatter profit margins.
And a lot of companies that Bending Spoons buys up have sticky, loyal subscriber bases.
Think Columbia's Rita McGrath and her AOL account.
If Bending Spoons wants to keep buying companies like that, it needs capital.
That is where the IPO comes in.
Forrest Conner is an analyst at Gartner.
Plus, amid the AI boom, selling data is profitable.
The company's revenue last quarter is more than double what it posted a year earlier.
I'm Kaylee Wells for Marketplace.
It's a pleasure to be here.
Sure. So Gillette is one of the most successful consumer product companies in the world. They were founded in 1901 and they were one of the original safety razor manufacturers. So King C. Gillette, the actual man, founded this company. And before that, if you wanted to get a close shave, you pretty much had to go to a barbershop. So it was a huge breakthrough in mass market consumer products.
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