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🗓️ 14 December 2022
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0:00.0 | That's right. |
0:01.0 | Next slide, please. |
0:02.5 | So instead of revamping Mercury, what Ford does is they choose to do something different. |
0:07.4 | They choose to do a brand new division in the mid-range. |
0:12.2 | And the first problem you have is what do you call it, right? |
0:17.7 | So they don't know yet. |
0:20.2 | Let's name it after the least bad guy in the organization. |
0:24.4 | You're pretty well. |
0:25.4 | Well, a good Ford is the dead one, Ross. |
0:28.0 | They can't think of a good name for Ford. |
0:32.5 | They truly cannot. |
0:33.5 | They hire this Don Draperass ad agency called Foot, Cone, and Belding, that's not real. |
0:40.8 | And Foot, Cone, and Belding, try, oh my god, Cone, and Belding, Don Draper is out of |
0:51.2 | the office at that moment. |
0:52.3 | And so they bring them back a list of 6,000 potential names for this division to which Ford |
1:00.2 | go. |
1:01.2 | We only wanted one. |
1:02.2 | At one point, the ad agency hire guys to stand outside movie theaters, trying to listen |
1:09.0 | for words people like saying. |
1:11.6 | That's how desperate they are for inspiration. |
1:15.0 | I mean, Coke did that with OK soda. |
1:20.5 | They were just like, oh, well, OK. |
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