So tired of job listings looking for “rock stars.” Rock stars show up six hours late, start drinking at 11, punch lawyers, and sleep with the account managers. Why would you want to hire one? (Rock stars are also generally uninterested in working on your unfunded demand-side mobile-advertising-as-a-service startup.)
The back and forth between Honest Tea and Coca-Cola, its biggest investor: Coke executives asked Honest Tea to remove the words “no high fructose corn syrup” from its juice pouches because the execs considered them an implicit attack on Coke products that do contain the syrup. Honest Tea refused to cave and the product continues to proclaim, “no high fructose corn syrup.