The old model was they sold themselves to the cable companies, and the cable companies sold HBO to consumers.
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The old model was they sold themselves to the cable companies, and the cable companies sold HBO to consumers.
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The old model was they sold themselves to the cable companies, and the cable companies sold HBO to consumers.
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Quite right, trumpets are already made in volume and thus are already sold at their marginal cost of production.
Twitter's valuation problem is that they sold Wall Street on a user growth story instead of revenue growth story.
Slice was founded by Stanford GSB entrepreneurs who have built, sold, and taken multiple companies public.
At night the process reverses and now the 'newly minted green electrons' get added to the green energy already being sold.
One popular inspiration is the user @patio11 - his BingoCardCreator site unexpectedly took off, going from side project to lifestyle to sold product.
I picked a new technology stack which took off (one billion Android phones sold last year).
Then again if it was all run privately with no regulation, all the water would probably be put in bottles and sold at 1000x the price.
Once the shares are sold, the company no longer owns them, so whatever happens, happens, just like whenever you sell anything else.
Soylent 2.0 (liquid) is being sold alongside Soylent 1.5 (powder).
It's also important to note that the liquid is being sold as 400kcal is a serving (X bottles at 400kcal each) while the powder is being sold as 500kcal/16 oz prepared is a serving (X meals at 500kcal each with 4 meals to a pouch/28 meals to a box).
Is Soylent ever going to be sold in Europe?
Quote examples
I'm not sold that "10x developers" really exist, but I know that "0x developers" are plentiful: these candidates aren't just a "poor fit", they are entirely unable to do the job they're applying for.
Mana is slightly better although I'm not sold on it's nutritional make up either, I've been using it to avoid eating total crap when I'm swamped or have to work late since it's better to chug down it than order another 10" pizza or a burger when you have to work late.
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How do you use sold in a sentence?
The old model was they sold themselves to the cable companies, and the cable companies sold HBO to consumers.