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...through the roof,” said b.good co-founder Jon Olinto, who noted that the price of beef had risen from $3.25 per pound to over $4 in the course of three months. “Even though it only seems like 80 cents, that stuff adds up really, really quickly—a burger isn’t just the beef. We work on low margin of profit and economies of scale; we rely on selling a lot of sandwiches, so it has a huge impact on us.” Felipe’s owner Tom Brush...
...superhero and science fiction comics. Basically I used to copy comic books, and draw my own comics on scrap paper. But I had an education which was rather hostile to that, because I was quite clever at school, and I could do other things like physics and chemistry and stuff, and so I got kind of sidetracked...
...thinking also of the things that we stubbornly stuck to even though they obviously, now, didn't work. Like the full-body Rorschach blob. Which was a terrible idea. Why?! All you ever really want to see is his face-if every time he does his stuff he's got to open his coat, you know, stand there with his coat open...I just can't see it. And a nightmare to draw as well, because it would have shadows falling on it...agh, it would be awful. But we were obviously very very fond of that...
...Alan as well. We used to get the American comics imported, and it wasn't just the stories, it was the whole thing of Tootsie Rolls and Schwinn bicycles. This is the kind of thing we'd talk about for hours on the phone. All this stuff that to you Americans is everyday stuff, as boring to you as our everyday stuff...
...also possible to flourish at high-tech companies without being, well, high-tech. "If you're in the sales side of technology, that's a pretty good place to be," Hoagland says. "Until we find bottom, what [companies] are going to be focused on is short-term stuff. It's sales and marketing...