The Stagnation Assassin Show
Welcome to the world's most BRUTAL business transformation channel!
I'm Todd Hagopian, CEO of Stagnation Assassins and Executive Director of the Stagnation Intelligence Agency. Every week, I deliver fast-paced, in-your-face episodes that teach aspiring stagnation assassins how to DECLARE WAR ON STAGNATION!
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💀 Strategic brutality that transforms companies
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Episodes
88 episodes
You Spent 6 Months Getting to 95% Confidence. The Answer Was the Same at 70%. | The 70% Rule
A Chinese competitor entered the market at 40% below our pricing. Leadership spent six months analyzing — market research, competitive teardowns, financial modeling, focus groups, engineering studies. By the time they decided correctly to repos...
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The Console Crusade: A Software Company Declared War On Sony And Nintendo — And Spent $4 Billion Winning
In 2001, Microsoft — a software company that made its fortune selling Windows and Office to accountants — decided it was going to war against Sony and Nintendo in gaming. An industry where Microsoft had zero credibility, zero existing audience,...
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5% of Your Business Creates All the Profit. The Other 95% Is Burning It Down. | The 80/20 Matrix
A 2 a.m. spreadsheet revealed a company's darkest secret: 100 customer-product combinations generated 150% of the profit, while 1,700 combinations destroyed the other 50%. Traditional accounting showed positive gross margins on nearly everythin...
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The Pink Cadillac Revolution: How A Fired Saleswoman Built An Army And Rewrote American Business
Mary Kay Ash has just been passed over for a promotion — again — in favor of a man she trained. She quits at 45, recently widowed, with $5,000 in savings. One month later, she launches Mary Kay Cosmetics from a storefront in Dallas, Texas. With...
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Book Review: Time Traps By Todd Duncan
Seventy-five percent of your workday is wasted. Not thirty percent. Not even half. You're clocking in for eight hours and selling for ninety minutes. If your company's time sheet told the truth, most of your sales team would be classified as a ...
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The Clone Conquest: Instagram Stole Snapchat's Entire Product And Wall Street Called It Genius
In 2016, Instagram walked into Snapchat's house, photographed the blueprints, walked back home, and built an exact replica. The tech press called it shameless. Snapchat's CEO called it flattery. Wall Street called it genius — and they were righ...
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Book Review: It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy - by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
What if two tech founders built a profitable company, gave their employees eight-hour days and summer Fridays, and told the entire hustle-culture movement to go to hell? That's what Jason Fried and DHH did at Basecamp. But what they're selling ...
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The Motorcycle Maverick: How Soichiro Honda Humiliated Every European Manufacturer On The Planet
It's 1948. Japan is a smoldering ruin. The economy is eviscerated. A man with no engineering degree, no factory, and no money walks into a shed and straps a surplus military engine to a bicycle. That man would go on to humiliate every single Eu...
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Six Words. Zero Budget. $400 Million: The Hotmail Hack That Invented Viral Marketing
Two guys with no marketing budget add six words to the bottom of every email sent through their platform — "P.S. I love you. Get your free email at Hotmail" — and watch one million users sign up in six months. Twelve million in eighteen months....
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Continuous Carnage: How Canon's Kaizen Machine Brought Western Manufacturing To Its Knees
In the 1970s, American manufacturers ruled the world — fat, bloated, arrogant empires of industrial dominance. Then Japanese companies started eating them alive. Not with better technology. Not with bigger budgets. With a philosophy. Canon was ...
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He Made $50,000 A Day And Deleted It: The Flappy Bird Business Autopsy
A solo developer in Hanoi builds a game in three days — no story, no multiplayer, no marketing budget, zero dollars on user acquisition — and starts generating $50,000 a day in ad revenue. Then, at the absolute peak of its success, he pulls it ...
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FOCUSING FIREPOWER & DOMINO DESTRUCTION: WHY "THE ONE THING" IS BRUTALLY SIMPLE AND SIMPLY BRUTAL
There's a Russian proverb: if you chase two rabbits, you'll catch neither. Gary Keller built the largest real estate company in the United States by chasing one. Your to-do list isn't a productivity tool. It's a stagnation spreadsheet. And unti...
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Tesla Bought a Dead Factory for $42M. It Was Worth $1 Billion. Here's What Happened.
In 2010, a car company that had never mass-produced a single vehicle bought a five-million-square-foot factory that two of the biggest automakers on Earth had abandoned. They paid $42 million for a plant that cost over a billion to build. Every...
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SALES SOPHISTICATION & SEQUEL SUPREMACY: WHY "THE CLOSERS PART 2" TURNS CLOSERS INTO CONQUERORS
Part 1 taught you how to close. Part 2 teaches you what real closers actually do with that knowledge once the fundamentals are locked in. The difference between a closer and a master closer isn't technique. It's thinking. And Ben Gay III just h...
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The Government Tried to Destroy Standard Oil. It Made Rockefeller Richer Than Ever.
In 1911, the United States government took the most powerful corporation on planet Earth and ripped it into 34 pieces. They thought they were punishing John D. Rockefeller. They thought they were destroying a monopoly. Instead, they made Rockef...
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RISK RECKONING & GUT-PUNCH GENIUS: WHY "RISK SAVVY" MIGHT BE THE SMARTEST BOOK NOBODY'S READING
One out of every twenty-six positive HIV tests is wrong. Your doctor probably can't explain why. Your financial advisor definitely can't. And the algorithm that just told you to sell your portfolio? It doesn't know the difference between risk a...
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Your Competitor Isn't Working Harder. They're Working on the Right Things. | The Karelin Method
You're working 60 hours a week and your competitor just stole your best customer. How? Because while you're spreading effort across 100 activities like confetti at a failure festival, one mathematical formula creates a 576% advantage on what ac...
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BACKWARD BRILLIANCE & BOARDROOM BLINDSPOTS: WHY "REVERSE INNOVATION" IS A FORTUNE 500 WAKE-UP CALL
GE built a twelve-thousand-dollar portable ultrasound machine for rural China. Then they brought it back to the United States and disrupted their own hundred-thousand-dollar product line. That's not a mistake. That's a revolution in reverse. Th...
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Book Review: The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel
Your company just promoted your best salesperson to sales manager. Congratulations — you just lost your best salesperson AND gained your worst manager in a single transaction. And you'll do it again next quarter. And the quarter after that. The...
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8:54
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IGNITION: HOW MICHAEL EISNER UNLOCKED A VAULT NOBODY ELSE COULD SEE — AND THEN LOCKED HIMSELF INSIDE IT
In 1984, Disney was worth $1.8 billion and bleeding relevance. No defining animated films. Underpriced parks. Corporate raiders circling for the kill. One man arrived, saw assets nobody else was valuing correctly, and over the next decade turne...
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8:48
A Track Coach Poured Rubber Into a Waffle Iron. It Built a $170 Billion Empire. Nike.
A track coach in Oregon pours rubber into his wife's waffle iron and accidentally invents the most iconic shoe sole in athletic history. But here's what nobody tells you: the waffle sole wasn't the genius. The genius was what came after — a sys...
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Stagnation Assassin MBA - Working Capital Warfare
Profitable companies run out of cash. Not because they lose money — because they grow too fast, collect too slowly, and pay too early. The income statement says they're winning. The bank account says they're dying. Working capital is where comp...
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Stagnation Assassin Book Review - Viral Loop
Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users in 18 months without spending a dime on advertising. They added seven words to the bottom of every email: "P.S. I love you. Get your free email at Hotmail." Seven words. Twelve million users. And the q...
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Stagnation Assassin Historical CEO Audit - Shantanu Narayen - Adobe
Adobe Creative Suite had a 98% gross margin software business selling perpetual licenses. In 2011, Narayen decided to destroy that revenue stream by moving to subscription pricing. The first two years looked like a disaster — revenue dropped, W...
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