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Michael Léger
@mcleger
Cajun in Chicago. Marketing Exec. Startup Advisor. Formerly Anheuser-Busch, Publicis, and more. Dad of 2 rad boys. Drummer. Opinions=mine.
Chicago, ILJoined November 2008

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Interesting that the three big luxury goods holding companies (LVMH, Richemont, Kering) are family-run. Are public companies incapable of the long-term reverse logic necessary to create this kind of alchemical value?
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LVMH becomes first European company to reach $500bn market value ft.com/content/b8f4da via @financialtimes
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Google's business model is based on having an imperfect answer to your questions. If they show a bunch of results they can insert adds in them. Wonder what happens when we start switching to conversational searching like the GPT-3 stuff.
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GPT-3 has basically replaced Google for me for searching through humanity's collective memory. Example below. The Google result is reminiscent of AltaVista from c.a. 1998.
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And to think so many homes in Chicago flooded a couple weeks back from rain because our street drains suck.
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When a storm surge jacks the water level 8-12 feet And the shoreline community areas are 6-16 feet above sea level colliercountygmd.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappvie One fact remains: Those who live on tropical coastal areas do so at the whim of nature. 4000 days of beauty negated by one day of fury
Please don’t be one of our bartenders… Please don’t be one of our bartenders… Please don’t be one of our bartenders… Please don’t be one of our bartenders… Please don’t be…
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Felony bond court — A man is charged with felony criminal damage to property at Sox park. Judge Beach: Unfortunately, the Illinois Department of Corrections has ordered a no-bail hold on you. Defendant: I got a job! I gotta be there at 6 p.m.! Judge: You're not gonna make it.
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Me: Reluctantly clicks Calendly link and schedules meeting. Them: “Sorry that doesn’t work for me.” Sends new invite for a time I’m booked. (every damn time)
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I use “ma’am”. Does that make me spam?
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Has anyone received a message like this on ⁦@InstagramComms⁩ ? They want me to click on a form… and called me “ma’am” (only spammers use ma’am) … and they follow ⁦@Beastof_Bourbon
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