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		covidacct on April 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GM shuts down car-sharing service Maven OT, but does anyone know where the "learnings" phrase in corporatese come from? I noticed it five or six years ago and now it's everywhere. The first time I heard it was from a German VP and I assumed it was some sort of odd transliteration or maybe a Borat reference, but that hypothesis is obviously invalidated.

tlb on April 22, 2020 [–]

I've heard it occasionally for a long time, but not much in the startup world.

It's a word you reach for when you've burned through millions of dollars and someone asks, "What do we have to show for it?" "Learnings."

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