What’s the most laughably boring company you’ve ever consulted for? Write a one-liner on what they do below👇

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Internal client. Consulting for a consulting firm sucks

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Sell hot dogs

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An IT holding company, all they do is buy small/medium IT businesses, barely even do anything with em

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Stuff scented petroleum waste products in glass containers

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Ding ding ding! They were a white label scented candle maker for a number of name brands.

They hired us to do research on potential new product lines outside the candle space, but I think they shelved their expansion plans for at least a few years.

But hey, I got a few free candles out of it!

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Manufacturers cheap <$0.05 foam pads, thermal glue, and metal shielding that goes in industrial electronic devices

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Industrial manufacturing can be so 😴

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Plastic tubes. All kinds of tubes, a handful of different plastics.

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Sell companies financial benefits that companies already have

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That tar-like coating that you put on roofs.

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Ned Ryerson sells their product

Run the country

Oops I didn’t see the boring part

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California🔥s

Jewish space lasers?

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washing machines and dryers

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment wholesaler/distributor.

A European company that makes drugs and that experimented them on Jewish folk in the 1940s.

They transform useless oil into useful oil

2 companies. One made thousands of varieties of windows seals. The other manages washers and dryers in apartments.

Buy a profitable company, leech off their profit for a few years until no longer profitable, divest something and repeat. Revolving door of a company with big cash reserves.

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