Ex-Apple retail head Angela Ahrendts joins Kim Kardashian

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Former Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts has joined the Kim Kardashian private equity firm SKKY Partners, taking a key position at the company.

Announced on Monday, Ahrendts will be taking the role of senior operating adviser at SKKY, with a focus on brand assessment. She will be identifying and assessing brands for potential investment, whether SKKY can add value, and to offer coaching and mentoring to firms in SKKY's portfolio.

"There are rare times in life when you meet people whose vision and mission and values are just so aligned to yours and then you feel collectively that you really can do something different," Ahrendt told the Wall Street Journal.

"As we continue to expand SKKY Partners and focus on identifying strategic investment opportunities for the firm, it was the perfect time to have Angela join us," said Kim Kardashian in a statement. "Angela's wealth of leadership experience and deep understanding of building brands and influencing culture makes her a natural fit for the firm."

Ahrendts served as the head of Apple Retail for five years, stepping down from the position in April 2019. During her tenure, she helped Apple expand its store presence, as well as introducing Today at Apple and improving internal systems.

Since departing Apple, Ahrendts also has positions on the boards of Ralph Lauren, AirBnb, and WPP.

SKKY is still building up its managerial roster, and is in the process of raising its first fund.

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bloggerblog

What would you say she did at Apple? The stores look just the same as they did before she started and still look the same after she left. Oh I know, she got paid loads of money for doing nothing.

Woke me up before you go go!

robin huber

Much better fit, plaid and all. 

Most managers are basically place-holding chair-warmers. Corporations require a hierarchical structure with someone (anyone) to function as a pass-through. Kinda like the human version of a router or server: not much of significance added to the flow, but things are kept moving in the right direction. When nothing terrible happens during their tenure, and the company grows in spite of them, they gain a reputation and a higher paying chair elsewhere. Being a good talker and attractive (male or female) is always a plus. There are exceptions, of course, but few and far between. The word functionary comes to mind. 

jimh2

Another professional leach moving from company to company without actually doing anything of value except talking a big game.

danox

Tim Cook was blinded/mesmerized by that British accent two times in a row, when the right person who should’ve been hired into that position, was already working at Apple.

The right person was there all along.

StrangeDays

bloggerblog said:

What would you say she did at Apple? The stores look just the same as they did before she started and still look the same after she left. Oh I know, she got paid loads of money for doing nothing.

Woke me up before you go go!

Idiotic nonsense. Sorry you don’t feel women can do anything and hiring women is “woke”. Oh, please define woke for us. 

StrangeDays

jimh2 said:

Another professional leach moving from company to company without actually doing anything of value except talking a big game.

Before running Apple retail she was a highly successful CEO. Your bias is showing. 

foregoneconclusion

Private equity firms don't "add value" to the companies they purchase. They manipulate tax and bankruptcy codes to generate huge amounts of $$ for themselves while having near zero accountability for what happens to the companies/employees they're involved with. 

robin huber

StrangeDays said:

jimh2 said:

Another professional leach moving from company to company without actually doing anything of value except talking a big game.

Before running Apple retail she was a highly successful CEO. Your bias is showing. 

Point taken, but then the Mango Mussolini was a successful CEO too. Not an automatic qualifier.

Spitbath

robin huber said:

StrangeDays said:

jimh2 said:

Another professional leach moving from company to company without actually doing anything of value except talking a big game.

Before running Apple retail she was a highly successful CEO. Your bias is showing. 

Point taken, but then the Mango Mussolini was a successful CEO too. Not an automatic qualifier.

Define "successful."

Calvin_Hobbes

"There are rare times in life when you meet people whose vision and mission and values are just so aligned to yours and then you feel collectively that you really can do something different."

I asked Chat GPT to translate this corporate-speak:

"There are times in life when you meet people with more money than sense."

FileMakerFeller

"Reach for the SKKY..." (with apologies to Toy Story)

jeffharris

robin huber said:

StrangeDays said:

jimh2 said:

Another professional leach moving from company to company without actually doing anything of value except talking a big game.

Before running Apple retail she was a highly successful CEO. Your bias is showing. 

Point taken, but then the Mango Mussolini was a successful CEO too. Not an automatic qualifier.

If bankrupting your company 6 times (and counting), 7 if you include a tax scam PAC, is considered “successful”, that would be a very low bar to clear, indeed.