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parsimo2010

This is a pretty entertaining story about a “sport” I was only vaguely aware of, because my school did not do sport stacking (or maybe I’m too old). But I have seen a few videos of it online, and it’s pretty neat to find out it was popularized by an enthusiastic clown/school teacher who made some risky business decisions. I’m glad it worked out and they didn’t go bankrupt with thousands of cups in their basement.

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I would make fun of this as a PE event, but when I graduated high-school (US) we were still wearing parachute pants and break dancing to the Fat Boys. So I'll refrain from throwing stones. Each generation has their own precious cringe.

To be fair, they had demand and were lacking supply at the point that they made their first large purchase. It was a bit risky, but probably not near as bad as an ordinary startup's chance of failure.

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