Interview with Luca Rubinacci, Part 2

[9thsymph]

In both cases I was talking about marketing. It's one thing to take or refuse clients; it is another to choose to discuss them.

Obviously, you are implying that finance is not honest, fair, or productive. This a commonly held belief among people who don't understand what the financial industry does, and/or listen to the financial crisis era political blowhards that needed a scapegoat other than themselves.

The "productive" issue is laughably ridiculous and hardly needs to be addressed. Have fun with no financial system. It is only morons who think that an industry needs a tangible widget output product (etc) to be a productive.

Is every person in every financial firm fair and honest? Obviously not. But I'd put them up against any other industry. Don't act like every tailor, plumber, contractor, waiter, lawyer, doctor, and chef is a saint. And people in the financial industry are subject to inordinately more regulations and expectations, and often have inordinately more exposure to situations where honesty and fairness are critical.

I think someone suggested you were an economic professor or something like that in a thread years ago, so I would think you'd know and appreciate these things to some extent. There is, of course, plenty of room for academia to be disconnected from reality, and the major leftist bent as well. Thus my response.

Damn...No suits for anybody then I guess...

 

[unbelragazzo]



Just another clarification. It's not that he should be ashamed to sell. Luca, as any lucent person, knows his interview is part of the firm's marketing aparatus. I'm am surprised at the choice to inject that image into the firm's marketing aparatus, that is all.

Not nice to make fun of Luca's shiny bald dome.

 

[JubeiSpiegel]



Just another clarification. It's not that he should be ashamed to sell. Luca, as any lucent person, knows his interview is part of the firm's marketing aparatus. I'm am surprised at the choice to inject that image into the firm's marketing aparatus, that is all.

Maybe that is a market Rubinacci wants to build on, who knows if his choice of story was incidental, or purposeful...

 

[unbelragazzo]



Just another clarification. It's not that he should be ashamed to sell. Luca, as any lucent person, knows his interview is part of the firm's marketing aparatus. I'm am surprised at the choice to inject that image into the firm's marketing aparatus, that is all.

He's clearly interested in making Rubinacci a worldwide brand, and that's been a large part of his role in the company, so to the extent that he meant to make that a part of his marketing pitch, I think that's why.

 

[Luc-Emmanuel]



He's clearly interested in making Rubinacci a worldwide brand, and that's been a large part of his role in the company, so to the extent that he meant to make that a part of his marketing pitch, I think that's why.

Yes, that's probably the idea. Nevertheless, I consider it to be detracting from his image to market selling suits to Kazak politicians.
!luc

 

[LA Guy]

I think that you guys are taking this out of context. As I read it, that was just a funny anecdote. While what Luca does is marketing, that was not marketing copy, just a story to tell an interviewer. That said, we may have inadvertently just done our first piece of gotcha journalism! In other news, oil sheiks might also be bespoke clients! (Dolce&Gabbana and other non-SF approved brands are reserved for the younger set of corrupt countries.)