YOU CANT MAKE THIS STUFF UP. 

Serialized funkos incoming

As if I ever needed more of a reason to never touch funkos.

Cynthia Phillip Morris bout to smoke another company 😂

I can't wait for her first quarterly company update with the shareholders.....when she reads off the funkopop Wikipedia page....🤦‍♂️

I guess Funko putting out the ‘Rudy Pop’ is out of the question now.

Time to reprint all the high dollar Pops.

Per the FUNKO Press Release: “During her tenure at Hasbro, Williams successfully scaled areas of growth and positioned the Gaming division for continued success amid evolving consumer demand.” 😂

Years ago the president or CEO of a company started at the bottom and worked their way through the ranks. They know how the company works. Now a company will bring in a smart lawyer or a person who had a high position at another company. They know nothing how the company works. These companies offer ridiculous salary packages to these people. Now a president or CEO can drive a company into the ground and get bonuses for that. If they get fired, they walk away laughing all the way to the bank with their "Golden Parachute" worth millions. There should be laws against this happening. It's the same thing with the politicians. They are hard to get out of office and have so much power. They pass ridiculous laws that benefit the rich. Money talks! They get paid off by the big companies and in the end, it is the little guy who loses. Thank you for the video Rudy.

When I was a college student I had a professor tell me it's not what I know but who I know. I didn't realize at the time how true it is. Money and connections make the difference. Meanwhile the people on the bottom get terminated for under performing.

Rudy got the most sensical articulation of why money is important I've heard in a long time. Should get that shit printed on my wall.

People at cocktail parties asking what a Funko is

Rudy: Maybe it was nepotism, you can google the word. Me, an italian: I don't really need to.

Pops are a load of junk anyway, it’s impossible to make them worse 😂 She’ll do well there 😃

Its almost like once Blackrock gets 5% shares in a company, stuff like this happens. How odd.

As someone who works at company with a corporate hierarchy I see this all the time. People continue fail upward into C-Suite jobs. Bad quarter? Bad decisions? Doesn’t matter promote them!

I have a couple Funko pops, but it blows my mind that entire stores dedicated to them exist. The bummer is that I see quite a few comic/game shops have leaned heavily into Funko to make ends meet. It's been an important lifeline, but I'm not sure what happens to them when the fad dies out.

As a person who has collected Funko for a decade, and already seen it dying. This is the nail in the coffin

An executive so awful she's got Rudy questioning capitalism. Is that some kind of new record?

She showed a willingness to fuck over customers for even the smallest profit. Seems like all larger companies have moved to the model of "fuck the customer, we just want their wallet"

I worked for a company in Seattle that fired a director for embezzlement. He moved to Colorado and got another job as a director. Why this happens, I really do not know.

CEO's, Presidents, and other executives seem to be rewarded for a bad job. The videogame industry is also a mess with thousands of layoffs while the ones on top get bonuses.

The corporate circle-jerk: get fired for performance at one job, get another job at a successful company instantly upon getting fired. _Helps if you're part of a special group that they can use to tell everyone how inclusive they are..._

What the Funko?!?

BlackRock doesn't care how many companies it has to sacrifice

Maybe she was the only CEO they could afford. Or maybe she was the only one that was interested in the job. Does anyone even want to be the CEO of funko pop?

How malfunctioning executives can maintain careers sabotaging company after company is INSANE

Rudy, when’s Metazoo going to be on the bookshelf?

I'm in no way a money guru. BUT! Seeing this? If I had any position in funkopops, I would firesale this stuff like it was made of ice cream sitting in the desert.

Reprints of Vaulted Funko's incoming in 5,4,3,2....

Pop funkos are the energy drink of collectables.

In my previous company, the CEO lost over USD 3 million in his 2 years and never saw any growth in any department or metrics. He does things because "he likes" rather than looking at trends and market research. The chairman, aka founder, kept him around as he speaks, dresses, and smokes well. Eventually this CEO started hiring all his friends who agree every of his decisions. At the high executive level, it is really mostly about connections and nepotism hires.

and there goes my masters of universe 1/6 collection!

Funko apparently still not sick of dumping Pops in landfills?😬

Get ready for, “The little Short.”

I just come here for the, “Folks!”

I know of a dude that just undermined his way to the top sabotaging his bosses and shifting companies to climb up. His goal make his numbers look good at whatever cost just to make the shit shine just a little brighter. Usually after he was promoted out it'd be the next guy's job to fix everything and the numbers to look less amazing.

Do terribly at one big time corporate job, get golden parachute, get new big time corporate job at another company, repeat cycle.

Failing upwards has always been the norm😂

I see... Funko has chosen death.

Company that boomed and then busted because of overproduction of products hiring a CEO whose biggest sin was overprinting products. I wish I could continually fail my way to success like that.

Ripley we better get in soon, they mostly come out at night mostly.

how can a company focused on making the worst "miniatures" or whatever, working with the cheapest products like vinyl and plastic that probably cost them $1 for each toy produced, while selling at the very least 2500% profit margin with a massive clientele that hoards these ridiculous toys can even have a net loss?

No way... Didn't think they could get any cheaper over time, then I see this 😂

Mind blowing

April 1st was a few weeks back.

watch his shirt from 32 seconds to 37 seconds.....aliens?

to each there own, over 30k in pops. made close to 150k in sells in 10 years as a side hustle. Haven't bought new since 2020.

But a female CEO is so heckin diverse!! Mega heckin' DEI points++++!

Rudy's basement about to get a hell of a lot more full

would selling Funko's directly through Amazon work for this brand if they limited print runs? It didnt work for MTG because of the LGS business model does Funko have the same issue?

Seems a good fit

I wonder what the ‘tent pole’ Funkos are going to be… 🤔

Has honest and genuine business ever even existed?

Funky Pop is a meme bobble heads decor ornaments company, which I never understand why people buy those things.

looks like chris is not the only cox she knows

I mentioned Fukko Pops being expensive to one of the absolute least intelligent people I've ever had as a coworker several years ago, and even he had the foresight to immediately say "So they're just Beanie Babies?" I started seeing them in thrift stores years ago. I'm frankly amazed that the company is still around and stores are still clearing out insane shelf space for them.

Ahh, yes. A failing brand of unwanted "collectables" that peaked and fell off hard has hired a woman who managed to almost turn a successful and desirable collectable into a damaged commodity. Surely a good idea.

Cynthia if you are reading this please make a Rudy Funkopop, I will buy one!

we the consumer, may not like her but from a investor's perspective she did a good job in magic, the line went up and she has put in her time

It's business strategy is to license whatever is out there in pop culture at the moment.

She's like the Vince Russo of collectible things.

Years ago TSR (owners of Dungeons & Dragons at the time) were almost bankrupted by a Lorraine Williams. TSR were later bought by WotC and the rest is history. I wonder if they’re related? They look similar…….

Funko pop is the weirdest fad. When I see it I have pog flashbacks.....

Next CEO to be hired after Cynthia... Mike Waddell!

I like some funkos like gears of war and overwatch but its clear they overproduced like crazy at a point

A free cigarette in every Funko box!

I read title of this video and literally LMAO and said WTF

will we have universe beyond funko pop?

Think of all of the mass Funkos reprints!

Hilarious! After she finishes off the Funko Pop franchise ... will she attempt to sell Tulips?

Recycling failed CEOs is a feature of capitalism, not a flaw. That class of people look out for each other and their shared interests.

Pops have a reserved list. Nothing like beanie babies .

Free content for Rudy

Its actually quite simple. CEO's can't be held accountable. Because if they did then it would require the company to take ownership of their mistakes, which would drop the value of their stock. So instead what they do is they give them a nice care package to leave. Then they vacation for a bit and use their contacts to get another nice cushy job to repeat the same method as before.

Feels like nortel almost

I really want to know who were the other candidates lol maybe its like the NFL Draft

But they are already dumping inventory in landfill so what does she bring to the table 😂

Well, that's corporate America in a nutshell. C-Suites always fail upwards.

CEO is such a sweet gig. Failing up every step of the way.

I always figured that Cynthia Williams operated as directed by papa hasbro, wish I knew more

R.I.P Funko…

"We feel funko pops are under monetized so we need to raise the cost and 5x the stupid variants and make serialized ones to really attract the whales. They will be limited editions of 100,000 of each unique Pop"

Short $FNKO, got it.

Cynthia Milk n’ Burn Williams. It’s not what you know, it’s who you blow

Funko pop Amazon dumps coming in at 1.99 a pop 🥰

... 'as a company looking to be driven into financial disaster and irrelevance, we have found our ideal candidate with a stellar track record of previous performance that matches exactly what we're trying to accomplish here"

I agree lad

just be aware there will be big Funko-Pop Amazon fire sales

She fits the funko strategy model tho. They don't hide that they've over produced pops, it's their bread and butter. Funko doesn't make money on scarcity. The stickers r the only form of differentiaton and beyond that it's on the fans to go get autographs. Funko won't go the way of beanie babies bec they don't lie about the over production. It's a key difference. Beanie baby failed bec they lied to the consumers AND the stores. Very important difference.

Wow.

They hired her to put the company out of it's misery. Solid play.

Time to buy some Puts

She will probably have to look up what a funko is as well.

Wow. I own exactly one Funko Pop. Jim Henson's. At the moment only plan on owning one more. The Kermit one to go with my Jim Henson one. And only because I collect Kermit stuff. Have honestly never got what all the hype is with them. 🤷‍♀️

OMG! LOL Dumpster fire

When someone gets fired from a position, especially when a CEO loses their job at the very top, they lost their job for a reason. Corporate boards don't look into peoples pasts at all. They just pass the baton repeatedly over and over to CEO's as they just keep screwing up.

The title says it all, sadly, it really does.

To be correct/ specific: she was CEO of WotC - not Hasbro

From funko to fuckshoe 😂 gl with your new ceo

Gotta get that DEI money