WSJ reveals Quibi already burned through $1.75 billion; also it was going to be named "Omakase"

[belandlix]

Some tidbits in here:https://t.co/fqwbt2JYOB
-An early proposed name for Quibi was "Omakase"
-Quibi is on pace to miss its subscriber targets by a wide margin
-Quibi is expecting it will have to raise at least $200 million by the back half of 2021
- Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) June 14, 2020

Comments

[invisiblegirlx]

omakase? Can English speakers even pronounce that properly? No wonder they changed it.

[kamikashi]

i was about to say, aside from frequent sushi eaters and subtitled anime watchers, most english speakers prob wouldnt pronounce it correctly lol.

[euraylie]

Yeah the ‘e’ at the end would have been a challenge to most I assume

[senshicalico]

just imagine your friend asking you if you've heard of "OH MAY CASE"

[senshicalico]

I was literally thinking "thank god they didn't go with that because imagining my fellow americans pronouncing it is giving me hives."