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#163 — Joseph Pine: Why Customers Don’t Care About What You Sell
36 minutes Posted Mar 17, 2026 at 2:00 pm.
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Joe Pine is the co-author of The Experience Economy—and one of the thinkers who gave leaders a language for why “services” weren’t the end of the story. In this episode, Joe returns with his next major thesis: we’ve entered the Transformation Economy, where the customer is no longer buying inputs (features, service hours, or even memorable moments), but paying for outcomes—lasting change. We unpack what makes a transformation fundamentally different from an experience, why experiences are in...