Distribution Determined Design
In 2020, I started to realise that building products was getting commoditized, and that distribution was becoming more valuable.
The Company As An Organism
Now: Build the distribution, then build the product
Anthony Pompliano • Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes
To understand Product Design, you need to understand the tech industry.
The underlying appeal in software as a business is scale . With zero marginal costs, you can build your product just once and put it in the hands of billons. The goal is scale, and the strategy is growth.
But this strategy of endless growth cuts against one of the fundamental pri... See more
The underlying appeal in software as a business is scale . With zero marginal costs, you can build your product just once and put it in the hands of billons. The goal is scale, and the strategy is growth.
But this strategy of endless growth cuts against one of the fundamental pri... See more
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software
“Getting distribution on something new is insanely hard in this day in age”
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Daniel Ek – The Future of Audio - [Invest Like the Best, EP.147]
If Nest had only disrupted hardware—if we had just built the Nest Learning Thermostat alone—we would have failed. Utterly. We needed to disrupt the sales and distribution channel, too.