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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
As billionaire PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel put it: [You] probably won’t have a bunch of equally good distribution strategies. Engineers frequently fall victim to this because they do not understand distribution. Since they don’t know what works, and haven’t thought about it, they try some sales, BD, advertising, and viral
... See moreGabriel Weinberg • Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
The Grand Complication reveals another fundamental characteristic of luxury goods: as price rises into the stratosphere, the number of units available also seems to disappear into ever-thinner air.
Hermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
A new willingness to pay 💳: Superhuman costs $30 per month. Roam plans to charge $15 per month — that’s an unprecedented willingness to pay. Will this scare people away? Definitely, but this is part of the plan (see above).
Felix Schmitt • The Era of Opinionated Productivity Software: Superhuman, Roam, What’s Next? | HackerNoon
Admission to a top school can be life changing, but in a country that graduates over 3.5 million people from high school every year, the 1,700-person freshman class at Harvard is immaterial. Over the past 30 years, the number of seats at Ivy League schools has increased only 14 percent, while the number of high school graduates has expanded by 44... See more
Scott Galloway • Higher Ed 2.0 (What We Got Right/Wrong) | No Mercy / No Malice
Tobi Lütke - Building Islands of Innovation - [Invest Like the Best, EP.393] — Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
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Here are the [lightly edited] slides from my talk at Columbia Business School.
In this, I trace a history of business across media and commerce.
I attempt to show that all massive growth was as a result of distribution alpha. And the end of that alpha killed most of the businesses in that... See more
