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Indirect monopoly rent is when you can buy and sell things based on their relationship to something that derives direct monopoly rents.
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Monopolists, by contrast, disguise their monopoly by framing their market as the union of several large markets:
Peter Thiel • Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
Monopolists, by contrast, disguise their monopoly by framing their market as the union of several large markets:
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
a monopoly or near-monopoly on the market;
Benjamin Graham • The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed (Collins Business Essentials)
Controlling valuable pillars of internet utility -- the flow of information, social connections, music and video delivery -- has created tremendous wealth for a few while very little for stakeholders not on the company’s cap table.
Michael Lazerow • Venture Capital in a Decentralized World
changes to the policy map erased the legal boundary lines that had historically kept the owners of private communications infrastructure from simultaneously engaging in adjacent lines of business, including advertising and the production of news and entertainment programming
Center for Journalism & Liberty • Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
Firms in a competitive industry who sell a commodity product cannot turn a profit. But companies who have a monopoly can set their own prices since they offer an in-demand product that cannot be replicated. Monopoly firms are big fish in a small pond.