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Like everything else about Alameda Research, this bid by the firm’s other managers to get rid of Sam proved complicated. For a start, Sam owned the entire company. He’d structured it so that no one else had equity, only promises of equity down the road.
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Center for Journalism & Liberty • Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
Non-monopolists exaggerate their distinction by defining their market as the intersection of various smaller markets:
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
When another company, Power Ventures, sought to integrate different social networks in a single client, Facebook sued and prevailed in a California courtroom.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
App-Store Monopoly
Peter Hagen • 10 cards
large technology monopolies such as Google need to be broken up and regulated, because their consolidated power and cultural influence make competition largely impossible. This monopoly in the information sector is a threat to democracy,
Safiya Umoja Noble • Algorithms of Oppression
Digital Goods & Collectibles
sari and • 23 cards