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When pressed, all of them would admit that in the race between the omnivorous web and their burgeoning technology, the web was winning
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
(“Where will I be allowed to make a profit?”)
Adrian J. Slywotzky • The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
People’s consumption habits have evolved, but communication hasn’t.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
Adam ran his company with a Trumpian hubris.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
Sullivan and Weiss weren’t merely the victims of some ethereal struggle between the forces of free speech and ideological censorship: they were the collateral damage of shifting media business models. And there will be lots more of them before this drama finishes.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Twilight of the Media Elites
Instead of leveling the field between small and large, the open Internet has dramatically tilted it in favor of the most massive players.
Astra Taylor • The People's Platform
By the end of the decade, Masa had developed a reputation for audacious bets.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
In an information industry the cost of monopoly must not be measured in dollars alone, but also in its effect on the economy of ideas and images, the restraint of which can ultimately amount to censorship.
Tim Wu • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Hurley ran YouTube like someone who used YouTube and his exit cleared the way for managers to run YouTube Google’s way, with spreadsheets and algorithms.