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Marc Andreessen, perhaps the world’s bellwether venture capitalist,
George Gilder • Life After Google
-Distribution: Pressure on platforms to improve transparency and economics. Data portability gives creators power.
Troy Young • Web3 and Media
Since no firm has any market power, they must all sell at whatever price the market determines.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
He took over potash and phosphorus manufacturing and choked off his competitors’ supplies.
Frank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
“only the paranoid survive”—was
Andrew Wilkinson • Never Enough
There’s a chance that none of the startups above succeeds; instead, the winner of user-generated audio might be a consumer internet incumbent.
Rex Woodbury • The Opportunity in Social Audio
Here we see a rift that will appear in virtually every information industry, the fault line between the virtues of centralized and of decentralized decision making, between the imperative to produce at scales that justify production costs and the desire for variety.
Tim Wu • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Painful software plus good distribution and high switching costs is a hard combination to kill.