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Alexandre Dewez • 🍿 A Deep-dive into goPuff's Strategy to Conquer the Grocery Market
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Frank Slootman • TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story
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Max Harms • Crystal Society (Crystal Trilogy Book 1)
"content is kind, distribution will be everywhere."
Bob Iger • Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger
he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
he worked as Netscape's product manager to pivot the server product line. Microsoft's IIS had all the features they had, was five times faster, and was free. Mike Homer and he worked furiously to acquire and partner. they beat Microsoft and grew the server line to $400M.
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz
This is what I call the "Hub and Spoke" model — leverage a core subscription userbase and then upsell additional offerings to gain a larger share of wallet from your core customers. Until recently, this option seemed out of reach for most Consumer SaaS companies struggling to simply generate enough demand to support a single product at scale.
Brett Bivens • The Consumer Subscription Roll-Up Opportunity
This PDF contains part of the infamous email thread where Steve is negotiating iBook pricing/access.