Act 1: From Linear Businesses to Aggregators and Back — Packy McCormick

Aggregation, acquisitions, and partnerships will happen at the product layer as much or more than in web2, even given an interoperable and composable landscape. People will want fewer rather than more Prime-like memberships, so established organizations with already successful products will have an edge on building or partnering with complementary ... See more

Drucker grew up in an era when the most successful businesses dominated through their manufacturing power and cenntralized staff. But he now predicted that this was going to change—in fact, it would reverse completely

In the future, he claimed, control over distribution would become more important than manufacturing or marketing or research.

As organizations succeed and grow, they become more formalized, more bureaucratic, more careful, more remote from customers, and slower to act. Diseconomies of scale begin to work, overshadowing the cost advantages of size. Overhead grows, decision-making slows. Direct feedback from customers is reduced, filtered, and often ignored. The demon of af

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