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Google, Bloomberg, Yelp, and ZoomInfo are all data businesses. They acquire their data in different ways, and they generate revenue from that data in different ways. But for all these companies, data is the fundamental unit of value creation.

Abraham Thomas • The Economics of Data Businesses

New titles might not have increased his influence. By the start of the 1960s Baker was engaged in a willfully obscure second career, much like the one Mervin Kelly had formerly conducted, a career that ran not sequentially like some men’s—a stint in government following a stint in business, or vice versa—but simultaneously, so that Baker’s various

Jon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

There is a broad middle of more-or-less commodity, more-or-less undifferentiated choices that depend on distribution and aggregation to be chosen.

Benedict Evans • The Facebook of ecommerce — Benedict Evans

Differentiation and Value Capture in the Internet Age

Ben Thompson stratechery.com

The goal is to lock every single person into one platform—to own them from sunup to sundown, to know everything about them and monetize their every thought.

Hank Green • A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)

When our new dryer’s electrical power singed the dryer sheet and caught fire, I was fortunate enough to prevent any further trouble. But I found that the easy part was over with the damage caused to our basement. The harder part was dealing with an antiquated system of supply chain, service, and logistics. The longer Americans are sheltered in plac... See more

Web Smith • ON DTC AND HOME IMPROVEMENT

Dave smartly built a list of his most valued customers. You controlled it. That means Dave is no longer dependent on any third party service like Groupon, Google, or Facebook.

Frankie Fihn • Beyond the Agency Box

Grantland and the (Surprising) Future of Publishing

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