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Some chalked up Hurley’s success to “luck,” in having created a workable video site just when Google and the world wanted one. But others credited Hurley’s instincts and sensibility for maintaining a service that normal people, even the less technically adept, found easy to use.
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Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the rise of the modern cable-TV business
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…Both Tencent and Alibaba, the sponsors of these ridesharing companies realized that the next battlefield in this longstanding war between the internet giants in China is going to be mobile payments. And that the taxi companies, the ride-hailing companies are ways to spur payment value with mobile payments. So they start to kind of use these two ri... See more
Ben Gilbert • The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store | Acquired Podcast
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The developer day and how the store was introduced was in inflection moment of Altman pushing too far, too fast. My bet: He’ll have a new company up by Monday.
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
WeWork’s growth-at-all-costs plan epitomized an increasingly popular Silicon Valley strategy known as blitzscaling,
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
The New York Times will triumph financially, dramatically so, and utterly fail as an intellectual institution, at least by its former standards. The editorial branding will be august pronouncements about ‘the paper of record’, but the business model is pure Netflix: All The News Fit To Binge.