Indirect-to-Consumer: The E-commerce Rollup Business
Plus! M&A and the FTC; Effective Supply and Liquidity; Netflix Bites the Corporate Culture Bullet; Dirigisme with British Characteristics; Watson as a Demo
Plus! M&A and the FTC; Effective Supply and Liquidity; Netflix Bites the Corporate Culture Bullet; Dirigisme with British Characteristics; Watson as a Demo
Plus! Two (or more) Chip Supply Chains; AI-as-a-Service; Game Theory and Margin Calls; Scale and Limits; Trading Through It; The Fame Business
Plus! Facebook vs Bullying; Scale and AI; Chip Shortage Updates; Decarbonization; Supermicro, Redux
Plus! Sanctions, Continued; The More-Than-SolarWinds Hack; Defense Tech; Regulation and Scale; Explaining the Unprofitable Stock Rally; Reverse War Economy Continues
Plus! Big Tech Sees Like a State Update; Why Don't Car Subscriptions Work; Taylorism-as-a-Service; The Semiconductor Boom; R&D and the Genius Problem
Plus! News Recap; News-About-News Recap; AI and White-Collar Jobs; Insiders, Outsiders, and Short-Selling; Yale Buys Low; More on Cybersecurity
Plus! Institutional Bitcoin; Credit, Trust, and Card-Counting; What Democracy Looks Like; Valuable Discoveries; Shopify and Management by Metaphor; From Full-Stack to Software
Plus! Halfway; Activism, Shareholder and Otherwise; Employee Benefits and Marginal Costs; Fixing the Saudi Economic Barbell; Amazon, Niche Player
Plus! Slack, Salesforce, and Aggregation; Germany Pays Up to Preserve Intra-Eurozone Transfers; RIP Giscard; Stripe Treasury and Legibility; GP, Inc.; Scale.ai
Plus! Boy Band National Champions;Protein Folding; Golden Handcuffs; Amazon vs Wish Rolls On
Plus! Weekly Q&A, Work-From-Home Metrics, The Single-State Pension Bailout, Emergency Use, Collective Bargaining for Data, More...
Plus! Coming Attractions, Fortnite and Apple, Apple's Other App Problem, Theaters and Two-Sided Networks, AI Economics, Wealth Taxes, and much more...