Nuclear weapons and arms control
Incumbents vs. Startups: Disruptive innovation at big companies
Google - legal issues
Big lawsuits vs. Tech companies - legal challenges vs. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, more...
F1 Car Racing - Formula 1 Sports
Apple, Epic Games (Fortnite) and the App Store
Podcasting Platforms
Google - Founding story, history
Corporate Innovation - building a culture of disruption and innovation at bigger companies
Android - Google - Business Model, Strategy
Squad - Social Chat app - bought by Twitter, shut down
How Musicians make money in the Music Industry - tools, resources, apps, websites
Microsoft Teams - chat app for business
Examples - how companies use M&A Acquisitions as strategy to compete and grow
an introduction to game theory
Google Shopping
Target - retail business - Competing vs. Amazon, Walmart
"Denial is a river that flows through Cupertino!," said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, a notorious Apple critic who also sued the tech giant for (2024)
Why America’s corporate giants are surprisingly impervious to disruption. Incumbents from Walmart to General Motors are fighting back against disr... (2023)
There are all kinds of arguments to make about the App Store, and nearly all of them are good ones; that’s why the best solution can only come from... (2021)
Roblox is something new and interesting that abstracts away the platforms underneath it. (2021)
In the US, we are currently getting a master class in “how not to lose.” When I was young, my parents regularly said to me, “Don’t be a sore loser.... (2021)
The App Store is not one thing: it is installation, payments, and customer management; the further Apple gets from iOS, the worse its actions are f... (2020)
Some companies regret sharing information with the tech giant and its Alexa Fund. “We may have been naive in believing they weren’t competitive wit... (2020)
Slack lost to Microsoft head-to-head, but has smartly shifted to a horizontal strategy that the vertically-oriented Microsoft can’t match. (2020)
Facebook Shops are good for Shopify merchants, but bad for Shopify; the answer is to push more into the real world. (2020)
Brands have long been able to bid for the premier slot at the top left of Amazon’s listings, but during the pandemic the online retailer has begun ... (2020)
Critics have said that Google bundles its ad tools so that rivals can't afford to match its offerings and that its operation of search results, You... (2020)
There’s more to breakthrough products than being first to market. “... rise in the misconceptions surrounding category creation. The most common... (2019)
With someone in the press having broken their embargo earlier today, Intel is lifting the lid earlier than planned on their upcoming Cascade Lake... (2019)
Developers have come to accept that, without warning, Apple can make their work obsolete by announcing a new app or feature that essentially copies... (2019)
The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee. (2019)
Google Plus didn’t fail because Facebook is invulnerable. It failed because of deep flaws embedded in it from the very start. I joined the Googl... (2019)
Investigating Europe’s illegal truffle trade, where Tunisian truffles are often sold as expensive versions from Piedmont (2019)
We did a deep-dive into the 233-page ruling declaring Qualcomm a monopolist. (2019)
Just ahead of WWDC, Apple has launched a new App Store website in the hopes of better defending itself against recent antitrust and anti-competitiv... (2019)
Bellhead Randall Stephenson has assembled a media empire. Now comes the hard part. "That’s a result of another titanic battle, the end in Februa... (2019)
Decision to partner with Microsoft stunned PlayStation staff. Talks on cloud gaming pact have been underway since last year When Sony Corp. unv... (2019)
Rising ad dollars from Japan has bolstered the company’s total revenue Now, five years after Sasamoto joined, Japan is Twitter's second-largest ... (2019)
"This is a unique opportunity to speed up the deployment of 5G throughout the United States and bring much faster mobile broadband to rural America... (2019)
New storefront will take 12% of a game's revenues, rather than Steam's 30%. (2019)
Walmart's rollout of next-day delivery will begin in Phoenix, Las Vegas and Southern California this week, before reaching 75% of the country by th... (2019)
This post is all about network effects and critical mass. But it’s also about applying those concepts as important mental models in business, so I ... (2016)
Microsoft has a 7,000-square-foot space dedicated to prototyping the future. We got to see a number of demonstrations of future concepts of Windows... (2019)
This article has benefited greatly from the assistance of many individuals and companies. The author gives special thanks to Jan Rivkin, the coauth... (1996)
Which matters more: “moats” or innovation? When Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that “moats are lame” during the company’s earnings call last week, he ... (2018)
A look at ten businesses models reshaping the financial services arena. May 8, 2019The range of models is breathtaking, and, drawing from my rec... (2019)
This is a video about the most famous problem in Game Theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma. (2024)
In October 2018, Kmart's parent company, Sears Holdings, filed for bankruptcy. Kmart first filed for bankruptcy in 2002, making this its second tim... (2018)
Netflix has 137 million subscribers and a majority of them are international. But the streaming giant is still struggling to break into India, the ... (2018)
View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the-tragedy-of-the-commons-nicholas-amendolare... (2018)
Game Theory, Nash Equilibrium and ‘Socially Optimal Solutions’ (S.O.S.) (2018)
If you want to win, it's best to think crazy like a fox. Nobody knows this better than Kevin Zollman — a nationally recognized expert in game theor... (2018)
2nd of a 15 part series introducing the social dynamics of game theory found in the book Moral Calculations: Game Theory, Logic and Human Frailty. ... (2018)
1st of a 15 part series introducing the social dynamics of game theory found in the book Moral Calculations: Game Theory, Logic and Human Frailty. ... (2018)
The iterated prisoner's dilemma is just like the regular game except you play it multiple times with an opponent and add up the scores. But it can ... (2018)
The prisoners dilemma is a hypothetical game set up showing a situation where people won't want to work together even when it's beneficial to do so... (2018)
Would you like to play a game, Dr. Falken? Actually, this episode isn't really about games, or Matthew Broderick, or Thermonuclear War. But enough ... (2018)
It all started as a military exercise in Norway. We interviewed a sports expert about the truth behind "mind over matter"... (2018)
Elevate Yourself Published on Dec 16, 2015 Learn the fundamentals of passing a volleyball with details about an effective ready position, platf... (2018)
Elevate Yourself Published on Jan 28, 2016 Learn how to set passes that are off the net! These videos will teach the fundamentals of how to set ... (2018)
Elevate Yourself Published on Nov 9, 2015 Learn the fundamentals of how to set a volleyball by learning the proper stance, hand formation, and re... (2018)
Elevate Yourself Published on Jan 3, 2016 Learn how to generate top spin on the ball with solid contact. This video will teach you proper spiking... (2018)
Elevate Yourself Published on Jan 1, 2016 Learn a simple and effective arm swing technique that will maximize your power and control when spiki... (2018)
Elevate Yourself Published on Feb 3, 2016 This video is about how to spike with better timing in volleyball. Learn how to improve your spiking... (2018)
The Economist Published on Feb 8, 2018 The 2018 Winter Olympics will see athletes from a record-breaking 92 countries compete in Pyeongchang, S... (2018)
TED Published on Mar 26, 2009 With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. I... (2018)
Y Combinator Published on Mar 22, 2017 Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal and Palantir, discusses business strategy and monopoly theory in "Competi... (2018)
In a Wall Street Journal article about Google’s Secret ‘Project Bernanke,’ Jeff Horwitz and Keach Hagey quoted Google Chief Economist Hal Varian's ... (2023)
Babbage from Economist Radio on Spotify. This week a judge heard the first arguments in an antitrust case that could reshape the software ecosy... (2020)
Ben and James discuss Disney’s recent announcements on streaming and what it says about not just TV but strategy broadly in the Internet era. (2019)
Ben and James continue to discuss the differences between platforms and aggregators, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon,... (2019)
with Ryan Caldbeck, Jeff Jordan, and Sonal Chokshi (2019)
Stream a16z Podcast: Tesla and the Nature of Disruption by a16z from desktop or your mobile device (2018)
Stream a16z Podcast: What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement? by a16z from desktop or your mobile device (2018)
How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business - book by Rita Gunther McGrath, and Alex Gourlay Publication Date: June 04, 2013 Ar... (2019)
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How much can teachers earn on various teaching LMS platforms? Analysis of Udemy, Teachable, Kajabi, Podia, LinkedIn Learning, Lynda, Skillshare, P... (2019)