Nuclear weapons and arms control
Luxury Clothing and Fashion Business
Geopolitical advisory is a niche but crucial sector where experts provide insights and counsel to...
Incumbents vs. Startups: Disruptive innovation at big companies
Apple - global supply chain, manufacturing
Accounting, Consulting, Auditing firms - the big four: EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PWC
Outsourcing, Near-shoring - Globalization and Supply Chains, Logistics and global shipping
Google - legal issues
ATT: Apple’s App Tracking Transparency - Data and Social Media, Facebook: Privacy, Security
Moneyball, Data, Statistics and the Business of Sports - talent acquisition
Fintech and software as a service (SaaS) business models
Clones, copyworks - copying UX, features and designs from competitors, TikTok, snapchat, instagra...
Community and Memberships - tips, design suggestions
Acqihire - Team Building (for startups) - using mergers and acquisitions to grow your team
Amazon Prime - subscription business model
Second Order Thinking - Decision Making
Marketing Strategy
The end of a dramatic weekend in tech is that OpenAI has split and Microsoft is partnered with one and has hired the other; this is the ultimate fa... (2023)
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The commercial logic for splitting up the big four is only getting stronger. EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PWC | Business (2023)
Supply chains are neither global nor local. They are both | Business (2023)
The App Tracking Transparency recession. Mobile marketing and advertising, freemium monetization strategy, and marketing science. Mobile Dev Memo. (2023)
The advertising has shifted from a Google-Facebook duopoly to one where Amazon and potentially Apple are major forces. (2022)
Tech is increasingly divorced from the real economy thanks to the COVID hangover and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (2023)
Booking.com expanded the reach of its tours and activities offerings in Asia by entering into a long-term strategic partnership with Klook. (2022)
Meta deserves a bit of a discount off of its recent highs, but a number of myths about its business have caused the market to over-react. (2022)
Learn what you should know about top LMS license models, so you can choose a model that best meets your organization's needs. (2022)
Today, the majority of SaaS company revenue comes from subscription fees. With fintech products and services, the future may look very different. (2020)
Nvidia is in the valley in terms of gaming, the data center, and the omniverse; if it makes it to future heights its margins will be well-earned. (2022)
The $5 billion football club is amidst a high-risk transformation. Its strategy reveals the tricky economics of running a sports franchise and the ... (2022)
Advice from a16z experts on figuring out whether an acquihire makes sense and, if so, how to successfully pull it off — from due diligence to deal ... (2022)
The Microsoft and Stripe developer keynotes were both examples of the rise of Thin Platforms —- “Of course I am covering the Build and Stripe... (2022)
Amazon’s new Buy With Prime announced the arrival of Amazon Logistics as a Service, and is a big red flag for Shopify. (2022)
Musk offered to purchase the company for $54.20 a share, though he did not specify how he planned to pay for it. (2022)
Shopify should build an advertising business to complement Shop Pay and the Shopify Fulfillment Network (2022)
Electric and autonomy are rolling through the car industry, changing everything about it. But though they transform gasoline and car accidents, the... (2022)
Second Order Thinking is a critical practice for making effective policy, business and personal decisions. Many of our self-created problems as a s... (2018)
A hostile takeover should provide some clues | Business (2021)
Instagram is offering massive sums of money to creators to post videos on its TikTok competitor Reels. Some creators are being offered as much s $3... (2021)
Evernote has been plagued by a series of managerial missteps and failed product launches. The company’s future is far from certain. (2019)
Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to become a major player in an Internet 3.0 world, where politics matter more than economics. (2021)
On the business, strategy, and impact of technology. While Salmon’s question was driven by the news that AT&T would spin out WarnerMedia and mer... (2021)
We've had a few questions about our recent license change to Elasticsearch and Kibana. I believe in the core values of the Open Source Community... (2021)
Former Atlassian President Jay Simons shares the go-to-market and product strategies behind their success. (2021)
Bill Gurley on the “Free” Business Model | Above the Crowd | By Bill Gurley (2009)
When assessing a social app’s potential, what does “good” look like, anyway? The most important metrics—and benchmarks to aspire to—according to th... (2020)
From Wall Streeters to members of the media, it is not uncommon to hear people wax eloquent about Facebook’s high-profile acquisition of Instagram ... (2019)
This is a video about the most famous problem in Game Theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma. (2024)
A comprehensive plan—with goals, initiatives, and budgets–is comforting. But starting with a plan is a terrible way to make strategy. Roger Martin,... (2023)
Bo Seo, a two-time debate world champion, gives three tips for constructing the perfect argument. (2023)
Thirty years ago, Taiwan immigrant Jensen Huang founded Nvidia with the dream of revolutionizing PCs and gaming with 3D graphics. In 1999, after la... (2023)
How to maximize wins and minimize losses, explained by four experts on game theory. (2023)
Does success come from luck or skill, and how do you tell the difference? One way to find an answer: think like a pro gambler does, says football e... (2022)
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“People often optimize for the role or for the company. The first thing I optimize for is who I will work with. Don’t bet on companies, bet on peop... (2018)
a16z Published on Mar 2, 2018 What is a sales channel? It’s a route to market for a product or set of products, from a website to a sophisticat... (2018)
a16z Published on Nov 30, 2017 The API or application programming interface is becoming the interface for business. In much the same way that s... (2018)
a16z Published on Mar 9, 2018 As the API or "application programming interface" becomes the primary interface for business (in much the same wa... (2018)
The Business Model Canvas - 9 Steps to Creating a Successful Business Model - Startup Tips The Business Model Canvas, is a strategic management and... (2018)
Y Combinator Published on Mar 22, 2017 Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal and Palantir, discusses business strategy and monopoly theory in "Competi... (2018)
When Amazon was in trouble back in 2001, Jeff Bezos called professor and Good to Great author Jim Collins — and became his best student ever. (2019)
Ben and James discuss the Zoom and Slack IPOs in the context of Microsoft’s current success and long-term challenges. (2019)
A lot of machine learning startups initially feel a bit of “impostor syndrome” around competing with big companies, because (the argument goes), th... (2017)
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)
What does Apple’s recent event — in which a range of new services was announced, from Apple News Plus to Apple TV Plus to the Apple card — mean for... (2019)
Ben and James continue to discuss the differences between platforms and aggregators, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon,... (2019)
The lessons of blitzscaling to achieve market dominance are counterintuitive. The strategy requires a shift from the traditional thinking of growth... (2018)
"APIs (application programming interfaces), observe the guests in this episode of the a16z Podcast, can be described as everything from Lego buildi... (2018)
The purpose of category creation, argue the guests in this episode of the podcast, isn’t just about making a dent in the way companies work and cha... (2018)
Beyond the overly simplistic framing of trade as “good” or “bad” — by politicians, by Econ 101 — why is the topic of trade (or rather, economies an... (2017)
To find the keys to greatness, Collins's 21-person research team read and coded 6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transc... (2019)
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)