A thread on the snippets (paragraphs & quotes) from the book ‘Modern Monopolies: What it Takes to Dominate the 21st-Century Economy’
This thread will be updated as I read further & further.
1/ The burning platform.
2/ Why did Nokia fail?
3/ ‘Sixty years ago, The average lifespan of a company in the S&P 500 was over 50 years. Today it’s less than 15. This upheaval creates tremendous peril for existing businesses, but it also creates enormous opportunities.”
4/ ‘What is the platform business? A business that connects two or more mutually dependent groups in a way that benefits all sides.
Think of how eBay connected buyers and sellers or how iOS and android connected consumers & developers.’
5/ Why did RIM (parent company of BlackBerry) die?
6/ Android enters.
7/ The original Platform.
8/ The risks and the opportunities.
9/ ‘Just about every startup these days claim that it’s building a platform. As a tactic to get funding or attention, this trick seems to meet with relative success. But very few of these businesses actually understand the model they are trying to emulate.’
10/ Not really a ‘Platform’
11/ Why did GitHub succeed?
12/ Platform types.
13/ Difference b/w an Uber & an Airbnb
14/ Encyclopaedia Industry.
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Why your nearby restaurant has a sweet-sour relationship with Zomato/Swiggy?
A mini Thread 🧵👇
1/ Aggregator Economics
Aggregators are cash-guzzling businesses
Although the restaurant volumes go up, increasingly these companies are getting stricter with respect to their cash flows leaving no cut for the restaurant owners
With the listing, this will continue to grow.
2/ Customer Data Masking
Aggregators don't share any user data with the owners leaving them clueless about their customer base, their demographics & trends.
Owners feel that they are losing their brand value & their food is getting commoditized.
With so much focus around the world wrt sustainability, one way to differentiate between speciality chemical companies is their focus on green chemistry.
The customers would soon demand this of everyone.
Source: Clean Science & Tech RHP.
Indian Speciality chemicals are expected to grow at over double digits till 2025.
Agrochemical & Fertilizer & Pharma API contribute 55%+ of the total speciality chemical space in India.