Another interesting question: to what extent do these globally dominant giants have (significant) optionality around their ability to leverage their networks, scale, and technology stacks to dominate entirely new and currently unforeseen markets?
For example, while it's yet to be determined whether META will kill TWTR (it's more nuanced t…
Another interesting question: to what extent do these globally dominant giants have (significant) optionality around their ability to leverage their networks, scale, and technology stacks to dominate entirely new and currently unforeseen markets?
For example, while it's yet to be determined whether META will kill TWTR (it's more nuanced than that, but I'm trying to keep it simple), META has a huge leg up by virtue of its existing networks and scale vs. that TWTR killer I'm incubating in my garage. AMZN, MSFT, and GOOG were likewise able to leverage the compute infrastructure that they had built to run their globally dominant online commerce, software, and search businesses to dominate the newly emerged cloud computing opportunity, while AAPL was able to leverage control over its closed hardware platform to create the world's largest and most lucrative services business.
Historically there has been significant attrition among globally dominant corporations. Is it different this time? Are we at a point where the networks, scale, and technology stacks of these giants makes their dominance - not just of current but also future markets - unassailable?
If true, this has wide ranging implications across many fields (economics, politics, etc.); to return to the mundane, maybe as investors we have finally reached the promised land of one decision stocks?
Another interesting question: to what extent do these globally dominant giants have (significant) optionality around their ability to leverage their networks, scale, and technology stacks to dominate entirely new and currently unforeseen markets?
For example, while it's yet to be determined whether META will kill TWTR (it's more nuanced than that, but I'm trying to keep it simple), META has a huge leg up by virtue of its existing networks and scale vs. that TWTR killer I'm incubating in my garage. AMZN, MSFT, and GOOG were likewise able to leverage the compute infrastructure that they had built to run their globally dominant online commerce, software, and search businesses to dominate the newly emerged cloud computing opportunity, while AAPL was able to leverage control over its closed hardware platform to create the world's largest and most lucrative services business.
Historically there has been significant attrition among globally dominant corporations. Is it different this time? Are we at a point where the networks, scale, and technology stacks of these giants makes their dominance - not just of current but also future markets - unassailable?
If true, this has wide ranging implications across many fields (economics, politics, etc.); to return to the mundane, maybe as investors we have finally reached the promised land of one decision stocks?