Many ways to win Why do people flock to something? What creates an edge, an advantage, a moat? How do things win, or at least survive, in a highly competitive landscape? Organisms, people, products, organizations, networks. All are able to overcome competitors and accumulate en…↗

That work will change around AI is inevitable, but the way work changes is not. I think firms with a lack of imagination will see AI as an opportunity to cut people, but firms with the vision to expand human roles & make them better with AI will thrive. …↗

how is 7 powers changing in the age of AI? - counterpositioning - weakens - scale economics - weakens - switching - gone - network economies - weakens - process power - strengthens - branding - strengthens - cornered resource - strengthens↗

Today, we're unveiling the all-new acquired.fm. It's been 8 months in the works, hand-crafted to represent what Acquired has become today. Enjoy :)↗

The 10 Most Popular Questions Answered by The Startup Archive in August The thread below lists the top 10 answers sorted by Twitter views #1 Peter Thiel: Is it better to target a small market or a large one? x.com/mikemcg0/statu…↗

ChatGPT’s ‘code interpreter’ is kinda wild. Watch it segment music markets based on a spreadsheet and come up with business strategies for each segment!↗

Every single software company is gonna relearn how to be best friends with McKinsey in the next couple years↗

What do Airbnb, Facebook, Spotify, Hubspot, and Slack all have in common? They all have a North Star Metric that influences their long-term growth. This means the one metric that all business units focus on. Here's the breakdown 🧵↗

What's an interesting cash flowing public company that could be supercharged if I could get a hold of it and help revamp its technology and go to market?↗

What companies have leveraged community as a large growth lever?↗

Following Charlie Munger's advice to always invert, here are 10 things not to do as a CEO: - Run out of money - Fail to learn / grow - Lose your team / break the culture - Not understand capital allocation - Believe you are the sole reason for your company's success /1↗

Great rundown of how successful startups acquired their first 1000 users: lennyrachitsky.com/p/how-the-bigg… But every business, no matter how analog, should ask themselves these questions:↗

1/ "We have to have a business with some inherent characteristics that give it a durable competitive advantage." C. Munger "The key to investing is ... determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage." W. Buffett↗

Consider two frameworks: The Peter Thiel approach + Keith Rabois approach Thiel - pick a niche they can monopolize and expand outwards from there Rabois - go “horizontal” - find trillion dollar markets + build full-stack, vertically integrated solutions. Go big or go home.↗