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Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover
Musk offered to purchase the company for $54.20 a share, though he did not specify how he planned to pay for it. (2022)
How Twitter Became Ubiquitous in Japan - Bloomberg (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)
The Square Strategy Teardown - CB Insights Research
How The Point-Of-Sale Fintech Insurgent Is Quietly Turning Itself Into A Full-Service Bank Payments startup Square is moving beyond the registe... (2019)
CB Insights report 2019 - WeWork’s $47 Billion Dream
The Lavishly Funded Startup That Could Disrupt Commercial Real Estate With $6.5B in equity funding, WeWork is expanding aggressively at home and... (2019)
Cornerstone - Acquisition of Grovo | Business Wire
Cornerstone announces the acquisition of Grovo, the global leader in micro-learning content. (2019)
Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning and Degreed Partner on a Learning Experience
BOSTON, MA – March 14, 2019 – Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning and Degreed today announced a partnership to help organizations addres... (2019)
Blitzscaling: The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly
In defense of "blitzscaling," Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy. Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh explain how business and start-ups can grow qui... (2019)
Tim O'Reilly's argument against Reid Hoffman's "Blitzscaling" — Quartz
Blitzscaling promises to teach techniques that are “the lightning fast path to building massively valuable companies.” But it's not a recipe for su... (2019)
Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger - The New York Times
Facebook’s chief executive has asserted control over its sprawling divisions and mandated the social network’s messaging services be knitted together. (2019)
The Business Consulting Industry Is Booming, and It's About to Be Disrupted (2017) - Inc
Every industry and business will be disrupted by technology trends. Management consulting is next. (2017)
Ford Buying San Francisco-Area e-Scooter Startup Spin - The New York Times
Ford Motor Co said Thursday it will join the mushrooming micro-mobility movement with the acquisition of 2-year-old Spin, an electric scooter renta... (2018)
IBM and Maersk Struggle to Sign Partners to Shipping Blockchain - CoinDesk
Since Maersk and IBM launched TradeLens 10 months ago, only one other carrier has joined the network. As those involved admit, that's not enough. (2018)
Goodbye HipChat: Slack and Atlassian Team Up on Chat Software - Bloomberg
Stewart Butterfield’s startup will subsume Atlassian’s corporate chat tools to take on Microsoft. (2018)
The Legend of Nintendo - Bloomberg
With the Switch, the 130-year-old gaming giant has once again turned reports of its demise into Nintendo Mania. (2018)
Comcast Offers $65 Billion for 21st Century Fox, Challenging Disney - The New York Times
The cable giant’s bid for the bulk of Fox’s businesses sets up a fight with Disney, which has already struck a $52.4 billion deal for Rupert Murdoc... (2018)
It’s official: Ikea is no longer just a furniture company
Ikea is partnering with Adidas, Lego, and Sonos to sell you <em>everything</em>. (2018)
Apple Is Working With Hertz to Manage Its Self-Driving Car Fleet - Bloomberg
Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial ... (2018)
How Not to Negotiate a $6.1 Billion Deal - Bloomberg
The Xerox-Fujifilm formula: 1. Tell CEO he’s fired. 2. Have him arrange sale of company. 3. Hope Carl Icahn doesn’t find out. (2018)
Headphones Maker Monster Is Quietly Planning A $300 Million ICO - CoinDesk
A longstanding company in the consumer products business wants to fund its own distribution service with a giant ICO, hoping to lure peers to join it. (2018)
(long report) Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting
“Strategy” did not exist as a concept at most companies in America until management consultants first started billing for it. (2018)
$363 Million: Robinhood Raises Big to Build 'Largest Crypto Platform' - CoinDesk
Stock trading app Robinhood has announced a $363 million series D funding round and plans to expand its crypto trading service across the U.S. (2018)
JP Morgan's New DLT Lead: We're Not Done With Blockchain Innovation - CoinDesk
Christine Moy, Amber Baldet's successor at JPMorgan, shares her thoughts on the future of enterprise DLT and the role of public blockchain networks. (2018)
Walmart Wants to Apply Blockchain to Other Products Beyond Pork - CoinDesk
Trying to make pork products in China safer was just the first step of Walmart’s global plans for blockchain... (2016)
Microsoft Brings Blockchain to Azure Testing Environment - CoinDesk
Microsoft is now making its Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) offering available to all users of its Azure testing environment. (2016)
Inside Microsoft’s Quest To Turn Minecraft Content Into A Business - Fast Company
Microsoft has paid out $7 million to Minecraft content makers since last June. But it’s just beginning to build out its marketplace... (2018)
Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel - Bloomberg
Apple Inc. is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel Corp., according to people... (2018)
Amazon Takes Fresh Stab at $16 Billion Housekeeping Industry - Bloomberg
Three years ago, Amazon.com Inc. launched a marketplace to connect its customers with handymen, landscapers and housekeepers in their neighborhoods... (2018)
How Lego Became The Apple Of Toys
After a decade-long slump, Lego has rebuilt itself into a global juggernaut. An exclusive look inside the company’s top-secret Future Lab. (2015)
Uber Agrees on Southeast Asian Sale to Grab - Bloomberg
Uber Technologies Inc. has reached an agreement to sell its Southeast Asian ride-hailing business to rival Grab and could announce the deal as earl... (2018)
VW Just Gave Tesla a $25 Billion Battery Shock
Volkswagen AG secured 20 billion euros ($25 billion) in battery supplies to underpin an aggressive push into electric cars in the coming years, ram... (2018)
What The Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything
This is a video about the most famous problem in Game Theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma. (2024)
A Plan Is Not a Strategy
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)
Debate 101 with Harvard’s former debate coach Bo Seo
Bo Seo, a two-time debate world champion, gives three tips for constructing the perfect argument. (2023)
How Nvidia Grew From Gaming To A.I. Giant, Now Powering ChatGPT
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)
3 game theory tactics, explained
How to maximize wins and minimize losses, explained by four experts on game theory. (2023)
How to Outthink Your Competition -- with a Lesson from Sports | Rasmus Ankersen | TED
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)
Microsoft Build 2019 Keynote in under 14 minutes - Engadget
Engadget Published on May 6, 2019 (2019)
Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO, Uber - interview 2018 - Stanford
“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)
Distribution and Sales Channels - a16z
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)
The API Economy - a16z
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)
The World Through an API - a16z
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 - 9 Steps to Creating a Successful Business Model - Startup Tips The Business Model Canvas, is a strategic management and... (2018)
Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel | Stanford "How to Start a Startup"
Y Combinator Published on Mar 22, 2017 Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal and Palantir, discusses business strategy and monopoly theory in "Competi... (2018)
Amazon, Jeff Bezos and the book “Good to Great” author Jim Collins - podcast Recode Decode - Vox
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)
Episode 170 — A Perfect Meal | Exponent
Ben and James discuss the Zoom and Slack IPOs in the context of Microsoft’s current success and long-term challenges. (2019)
a16z Podcast: The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups – 2017 - Andreessen Horowitz
A lot of machine learning startups initially feel a bit of “impostor syndrome” around competing with big companies, because (the argument goes), th... (2017)
Family-Friendly Disney | Exponent podcast
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)
a16z Podcast: How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree? – 2019 - Andreessen Horowitz
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)
Platforms Versus Aggregators | Exponent podcast - Episode 152
Ben and James continue to discuss the differences between platforms and aggregators, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon,... (2019)
The API Economy — The Why, What, and How – a16z Podcast
"APIs (application programming interfaces), observe the guests in this episode of the a16z Podcast, can be described as everything from Lego buildi... (2018)
Creating a Category, from Pricing to Positioning – a16z Podcast
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)
a16z Podcast: Adjusting to Trade… and Innovation – Andreessen Horowitz
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)
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't - by James C. Collins
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)
The End of Competitive Advantage (book) - Rita Gunther McGrath - Harvard Business Review
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)