The Four

infringement, and governmental interference. Those characteristics are inconsistent with the Western values that underpin aspira ...

As for the accelerant factor, no doubt working for Alibaba carries considerable value in China and in other parts of the develop ...

(notably the giant battery factory outside Reno)—not to mention its Edison-like, visionary leader—suggest Tesla has the potentia ...

time machines—visiting one is a trip to 1985. These entrenched third- party dealer networks, the limited ability to modify or en ...

Yahoo! Finance. https://finance.yahoo.com/ Tesla owners describe their purchase decisions in messianic terms and value the compa ...

automobiles and hold the potential for early market leadership in other transport markets, in alternative power generation, and ...

They put me in a Mercedes van, drive me half a kilometer to a helipad. I get in a lawnmower with a propeller, piloted by a guy w ...

mile) system for global business—that is, taking the “blood” of commerce to the “organs” of business, globally. Getting atoms (s ...

counsel that sought to reallocate the responsibilities of Kalanick, the board initially didn’t fire Kalanick; instead he announc ...

maintains that it doesn’t run a car service at all, but rather it provides an app that allows drivers to share their cars for a ...

Walmart parking lots, and you have a very interesting market advantage.^35 In late 2016 Walmart acquired Jet.com for $3 billion, ...

Visual Studio are ubiquitous. If it hadn’t so badly failed with its Windows Phone, Microsoft would most likely already be the Fi ...

LinkedIn Corporate Communications Team. “LinkedIn Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Results.” LinkedIn. LinkedIn, by t ...

addressable market for LinkedIn is greater than for all the B2C social platforms.) The trade-off facing LinkedIn, however, is th ...

While they both are global and enjoy access to cheap capital, their product has substantially different variance. NYU Stern Prof ...

surpass Uber’s value by the end of 2018, and Uber will register the mother of all write-downs as word spreads regarding their la ...

Verizon/AT&T/Comcast/Time Warner This book assumes you are online. And who almost certainly owns the line you are on? One of ...

down—just as the transistor did in 1947, and the integrated circuit in Elsewhere, at some kitchen table or a booth at Starbucks ...

Chapter 10 The Four and You THE DOMINANCE OF THE FOUR has an outsized effect on the competitive landscape and the lives of consu ...

more predators. The good news: the big fish in the big pond has a phat life. The Four Horsemen demonstrate this on a mega-scale. ...