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324 analyses · Business Model
Unity Tried to Charge a Toll on Roads It Already Sold. It Never Collected a Cent.
Unity
Alibaba's Real Money Machine Is an Ad Network Wearing a Mall Costume
Alibaba
Amazon Raised Prime's Price 76% and Almost Nobody Left. Here's the Trick.
Amazon
Amazon's Ad Business Isn't a Hidden Third Engine. It's a Toll on the Sellers It Already Taxes.
Amazon
Reddit Sells Ads. The AI Story Is Worth More Than the AI Money.
Reddit
Azure Was Built Under Ballmer. Nadella's Genius Was Wiring It Into Everything.
Microsoft
Oracle's Audit Isn't a Compliance Check. It's a Sales Call With Legal Cover.
Oracle
Salesforce Didn't Invent SaaS. It Hired Actors to Protest a Funeral It Staged for the Old Way.
Salesforce
Alexa Was a Razor Built to Sell Blades. Nobody Ever Bought the Blades.
Amazon Alexa / Echo
Broadcom Didn't Buy VMware to Grow It. It Bought a Captive Audience.
Broadcom-VMware
Pepsi Won the Taste Test and Still Lost the War. The Reason Is the Whole Strategy.
Coke vs Pepsi
Disney+ Owns the Better Vault. Netflix Built the Better Tollbooth.
Netflix vs Disney+
BYD Didn't Beat Tesla in EVs in 2024. It Did Something Quieter and Worse.
Tesla vs BYD
Tesla Started the EV Price War. It Just Forgot Who Bleeds First.
The EV Price War
Netflix Didn't Win the Streaming Wars on Content. It Won on Arithmetic.
The Streaming Wars
Apple Hasn't Raised the iPhone's Price Since 2017. It Doesn't Need To.
Apple
The Bookstore Quietly Became an Ad Company and a Cloud Company. You Still Think It Sells Books.
Amazon
Google Isn't a Search Company. It's an Attention Auction With a Distribution Problem.
Alphabet (Google)
IKEA Didn't Design Its Low Prices. It Backed Into Them, Then Wrote the Philosophy Later.
IKEA
Lego Didn't Save Itself by Selling Legoland. It Saved Itself by Fixing the Brick Factory.
Lego
Adobe Didn't Sell Software Anymore. It Started Renting the Exit.
Adobe
Alibaba's Flywheel Spun on Coercion. Then the Regulators Drained It.
Alibaba
TikTok's Real Moat Isn't the Algorithm. It's What Every Other ByteDance App Inherits the Day It Launches.
ByteDance / TikTok
Shopify's Flywheel Doesn't Spin on Delight. It Spins on the Swipe.
Shopify
Atlassian's "No Sales Team" Story Hides How It Really Makes Money
Atlassian
DoorDash Drew Its Own Flywheel. The Diagram Forgot to Mention the $5.3 Billion It Took to Spin.
DoorDash
Lyft Didn't Kill Surge Pricing. It Made a Bet That Cheaper Rides Print Money.
Lyft
EA Stopped Selling You a Game. The $70 Box Is Now a Door, Not a Destination.
Electronic Arts
Dollar General Doesn't Make Money on the Cheap Stuff. The Cheap Stuff Is the Bait.
Dollar General
CVS Calls Itself a Health Company. It's a PBM Carrying Two Expensive Passengers.
CVS Health