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Intuitive Doesn't Give Away the Razor. It Sells the Blade a Chip Won't Let You Refuse.
Intuitive Surgical
Business Model8 min
Thermo Fisher Sells Pipettes. Its Real Business Is Renting Out the Lab.
Thermo Fisher
Adjacency Expansion8 min
Theranos Wasn't a Dream That Failed. It Was a Lie That Worked for a Decade.
Theranos
Decision Forks8 min
Purdue Didn't Slip Through the Cracks. The Government Helped Build the Door.
Purdue Pharma
The Fall8 min
23andMe Sold Spit Kits to Buy a Drug Company. The Drug Company Never Arrived.
23andMe
Business Model8 min
Bayer Paid $63 Billion for a Lawsuit It Could Read in Advance
Bayer
Decision Forks8 min
Warner Bros. Discovery Renamed Its Streaming Service Three Times. The Real Story Was the $41.5 Billion It Inherited.
Warner Bros Discovery
Adjacency Expansion8 min
Paramount Didn't Lose the Streaming War. It Lost an Argument With Arithmetic.
Paramount
Decision Forks7 min
Comcast Isn't a Media Company. It's a Broadband Toll Booth Bankrolling One.
Comcast
Business Model8 min
AT&T Spent $100 Billion to Become a Media Company. It Lasted Four Years.
AT&T
Adjacency Expansion8 min
Verizon Won the Network 35 Times Running. Then It Tried to Be Google.
Verizon
Business Model8 min
Fox Didn't Choose to Be a Live-Only Network. The FCC Chose for It.
Fox
Business Model8 min
The New York Times Didn't Organically Cross 10 Million Subscribers. It Bought the Last Mile.
New York Times
Decision Forks8 min
Universal Music's Real Asset Isn't the Next Hit. It's the Songs Nobody Notices It Owns.
Universal Music
Business Model8 min
Live Nation Built a Loop Antitrust Law Couldn't Pry Open. It Took Two Decrees and a Jury to Try.
Live Nation
Cross-Subsidy8 min
Quibi Raised $1.75 Billion Before It Had a Single Subscriber. That Was the Bug, Not the Bridge.
Quibi
Decision Forks7 min
Vice Was Worth $5.7 Billion. It Sold for $350 Million — and Even That Was Paid in IOUs.
Vice Media
Decision Forks8 min
BuzzFeed Wasn't a Media Company. It Was a Spread Trade on Someone Else's Traffic.
BuzzFeed
Business Model8 min
Hermès Killed the Birkin Waitlist in 2010. The Scarcity Got Worse on Purpose.
Hermes
Pricing8 min
Kering Looks Like a Luxury Portfolio. It's a Leveraged Bet on One House's Mood Swings.
Kering (Gucci)
Pricing7 min
Richemont Isn't a Watch-and-Jewelry Empire. It's Two Jewelers Carrying a Watch Habit.
Richemont
Moat Anatomy8 min
Chanel Doubled the Price of a Handbag in a Decade. Inflation Explains Almost None of It.
Chanel
Pricing8 min
Estée Lauder Didn't Bet on China. It Bet on a Loophole — and Stayed Quiet When Beijing Closed It.
Estee Lauder
Decision Forks8 min
L'Oréal Doesn't Buy Brands. It Buys Empty Rungs on a Ladder It Already Built.
L'Oreal
Adjacency Expansion8 min
Marriott Owns Almost None of Its Hotels. Then It Was Forced to Buy One for $500 Million.
Marriott
Business Model8 min
Hilton Owns Almost No Hotels. It Sells Owners the One Thing They Can't Get Anywhere Else.
Hilton
Business Model8 min
United Doesn't Sell Flights. It Sells Miles to a Bank — and Flies You as a Side Effect.
United Airlines
Cross-Subsidy8 min
Emirates Didn't Find a Hub. It Built One Where the World Has to Change Planes.
Emirates
Decision Forks8 min
FedEx Didn't Win on a Bright Idea. It Won When Washington Let It Fly Bigger Planes.
FedEx
Vertical Integration7 min
UPS Just Fired Its Biggest Customer. That's the Whole Strategy.
UPS
Vertical Integration8 min
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