christopherwxyz

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by christopherwxyz 5y ago
Only if you buy one at a time. Trying buying in bulk.
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by christopherwxyz 5y ago
Any fixed cost business will inherently have large sunk costs and will not experience net profits until you've worked your way down the cost curve. Content businesses have marginal costs that approach zero as a function of time -- of c
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by christopherwxyz 6y ago
I think the hope is that Visa would process these transactions in bulk, not individually.
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by christopherwxyz 6y ago
Buffett only invests in businesses he likes or could come to like. The best example recently is his divesting of airlines as he realized he no longer loved the business.
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by christopherwxyz 6y ago
And Rust
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by christopherwxyz 6y ago
Your example is faulty. No one pays you to cut your own lawn. People pay Apple to listen to Apple Music. People pay Apple to watch TV+. Other competitors have to pay 30% for every customer before they can even compete with their own product
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by christopherwxyz 6y ago
Apple doesn’t charge itself a 30% fee when it competes with other developers for the same paying users.
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by christopherwxyz 6y ago
Stripe
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by christopherwxyz 6y ago
Why spend $4.5 billion to buy a company instead of spending $4.5 billion on your own to be competitive? The only answer is that Uber is attempting to monopolize the food delivery market.
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by christopherwxyz 7y ago
And Shopify. It’s probably #2 behind Amazon, if I had to guess. Their one-stop deploy a drop ship website is far too convenient.
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by christopherwxyz 8y ago
Mic went out of business last year, as well. Seems like an industry thing.
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by christopherwxyz 8y ago
There's a pretty strong, profitable correlation between high content consumption and high subscriber retention. On top of that, the net promoter score would be higher. Netflix wants to maximize lifetime value. Why optimize for less scr
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by christopherwxyz 8y ago
If one state didn't offer a tax break, then another would and win the business. There are 50 states, and most of them compete for businesses with tax incentives fairly competitively.
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by christopherwxyz 8y ago
But that is exactly my point: bluetooth is a better alternative to the headphone jack. In addition, fewer people use the headphone jack than people did one year ago.
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by christopherwxyz 8y ago
CD drives worked well for 30 years. Why not bring them back to all our modern devices, too?
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by christopherwxyz 8y ago
Hot dog or not hot dog?
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