Nataraj Sindam

A series of blog posts documenting ideas, experiments & products to learn generative AI.

WeWork’s failure is not an indication that every other tech unicorn is overvalued. There are exciting companies such as Stripe and Airbnb which will get their money’s worth in due course.

At the height of the negative press around WeWork, I wrote about the product-market fit and the positive aspects of the we-work-as-a-business.

The more interesting question that comes now is, what is a better business model for coworking startups?

Media companies are attention merchants. They compete to gain access to consumers’ leisure time. Netflix spent US$16 billion in 2019 on producing and acquiring new content. Amazon pursued its original journey with US$6 billion. Quiby, a yet-to-launch streaming service raised a billion dollars to create a catalogue for Millennials.

There is an incredible amount of spending from both the legacy media companies and streaming startups to attract the consumer to their streaming… Show more

Media companies are attention merchants. They compete to gain access to consumers’ leisure time. Netflix spent US$16 billion in 2019 on producing and acquiring new content. Amazon pursued its original journey with US$6 billion. Quiby, a yet-to-launch streaming service raised a billion dollars to create a catalogue for Millennials.

There is an incredible amount of spending from both the legacy media companies and streaming startups to attract the consumer to their streaming services.

This leads to the important question of why this extravagant spending and how does it make sense? Show less

The point of making public predictions is not to be correct, but to at some point in future to ponder over the reasons for incorrect interpretation of the present.
And most importantly it's a fun endeavor.

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Moats in general, are viewed as a great defense for a company, protecting it from traditional market competition and enabling it to deliver long-term shareholder value. And Tesla’s supercharger network is considered as a great moat for the company by its investors. But if rapid pace of innovation can beat all kinds of defenses, the question is if there is a moat that can withstand rapid innovation cycles.
Read more at https://hackernoon.com/mother-of-all-moats-eae51faa6d95