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Between the end of the 1800s and until the 1950-60s, Bell Labs played a crucial role in developing the most critical innovations (from scaling the phone business to the first transistors), it revolutionized various industries. It opened the way to information theory and microprocessors. Therefore, giving birth to Silicon Valley.

Trader Joe's is an American chain of grocery stores, founded by Joe Coulombe, in Pasadena, in 1967. Trader Joe's evolved from a first small chain called Pronto Markets, which eventually led to Trader Joe's, the grocery store chain guaranteeing quality and low prices by leveraging intensive buying and virtual distribution and by targeting what Joe Coulombe called the overeducated, and underpaid, wh...

Initially an outsider, SpaceX has become the dominant player in the space industry. Started in 2002, by Elon Musk, after the exit from PayPal, SpaceX has changed the whole space industry, with its reusable rockets, and its ability to bring iterative design, in a hardware-heavy industry.

This is a recap of the WeWork story. The full episode is here . Or here: https://fourweekmba.com/wework-scandal/ https://fourweekmba.com/what-happened-to-wework/

WeWork was one of the most valuable startups in the 2010s, as it grew to become a multi-billion dollar company by 2015. It claimed it run a business model called space-as-a-service and it had managed to secure billions of dollars in investments from venture capital, mutual funds, and the most prominent tech investment funds until it almost went bankrupt as it tried to IPO in 2019.

Ethereum was launched in 2015 with its cryptocurrency, Ether, as an open-source, blockchain-based, decentralized platform software. Smart contracts are enabled, and Distributed Applications (dApps) get built without downtime or third-party disturbance. It also helps developers build and publish applications as it is also a programming language running on a blockchain.

PayPal was born as the merger of two early Internet startups, Confinity (founded by Max Levchin and Peter Thiel) and X.com (founded by Elon Musk). Both companies stumbled on a commercial killer feature (enabling Internet payments via email) and ended up being extremely useful on a nascent auction platform: eBay. From the merger of these companies, PayPal was born. And it wrote the Internet busines...

In this episode, we explore the evolution of the Internet, from the perspective of AOL, and the rise of the first big tech giants. And how new players, like search engines, took over at the end of Web 1.0.

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What drove your interest in Chinese tech giants in the first place? Can you tell us a bit more about the current scenario for China’s tech giants? What other Chinese tech companies are your following? Is Facebook TikTok’s copy enough as a counterattack? Where are Chinese tech companies investing right now? China is also investing a lot in India, right? Is there any template China is using to inves...

How did you get to research one-person one-million businesses? What are some of the factors that really push people to start their own solo business in the first place? What are the primary business models of solo businesses? But tell me your experiences as well, also on your side. What do you think? How do you build the branding for a solo business if you have very few financial resources? What d...

What drove you to focus on a blockchain? What are the key elements of the Enterprise Blockchain? Blockchain in a nutshell A crash course in Enterprise Blockchain How do you need to change the mindset in a blockchain-driven business world? Does the blockchain make centralized platforms irrelevant? Or is it an evolution of them? What is a Minimum Viable Ecosystem (MVE) and how to kick it off? How do...

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How do you understand what people really want? How do you uncover unsaid truths? How do you build an effective product that people want? The answer to all these questions is all about revealed preferences.

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Amazon profitability 1994-2018 Amazon Business Model What Is the Receivables Turnover Ratio? How Amazon Receivables Management Helps Its Explosive Growth Amazon Case Study: Why from Product to Subscription You Need to “Swallow the Fish” What Is Cash Conversion Cycle? Amazon Cash Machine Business Model Explained Why Is AWS so Important for Amazon Future Business Growth? Amazon Flywheel: Amazon Virt...

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