Aggregators and demand capture

Business models

Owning the demand side and commoditising supply. The defining work is Ben Thompson's Stratechery essays on aggregation theory, which have never been collected into a book; these are the closest book-length treatments.

7 books · 2 people behind it

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  1. The Everything StoreBrad Stone, 2013
  2. The Master SwitchTim Wu, 2010
  3. The Content TrapBharat Anand, 2016

The people behind it 2

Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.

Journalists 2

BS
Brad Stone1 book here
CA
Chris Anderson1 book here

Books 7

The Master Switch
T1 The Master Switch
Tim Wu · 2010 · The cycle by which open information industries close into monopolies.
Open Library
Andrew Chen
The Everything Store
T1 The Everything Store
Brad Stone · 2013 · Amazon's flywheel: scale economics shared back as lower prices.
Open Library
Andrew WilkinsonMohnish PabraiDavid CancelDoug McMillonDrew HoustonMatt MullenwegPatrick O'ShaughnessyTracy DiNunzio
The Long Tail
T2 The Long Tail
Chris Anderson · 2006 · Why unlimited shelf space moves demand into the tail
Open Library
Jim CollinsEv WilliamsJack MaReed Hastings
The Curse of the Mogul
T2 The Curse of the Mogul
Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave · 2009 · Media conglomerates measured against actual returns on capital.
Open Library
Keith Rabois
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
T2 Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
Duncan Clark · 2016 · A marketplace that takes advertising rather than transaction fees.
Open Library
Patrick Collison
The Content Trap
T2 The Content Trap
Bharat Anand · 2016 · Connections, not content, are where media profits sit.
Open Library
Unlocking the Customer Value Chain
T2 Unlocking the Customer Value Chain
Thales S. Teixeira, Greg Piechota · 2019 · Decoupling: how entrants steal the profitable step in a customer's chain.
Open Library