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Is It a Gross Margin?
An eighty five per cent margin is amazing. If you run a business where your costs are fixed to the type of content or sophor or whatever you create, then your audience scales completely independent of that. This was the whole thesis of technology and software and venture capital up until e people start realizing they can also build tech businesses with lower gros margins in the reail world. And when they scale, they just create beautiful, beautiful businesses....
We close out Season 6 with the story of perhaps the single most successful media entrepreneur of all-time: Oprah Winfrey, and her juggernaut conglomerate Harpo Studios. Born to a poor single mother in the segregated 1950's deep south, Oprah's rise from terrible adversity to wealthiest Black woman in the world ranks among the very greatest American success stories. And oh yeah — along the way she single-handedly created the entire influencer economy, rewrote the blueprint of a modern power broker, and set the world record for most cars given away at one time (276). Sit back, listen and get ready to live your best life.
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