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Monopolies Versus Competitive Businesses
- Peter Thiel's frame: businesses fall into monopolies/near-monopolies or intensely competitive spaces.
- Avoid wasting time in brutally competitive businesses; prioritize firms with durable monopoly-like advantages.
Unexplained Edge At Rain Industries
- Rain Industries proved to be a persistent low-cost producer even though management rarely explains the edge.
- I followed it for six years and the numbers made the advantage tangible despite not knowing exactly why.
AWS Was Born From Quiet Iteration
- Amazon iterated cheaply and opened internal platform capabilities to outsiders, which birthed AWS over time.
- Keeping innovations under the radar can buy a time advantage that makes competitor catch-up very hard.