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Published · transcript-backedHamilton Helmer: recommendation
4 Apr 2023 Acquired Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business
“The first point of this conversation is that to properly assess transforming directions, the first thing is carefully understanding your current base of power, then looking at this new segment, whether as I say it could be customers, geographic, technology, whatever product, and seeing whether it relies on that as well because then, oh, boy, a world looks rosy.”
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- Hamilton Helmer
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- 4 Apr 2023
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- Acquired
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…Right. Still all the same unbelievably hard engineering problems that went into creating the car you're selling in the US, you can find a way to distribute that. Yeah, and a Chinese competitor would have to go through the same calculation. The first point of this conversation is that to properly assess transforming directions, the first thing is carefully understanding your current base of power, then looking at this new segment, whether as I say it could be customers, geographic, technology, whatever product, and seeing whether it relies on that as well because then, oh, boy, a world looks rosy. But on the other hand, if you think it does and it doesn't, it's like Uber and China. I don't know. Did they lose a billion dollars or something? I don't know what it was. Maybe more once you consider all the divestiture.…
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