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Modern Monopolies

N/A, N/A, US • 5 - 9 Employees
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Modern Monopolies is a collection of resources focused on platform business models. We focus on three primary areas: the book, the podcast and the ETF (exchange traded fund). THE BOOKModern Monopolies, an Amazon Best-Seller published by Macmillan, sets the stage for platforms to be recognized as the predominant business model of this century and provides the blueprint for how to build these businesses successfully.What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share? They're platforms - a new business model that has quietly become the only game in town, creating vast fortunes for its founders while dominating everyone's daily life. A platform, by definition, creates value by facilitating an exchange between two or more interdependent groups. So, rather that making things, they simply connect people.The Internet today is awash in platforms - Facebook is responsible for nearly 25 percent of total Web visits, and the Google platform crash in 2013 took about 40 percent of Internet traffic with it. Representing the ten most trafficked sites in the U.S., platforms are also prominent over the globe; in China, they hold the top eight spots in web traffic rankings.The advent of mobile computing and its ubiquitous connectivity have forever altered how we interact with each other, melding the digital and physical worlds and blurring distinctions between "offline"​ and "online."​ These platform giants are expanding their influence from the digital world to the whole economy. Yet, few people truly grasp the radical structural shifts of the last ten years. In Modern Monopolies, Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson tell the definitive story of what has changed, what it means for businesses today, and how managers, entrepreneurs, and business owners can adapt and thrive in this new era.THE PODCASTLaunching in late 2018, the Modern Monopolies Podcast is created for a general audience, helping everyone from the Amazon consumer to public company CEOs understand how platform businesses are affecting the modern economy. Over the last 20 years, platform businesses as an asset class have historically outperformed the broader market, and even the broader tech market. These Modern Monopolies operate at a massive scale and are highly defensible. In Season 1, we talk with CEO's of multi-billion dollar org's about a wide range of topics including how to disrupt yourself with new platform businesses, how to systematize enterprise business model innovation and how to think about regulating modern monopolies like Amazon, Facebook and Google.THE ETFLaunching in late 2018, this is a thematic rules based exchange traded fund that solely holds public platform companies.