Tech Economics
Big Tech Pays Billions to Acquire Companies, Then Systematically Destroys Them
The graveyard of promising startups swallowed by Google, Meta, and Microsoft reveals a pattern that has nothing to do with incompetence.
Tech Economics
The business models, market forces, and financial dynamics driving the tech industry.
Tech Economics
Platform Companies Don't Kill Competitors. They Make Competition Impossible.
The most powerful tech moats aren't built with better products. They're built before rivals even know a war has started.
Tech Economics
Software Subscriptions Cost More Than One-Time Purchases. The Math Is Deliberate.
Subscriptions aren't just a pricing change. They're a fundamental restructuring of who owns the relationship between software and user.
Tech Economics
Tech Companies Hire Overqualified Engineers on Purpose. Here's the Strategy Behind It.
Paying a $400K engineer to write a three-line script sounds absurd. It's actually one of tech's smartest competitive moves.
Tech Economics
Free Apps Cost More to Build Than Paid Ones. Here's Why.
The economics of 'free' software are counterintuitive and brutal. Building an app that charges nothing up front costs far more than one that doesn't.
Tech Economics
Tech Companies Pay Engineers $400K But Let Robots Answer Your Support Tickets. Here's the Math.
The wage gap between engineers and support staff isn't a bug in tech culture. It's the entire business model.
Tech Economics
Enterprise Software Costs Ten Times More Than Consumer Apps for Six Very Specific Reasons
The price gap between Slack and its enterprise tier isn't irrational. It reflects real structural costs that most buyers never see.
Tech Economics
How Spotify Built a Multi-Billion Dollar Company Selling Something That Costs Almost Nothing to Reproduce
Spotify doesn't sell music. It sells access. The economics of that distinction explain why software companies can be worth more than the industries they serve.