Company Structure
What a company makes — and how it makes it — in indelibly tied up into how the company is structured.
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Intel is in much more danger than its profits suggest; the problems are a long time in the making, and the solution is to split up the company.
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Disney’s reorganization reinforces their integrated strategy; there is a lot to learn for anyone competing with Aggregators.
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The Windows division no longer exists at Microsoft, marking the end to a four-year process of changing Microsoft’s culture.
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A core part of what makes Apple Apple is its organization structure; Tim Cook has said it will never change. However, if Apple is serious about being a services company, change it must.
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Amazon is building a lot of businesses that look like AWS: taxes on major industries that work to everyone’s benefit. The reason, though, is that AWS is a lot like Amazon itself.
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Steve Ballmer is reorganizing Microsoft into a functional organization: it is a mistake that misunderstands the company he leads.
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XBOX Cuts; Bundling and the Internet Solvent; Transaction, Coordination, and Sunk Costs
Microsoft’s Xbox division is conducting big layoffs, as the company deals with abject failure of its Game Pass strategy.
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The State of Fable, The Jailbreak Problem, SpaceX Acquires Cursor
The administration is very likely wrong about Fable, but that is ultimately Anthropic’s responsibility.
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Google Buys Compute From SpaceX, Broadcom’s Outlook, Apple’s AI Politics
Google’s deal with SpaceX, and Broadcom’s earnings, both seem bullish for Nvidia. Then, what I’m looking for at WWDC.
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An Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella About Finding Core Competencies
An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about figuring out Microsoft’s role in AI, the relationship with OpenAI, Capex, Software, and a potential new agentic platform.
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Google I/O, World Models, I/O Spaghetti
Google I/O put AI everywhere, for better and for worse. Meanwhile, is DeepMind aligned with Google’s business objectives?
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SpaceX and Anthropic, xAI’s Two Companies, Elon Musk and SpaceXAI’s Future
The Anthropic xAI deal is shocking but not surprising: Musk should double down on serving other companies.
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An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about Google’s cloud priorities, enterprise agent platform, and Google’s integration advantage.
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John Ternus and Apple’s Hardware-Defined Future, SpaceXAI and Cursor
The elevation of John Ternus suggests that Apple’s future is about hardware differentiation; then, the SpaceX-Cursor deal makes a lot of sense.