thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. The recently announced $5.3B No entity is immune to technology disruption.

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Disintermediation Aggregator China API 69

Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

Warby manages this killer combination of moderate prices and solid margins through supply chain efficiencies on the back end and on the front end picture perfect web branding and “white glove” customer service. How to emulate this great business? Very many companies have as their business model distributing / reselling, - i.e

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

That sounds like a lot of responsibility for someone fresh out of undergrad as I was then, but in reality both of these were peripheral elements of PayPal’s core web-based payment product which was still heavily concentrated on eBay auctions at the time. So not a new store of value and this is basically scenario #1 described above.

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