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Monopoly
An annotated collection of 2 books on monopoly, spanning 2010 to 2014. Featuring works by Tim Wu, Peter Thiel & Blake Masters — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu, 2010 · Alfred A. Knopf
Every communications medium follows a cycle: it is born open and decentralised, matures, and ends up concentrating into monopolies or oligopolies. The telephone, radio, television, cinema — all followed the same pattern.…
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel & Blake Masters, 2014 · Crown Business
Thiel's argument is simple and polarising: genuinely new companies create monopolies by doing something no one else is doing, and "competition" in the conventional sense is a sign that everyone is copying each other. The…