We tend to think of harvesting as something incumbent businesses do at end of lifespan, often after PE turnarounds, but...
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... many new economy corps (Uber, Amazon, Netflix, iTunes) harvest end-of-life markets more efficiently/deeply than corps that created them
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this feels really important and profound but I don't understand it -- harvesting?
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. harvesting is biz term for extracting value of residual demand in a terminal market, like DVDs after streaming or film after digital
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cause they're software based and marginal costs drop to near zero at end?
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. yes, software is fracking tech for markets that were initially developed with hardware
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