So what is iRobot’s bankruptcy evidence of?
Evidence that you can only coast for so long on patents. Eventually you have to get back to work and provide value to customers.
Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny
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That if Amazon acquired it, this would enable it to horizontally integrate and take control of yet another market? This, eventually, woudl lead to lower prices for consumers...
> This, eventually, woudl lead to lower prices for consumers... What incentive would Amazon have to drop prices after vertical integration is done?
Economies of scope are the common claim.
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> This, eventually, woudl lead to lower prices for consumers... What incentive would Amazon have to drop prices after vertical integration is done?
Economies of scope are the common claim.
No, that's what lowers Amazon's costs.
Why would Amazon, having lowered their costs, pass that savings on to the consumer when they could simply profit more?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The essay (literally, a homework assignment she did at law school) for which she became famous that criticizes Amazon for being big is so chock full of errors, misconstructions and faulty logic, that it's an indictment of some really poor political habits and instincts that the US is prone to. source?
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.p... She got boosted by an insurgent group of law professors who spearhead whats called the Neobrandeis moment. Their theory is that anti-trust should be preemptively enforced against size for its own sake. This is the article she wrote for her law review as a law student which put her on their radar and they started calling her a "rising star" etc etc, which…
Performative and ineffective but somehow actually deterred a lot of M&A? How does that make sense?
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#26Love the FTC getting to decide if you’re permitted to sell your startup or forced to deliver more shareholder value.
Re: Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny
#27founders would ultimately benefit from “a world in which you have six or seven or eight potential suitors” rather than “just one or two.” Real talk Lina
yep. So perhaps don’t block every potential transaction on flimsy pretense? Icing the transaction market seems like a great way to scare off potential competing acquirers in the name of social engineering.
I don’t know. All I know is that Lina is out of power, and suddenly we see an upswing in M&A. Coincidence, I’m sure.
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#28Love the FTC getting to decide if you’re permitted to sell your startup or forced to deliver more shareholder value.
As an investor that can’t invest in private companies, I love it unsarcastically.
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#29Love the FTC getting to decide if you’re permitted to sell your startup or forced to deliver more shareholder value.
If a big company in dominant position is allowed to gobble up any and all upstart competitors that's bad for competition, and it is the FTC's job to preserve competition.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The essay (literally, a homework assignment she did at law school) for which she became famous that criticizes Amazon for being big is so chock full of errors, misconstructions and faulty logic, that it's an indictment of some really poor political habits and instincts that the US is prone to. source?
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.p... She got boosted by an insurgent group of law professors who spearhead whats called the Neobrandeis moment. Their theory is that anti-trust should be preemptively enforced against size for its own sake. This is the article she wrote for her law review as a law student which put her on their radar and they started calling her a "rising star" etc etc, which…
What errors?